birthday shout out

This post is dedicated to our friend Nick.  Happy Birthday!  Glad you finally got those White Power Ranger gloves....We love you and are thankful for your friendship.

--da

Fail...

KM Trip

After Thanksgiving, Logan and I, along w/ another friend, took a few days vacation to relax in KM.  We took a sleeper bus (which despite the bad rap it has gotten before, we thought it was the way to travel if you have to go by bus), and arrived around 8 am Sunday morning.  We spent Sunday eating Papa John's, exploring, and enjoying Charlie Brown Cafe--which provided free wireless and a strong americano.  Monday we enjoyed a trip to a fake IKEA...literally, it is like they robbed an IKEA truck and stocked their store.  Or maybe it is IKEA rejects, or maybe they just took a camera into an IKEA and took pictures and then copied it all.  I don't know.  Regardless, Logan did buy our bedspread from an IKEA, and we saw the same bedspread pattern at the fake IKEA.  It was an enjoyable experience, and we bought some fun stuff.  Don't you love this red couch, Mom?  (Unfortunately, we didn't buy it.)

That afternoon we met up w/ our friend Greg Lavo, who was making a trip through our part of the world and was able to swing a few days to hang out w/ us.  He and one of his friends traveling w/ him spent about a day and a half w/ us.  We drug them around to western food restaurants, the bookstores, and this park where you can feed the seagulls...did I mention we are pretty landlocked here?  I guess they imported seagulls.  We fed the birds and then later that day had some great Indian food.  Here's a picture of me and Greg at the park.

We headed back home to our city Wednesday evening, of course, not after about a 30 minute delay.  Which is actually not that bad.  It was good to hang out in a different city for a few days, buy a few things we can't get here, and see our friend.  One more picture of the four of us together...at 7 AM, not such a pretty sight.

--da

Happy Late Thanksgiving!

Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving.  This post is late (naturally), but we do hope you all had a good Thanksgiving, and we wish you a Merry Christmas too!

--da

A face mask? Are you serious?

So, I am finally sick. Not serious sick, but just sinus infection sick. Which is abnormal for me...since I usually have one every month during winter. However, since it isn't really winter here...I've been good. Regardless, this is all background for my story:

After lunch, I went to the pharmacy close to our house and asked if they had amoxicillin. The pharmacist lady replied that they did, and handed me a box of 16 tablets. Great! She asked then if I had taken it before, or literally "before eaten?" Of course, I told her....in America. I asked her how often to take it, she told me, and then she asked what my sickness was. Not knowing the words for either sinus or infection, I told her I had a cold. She looked at me like I was crazy for taking an antibiotic for a cold. (Which surprised me b/c most people here will go get an IV for a backache...) I then looked up the word for infection and told her I had an infection in my nose. (I mean..that's pretty much right.) Her eyes got wide. At this point, another lady in the store asked if my throat hurt. Yes, a little I said, but not too bad. The pharmacist then pulled out a face mask and tried to sell it to me! Not wanting to be forced to buy a face mask and wear it, I played down my illness and insisted that I didn't have H1N1, it wasn't serious, just a cold. The other lady asked if I had a fever. Of course I don't, I replied. Having seemed to quiet their fears that I was going to spread some terrible disease all over the city, I paid for my antibiotic, and then was asked if I wanted Chinese medicine. No thanks, I replied. I thanked them for their help, and headed home.

--da

Market Time!

Enjoy!

The Heinrichs at Market from Nitro on Vimeo.

Pretty much everywhere.....

....its gonna be hot.

I love this youtube video.  It has been around for awhile, but it makes me laugh every time.  If it doesn't make you laugh, then watch it about 10 times in a row.  I promise (or I hope), it will eventually be hilarious to you as well.  What makes it greater for me...is that for us it is an accurate forecast...pretty close at least.

Enjoy.

--da

We glorify God by...

“We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted together his glory and our good. What an encouragement is this to the service of God, to think, while I am hearing and praying, I am glorifying God; while I am furthering my own glory in heaven, I am increasing God’s glory.

Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, You will honour and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as much gold for yourself as you can carry away? So, for God to say, Go to the ordinances, get as much grace as you can, dig out as much salvation as you can; and the more happiness you have, the more I shall count myself glorified.”

—Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1997), 13-14

A daily post from Of First Importance. 11.4.2009

The Biodiversity of XSBN

One of the cool things about where we are currently living is that most of the biodiversity within CHN is found in our prefecture (aka county). Most of the cash crops in this area are tropical in nature, mostly consisting of Banana and Rubber Trees.

If you knew me at all during my years in undergrad you might remember me throwing out a scientific plant name every once in a while, as a good portion of my education consisted in memorizing Latin plant names.

I was browsing the internet a few days ago and found a variety of passion flower that is named after our prefecture (Xishuangbanna). I though it was cool.

Meet Passiflora xishuangbannaensis

Stalagmites and Stalactites

Today Daryl-Ann was doing a little routine cleaning around the house and noticed the bathtub had brown, standing water in it. I looked around and found little droplets of water hanging from our ceiling tiles. I removed one tile so I could look up into the ceiling and see if I could find a leak. It does look like we have a leak, but I also found a science project waiting to happen.

We found stalagmites and stalactites suspended from our bathroom ceiling, and I think its pretty cool.

Dai BBQ... The Ultimate Eating Expierence

Here are some pictures of tonight's eating experience. Delicious. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Don't worry we didn't eat the brain. And yes that pineapple is a delicious phenomenon called pineapple rice. Sweet and delicious. In the picture above DA is munching on some beef kabobs.

Thank You Better Homes and Gardens......

I recently started checking out Better Homes and Gardens website.  They have got some great cookie recipes right now for the holidays.  I tried this one out tonight....yum!  Pretty tasty, and in the shape of TEXAS!  Try them out...

Pumpkin-Spiced Sugar Cookies

Ingredients
1 17.5-ounce package sugar cookie mix
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 egg
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Browned Butter Icing--below
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine dry cookie mix, butter, egg, pumpkin pie spice, and nutmeg. Stir with a wooden spoon until a stiff dough forms; if necessary, knead to combine.

2. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Using a 1-1/2- to 2-1/2-inch cookie cutter, cut out dough. Re-roll trimmings and repeat cutting dough. Arrange cutouts 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

3. Bake in preheated oven about 8 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Transfer to a wire rack; cool. Drizzle with Brown Butter Icing. Makes 36 large cookies or 72 small cookies.

Brown Butter Icing: In a small saucepan, heat 2 tablespoons butter over low heat about 15 minutes or until browned (be careful not to burn). Remove from heat. Stir in 2 cups powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Immediately drizzle over cooled cookies (icing will harden quickly).

TO STORE: Place cookies in a a single layer in an airtight container; cover. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

The Legend Behind the Name

About a month after arriving in China DA and myself had a teacher who put a lot of work into giving us good, authentic Chinese names. When it comes to the Chinese naming system there are two things that matter most. The first is its meaning, and the second is it sound. So our teacher gave Daryl-Ann and I a list of about 5-9 names to choose from. Daryl-Ann did not like any of them and was nameless for another month or so, while I choose the last one on the list. The name was Luo Wen Feng (罗文峰). Luo being the family name, and Wen Feng being the meaning. Wen Feng can be broken down into its individual components. Wen 文 means language or literature, and Feng 峰 means mountain top. So all together I thought my name fit me well enough.

Then we got another teacher who thought Luo Wen Feng was too much of a mouthful and told me that simply Luo Wen sounded better. I like this lady a whole lot and figured that she would not lead me astray so I made the mental shift to drop Feng from the end of my name. From that day forward I introduced myself as Luo Wen.

Now over the next few weeks I have met numerous people who act really surprised when I tell them my name is Luo Wen. Come to find out there is a very famous canto-pop (pop-singer from Hong Kong, they speak Cantonese rather than Mandarin) singer named Luo Wen (English name Roman Tam) who was very popular back in the 70's and 80's. He is regarded the godfather of the genera cantopop. He died back in 2002. So I decided to give my predecessor a tribute by playing one of his songs right here on the blog. I hope you enjoy this rocking pop balled entitled 长城谣 (Great Wall Balled, literal translation). Its a tearjerker.

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If it doesn't work try this.

Experimenting

As you may be able to tell. I am doing my best to learn about how to use this silly blogging program, which in my opinion is not very intuitive. I am trying to figure out the best way to upload pictures, arrange pictures, etc.

