Feb 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Jacob and Tess work to solve a mystery. It was a mystery to Jeanne and me in any case. We tried to understand the story they constructed around bits of bone and broken pottery they found in the garden, but their theories quickly became too complicated for our less agile minds. They, however, were having fun trying to piece everything together despite their serious demeanor.
Feb 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | one comment »

Our house in Addis
The house is not as large as it looks in this photo. We have 3 medium to small sized bedrooms all on the main floorwith no inside entrance or stairs to the downstairs room where we have a washing machine. Whomever wakes up first always wakes the rest, so it is “cozy” I suppose in real estate terms.
Still we all like the house and the garden is fantastic. We are happy to be settling in. Our air-shipment of linens and Christmas presents for the kids finally cleared customs after more than two months of sitting around, and so we opened presents and had ourselves a merry little “material Christmas” complete with a tree that arrived in the box.