N: ≥70,000 words

K is simply doing an amazing job at writing for this blog.  I mean, yes we share it ,but as you can see with all the “K: this and that” or “K: the other thing, ” the ratio of my writing to her writing is in favor of her.  Many have heard the proverb  pertaining to a picture is worth a thousand words.  There is (a perhaps) phony Chinese proverb that says that a picture is worth 10 thousand words.  I truly don’t believe either one.  Every time I add pictures to my grad papers, the prof never gives me credit in the word count.

The banner has changed (thanks again to CreatureBug) to a more festive appearing banner.  The picture was taken in China for K’s birthday the first year we were here.  Don’t we look WAY young in the picture?  Transliterated has been added to our China Ddots.  The friend behind the writing lives in what he calls “the Cleveland of China” and we think he has some good stuff to say.  I also included some pictures  below with captions that may or may not be next to the picture.  They are close though.  Click on them to see the larger image.

Waiting for something at my cousins wedding this past summer.

Family Frame.  We finally got some pictures up of family.  We got them in a large frame in our livingroom right before we had the thanksgiving party.

I volunteered to cook one of the turkeys.  I felt that it would cook much better, which it did, if I cut it in half.  Luckily, I had my “knife for cutting bones.”
The most creative box sender award goes to Claire.
For our weekly team “men’s night” we went bowling.
Talking and teaching.
A message board on campus.  We mostly just look at it and say stuff like “look at all the pretty colors” and “oh! oh! oh! I know I what this sentence means!”