Here are some pictures I took over the summer at botanical garden next to our university.

Good article on China

If your interested in this sort of thing. I skimmed it and it seemed pretty good. Here.

The Wingfeather Saga

Sometimes when a really good book or sermon comes a long I like to recommend it to all our readers. Today I am warmly recommending to you  a series that one of my favorite musical artists, Andrew Peterson, began a few years ago.

The first book is called On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, and I just finished it about a month ago. It is like Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia in that it can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It seems like it was written with all ages in mind. Anyways, it was a really gripping story that to my delight was not cheesy (I confess I half expected it to be). You can read more about it here.

The second book that was just released is called North! Or be Eaten, and I have yet to read it as getting these kinds of books in China is not easy (thanks to my mother-in-law who faithfully makes possible what would otherwise be impossible through frequent care-packaging), but based on all the reviews I have read I expect it to be just as enjoyable as its predecessor. More about it here.


So if you feel like you need to put down your heavy works in theology for a while and just straight up enjoy a gripping tale, it comes with my highest recommendation. I think it would also be a good series for family reading for those of you who have older kids (7-10). It can be pretty intense at times. I expect nightmares are still a reality as they were in my younger day.

DA seconds my recommendation.

LH

Fall Line Up

(I am pretty sure I wrote about this last year.)

Regardless of the fact that it is STILL HOT here.....and I don't think it is going to get any cooler any time soon (maybe for 2 weeks in December), I have found myself listening to Sara Groves and Andrew Peterson more and more. These two artists happen to be on my "fall line up" of music. I don't know why...it just means fall is here when I start listening to both of them more frequently. (Even though fall is not here by any means of a change in temperature...or a change in leaf color...or football....or the ability to drink hot chocolate w/o breaking out into a sweat....)

Anyways...do you have a band/artist/style of music that you swing towards when the seasons change (other than Christmas music, which would be an obvious one)? Feel free to comment.

--da

Mexican Food Night!

First of all, forgive the blurry pictures...not for sure what the deal is, but I just want to post and not worry about it.

Anyways, last Friday night we had the privilege of hosting two friends for Mexican food night. It was a delight, both the food, and the company. Here we've got homemade tortillas, homemade chips, homemade salsa, ground beef, and yummy Velveeta/Rotel. Our friends seemed to really enjoy everything but the cheese...but, I mean it is kind of foreign, I can't really blame them.

Here we are, about to enjoy dinner....it was interesting trying to explain that most of the words we were using to describe the food were Spanish, not English. (Burrito, taco, queso, tortilla.....)

After dinner....we chatted, Logan played a little mandolin for us, and we attempted to explain both Chinese and American humor. Much was simply lost in translation, although I did find it interesting that many jokes are centered around a play on words....you just have to know the words to get the joke.

--da

p.s. thanks to my friend julie who sent the rotel and velveeta! and thanks to my mom who taught me how to make tortillas when i was in junior high!

Chinese humor... demonstrated (cont.)

Okay I got my five guesses and I hope that everyone has been put on the edge of their chair in anticipation for this little taste of Chinese humor. If you don't know what I am talking about stop reading immediately and scroll down to two posts ago and you will see a Chinese joke/riddle. Then come back and read the answer.

So, what did the man say to the wolf that made him blow out the candle?.... 'Happy Birthday!'


I hope you are as disappointed as I was. I did my best to embellish this joke and make it sound as paramount as I possible could.

Just a little taste of the kind of humor I am surrounded with. What about wit and sarcasm, you may ask. Well so far my experience has shown me that the best way to get a Chinese person to chuckle is just straight up cheesiness. The more cynical approaches to humor don't communicate well, and usually result is lengthy explanations that completely destroy punch lines or quick witted one liners. Oh well, I think I have my fair share of cheesiness to go around.

LH

This post is officially dedicated to my Dad....a few pictures of the crazy things we see, often times not understanding at all why the way it is, is, well, the way it is.

I'm not sure if this truck died, got stuck, or just wouldn't technically go in reverse, but it was blocking the road, and all of these men were trying to push it back out of the way so that all those buses/trucks behind it, and all the cars in front of it, including our bus, could get through.

Along the way to a town Logan and I visited, we experienced some massive road construction.  It is like they said, "Let's just tear out the whole road all at once, but still let cars go through."  It took us 7 hours to get to a place that maybe should have taken 3.5 hours.  Anyways, here is a truck on the side of a mountain.  Literally, the side of the cliff was almost perpendicular to the ground, and this truck was doing something, but I don't know what.

I absolutely love electrical work here!  In this smaller village,                                   I think every house was wired to this box.

Here are three pictures of random ways to install things around the house.  The first one w/ the curtains is one Logan did....took some zip ties, a piece of some kind of electrical cord, and some nails, and hung some curtains to separate our kitchen from where I dry laundry.

Next, we've got probably one of the most dangerous (in my mind) ways of obtaining hot water.  This was our bathroom in YX, where we spent about 6 weeks studying.  Here, you can see there is a hot water heater installed in the bathroom, which was great, but the outlet for power for the heater was across on the other side of the room, where the water from the shower head could directly hit it.  I am sure that although this ranks high on the dangerous scale, no one has actually ever been hurt/killed by bad design/mixing water and electricity in the bathroom...

And last, but not least, a picture of how you install any drain pipe here.  This is our kitchen sink...it was actually broken, but a few weeks ago Logan replaced it w/ a much better one.  Regardless, the way you install a drain pipe is to buy pipe, attach it to the drain in the sink, and then stick the pipe into the hole in the floor.  Kind of gross/ridiculous/such a temporary fix in my mind, but that's how it is done.  Which, although ridiculous, made it much easier for us to install our own bathtub!  So I guess there are perks....

--da

Chinese humor... demonstrated.

A few days ago I was having a tea party with a Chinese friend (who speaks excellent English mind you) and he told me a riddle that I would like to pass on to you. After I receive 5 good guesses in the comment section, I will post the answer. So... take a stab at it and prove to us how Chinese you are.

There once was a man who was in dire need to get over a mountain. He determined that the best way to accomplish this difficult task was to climb a rope that was hanging down one of the cliff faces. Where the rope came from, he did not know. Nor did he care as he began climbing and climbing until he reached the very top and peeked over the edge of the cliff. He was startled to see a wolf holding a candle! Not only that but the wolf was gesturing to the man that he was about to burn the rope, sending this man to a most certain death. The man beckoned the wolf toward him and whispered something in his ear. The wolf immediately blew out the candle and the man was able to ascend the cliff's edge to safety. Whoo, close one...

What did the man say to the wolf that made the wolf extinguish the candle?

5 guesses then I will post the answer.

LH

my prayer for today

When You lead me to the valley of vision
I can see You in the heights
And though my humbling wouldn’t be my decision
It’s here Your glory shines so bright
So let me learn that the cross precedes the crown
To be low is to be high
That the valley’s where You make me more like Christ

Let me find Your grace in the valley
Let me find Your life in my death
Let me find Your joy in my sorrow
Your wealth in my need
That You’re near with every breath
In the valley

In the daytime there are stars in the heavens
But they only shine at night
And the deeper that I go into darkness
The more I see their radiant light
So let me learn that my losses are my gain
To be broken is to heal
That the valley’s where Your power is revealed

Words and music by Bob Kauflin
As recorded on Valley of Vision

Roots

A few weeks ago I had to opportunity to go work along side some westerners who have coffee farms in our area. I was very eager to do this for a number of reasons. 1. We are hoping to eventually do something similar for long term access to village life, 2. Farming here has hardly changed at all for hundreds of years and I wanted to try my hand at it, and 3. I love coffee and I love growing things. This all makes for a pretty fun and intense couple of days




Here is the view of the village from where one of the fields was. It took roughly an hour to hike to this plot.


If you notice where the vegetation meets the bare spot, that is the ridge we climed to get to the field. It was just on the other side of this ridge.



The village.

Village from road.



Here is the first part of our journey to one of the fields. Don't worry I didn't fall in.



Light hiking...



Here is a shot of one of the plots. No mountain will stop these farmers. A few months ago this was jungle.



Soy beans and coffee plants. The soy fixes nitrogen into the soil



I have heard it said that you can tell the quality of a gardener by the simplicity of his tools. This was the tool of choice for pretty much everything. We had a few hoes as well.

"Choosing Thomas"

If you keep up w/ the same blogs that we do, you may have already seen this video.  If not, I encourage you to watch it.  I think it was the saddest thing I have seen in a long time, if not ever.  But I also think it is worth passing along....

--da

Spiritual Depression Sermons

I just received an email from MLJ Trust announcing that they are going to begin broadcasting the late Dr. Martyn Llyod-Jones' sermon series entitled Spiritual Depression.

I am passing this information on to you because I read the book earlier this year that was birthed out of this sermon series and found it extremely helpful in seeing myself rightly in light of the Scriptures and the daily struggles we all as believers face. Daryl-Ann is reading the book right now and would echo my appreciation for this man's work.

Here is the website where you can download the 30 min. weekly broadcast, and I expect for the series to go on for a few months.

I highly commend this to you.

First real dinner....

So...on Thursday I went to the market w/ a friend and learned how to buy meat.  Believe me, it isn't like United, Wal-Mart, or any of your other favorite grocery stores.  The market itself is quite an experience, and I'll post some pictures of that at some point...I love buying super fresh, super cheap vegetables (like 2 cucumbers for 15 cents, but the meat section of the market can "gross one out."  The floor is often a bit slippery too due to butchering, etc, and so that just adds to the experience by making me terrified that I'm going to slip, knock over a table of meat, and have the big piles of fat fall on top of my head.  Oh well, I digress.......

Anyways, my friend and I "reserved" what we thought would be comparable to pork chops, and I went back the next day to pick them up.  (FYI:  you usually don't have to reserve meat, this was just a special case.)  Anyways, I went to pick them up and paid for them...and then came home w/ mainly a bag full of worthless (in my standard) meat.  However, I took this:

away from the "good" meat, and got this:
and then turned it into this, pork chops w/ apples and walnuts, with sides of mashed potatoes and a fresh salad w/ ranch:
YUM-O!!!!!!!  Logan clearly loved our dinner!  It was pretty tasty, and even though it was a little bit more work here than in the states, we really enjoyed having a meal at home.  Tomorrow, I'm trying my hand at a breakfast casserole and some pumpkin-apple muffins for breakfast w/ some friends.  And then, dinner has honey oven-baked chicken on the menu.  I will let you know how it goes.  

--da

Can You Help Me?...Obviously Not

Today I was coming up our stairs to change clothes so that I could go help paint a friend's house.  When I reached the 3rd floor, I saw a man standing there, just kind of looking down into the square of restaurants and shops.  I stopped at the stairway and tried (again) to read the notice posted on the gate....and then I got the great idea to ask the man to help me read the sign.  I asked politely, "Excuse me, can you help me read this?"  He just kind of looked at me.  So I repeated, "Can you help me read this.  I can't understand it."  (Which isn't entirely true, I can read enough to know it has to do w/ paying the water/electric fees, but I wanted to know if it was polite notice to pay by a certain day, or more of a demand, or whatever.)  He shook his head "no" at me in an emphatic way, and I asked, "Why?"  To which he just continued to shake his head.  I sighed and made my way home.  

I'm not for sure why he wouldn't help me.....Even now, I'm still more confused than exasperated.  

--da

Countryside Pics

老人车

Today I tried my hand at driving a 老人车 (Old Person Car... literal translation) and to my disdain proved myself not to be an adequate driver of this three-wheel scooter that belongs to my supervisor's wife.

Here is the story... I was sitting at my supervisor's house when my friend Nick called asking our supervisor's wife is some one can come pick him up at the apartment's front gate because he has recently hurt his ankle and is on crutches. I willfully volunteered to drive her 老人车 and pick up Nick having never received any instruction on how it drives. Eban and I (Supervisor's oldest) jumped into the scooter and went on our way. Keep in mind we are in an apartment complex where no one drives over 5 mph. Before we even got to the end of the aisle where their apartment is located a car began to turn in and stopped in the middle of the street to let me pass. The path between the car and the curb was indeed narrow, but after trying the hand brakes and not slowing down at all I decided to commit (or should I say the scooter committed for me). While squeezing into this small space the scooter indeed did come to a stop... right up against this poor person's car. They backed up exposing some substantial damage to their bumper. The man jumped out of his car and was completely baffled. I looked at the scooter and seeing that it was in good shape (despite a bent fender) told the guy I will be right back and need to go pick up a friend at the front gate. I then told Eban to go get his dad and I will be right back.

Upon returning to the scene of the accident the man suggested me giving him 500 kuai (around 70 dollars) to compensate and calling it even. Knowing that it was totally my fault and delighted at how little money he wanted to fix his significantly new car (I estimate it was 300-400 dollars damage to US standards), I gave him the money and we went on our way.

I eventually learned that the hand breaks didn't work at all and that there was a foot brake that I didn't notice which is what should be used to stop the scooter.

Just one more example where I have proven myself the stupid foreigner who cant even drive a Geriatric-mobile in a 5 mph residential zone.

Another Entry on Running..Minus the Rain

Call me ridiculous, but this morning while running across a bridge that spans the MeKong, all I wanted was to be able to run like this man, minus the mustache of course.

I know, I know...ridiculous.  

--da

2 points to whoever knew who it was before having to read the caption in the picture or googling the name.  

One Long Day

Today (and yesterday) I traveled to BJ for my dental work and it proved to be quite the ordeal. First of all there was a direct flight from our current place of residence directly to BJ (good news) but it departed around 9:00 pm putting me in BJ around 1:30 AM. I deemed this undesirable since I am not too familiar with this mega city and did not want to be stranded in the middle of the night... with little language I might add. Option two, take a flight that had one layover in out provincial capital and then arrive at BJ before midnight. Deal!

Well I choose the later option which after all the delays put me in BJ around 3:00 AM. Add an hour taxi ride to that and that puts me in my hotel at 4:00 AM.

I am mainly telling you this because I made some good friends along the way and why I am thankful for the 12 hours of air travel I was able to experience.

One way a young Jewish lady heading back to Israel after many months of study in CHN. She invited me and DA to Israel where she will house us and show us around. Cool girl.

The other and perhaps more exciting acquaintance I made was the guy sitting next to me on the plain. I didn't say anything to him (my regret) until we were landing and my question was 'Ni shuo ying yu ma?' (Do you speak English) in which he replied 'keyi' (I can). I asked him if the subway was running and he told me no and this began a deep conversation. He had been visiting his mother in the hospital who is dying of cancer and he was returning to BJ to go back to work. What is crazy about this is this guy is from the province the team worked for many years prior to us joining, and even more amazing than that is that his english is great. I told him that I would pr-y for his mother and his eyes got big and he immediately asked if I was a X-ian. I told him I was and he told me he was too. So we immediately became friends and hopefully over the next few days of me being in BJ I will be able to meet with him and encourage him and he me in each of our own trying situations.

Lesson learned.... Don't hate delays

Teeth Story...Cont

As you all know last month I had to go to BeiJing to get a root canal for a tooth that was bothering me. The story goes on...

I though about not telling anyone because for some reason I am slightly embarrassed about it, but as I was walking to class last week an old crown on a different tooth popped off. The diagnosis... back to Beijing for a week. Resetting the old crown would be the simple and normal procedure for fixing this problem, but after the crown came off I noticed a hole in the top of the crown that the previous dentist (7 years ago!) made getting the crown to fit in my mouth. So what would have been as easy procedure has turned into a slightly major ordeal. I will be heading out tomorrow or the next day and will be in BeiJing for 4 to 5 days.

In the midst of all this I can not but remind myself that God is not only in control of the state of my teeth, but also the glorious reality that anything he permits his children to endure he also provides what it takes to get through it. I can recount situation after situation of God providing for me in my times of need (the biggest one being his son for my sin), and I know this will be no exception. So pr-y for DA and I as we once again will be apart for a week or so. I am actually excited for the opportunity to send 4 or 5 days in strict study, of both the Chinese language, the system of B-ddhism, and most importantly the beauties of my King. Pr-y I will make the most of it.

LH

Haircut

Logan got tired of his long hair....it was too hot.  So this was the outcome.  This first picture is kind of half way through the hair cut.

Not for the faint of heart, here is the massive amount of hair we cut off.  Kind of gross when it isn't on his head.
Ah, much cooler, but I kind of miss his long hair.  Oh well.
--da