| Fri oct 18 Attention people that we know and love: I am thinking that I should answer some questions about our time in Kingcome. So here we go: 1.) No 2.) Yes 3.) Not so much 4.) In Canada, not in South America 5.) No 6.) Because she said so, and 7.) Steve Martin. Turkey overflow: So our Thanksgiving was great how was yours? Oh, we're in Canada, that's right. We had Thanksgiving last Monday with 2, count 'em, 2 (two) invitations to eat turkey dinners. So we gorged on Sunday AND Monday. Kristin was swimming in gravy-filled happiness. We even watched part of the Thanksgiving day parade in Toronto on TV (Canadian copy-cats...). During the parade, a group of causasians from Philadelphia was on dressed like, how can I say this, "Indians" and I mean like the long, feathery head dress "hi-ya, hi-ya, hi-ya" stereotype. And we're sitting next to First Nations people watching this. What do we say? "Oh, that's nice! Your culture on TV!" or "Oh, how repulsive!" We didn't say anything, but neither did our hosts. "The only thing worse than Indians on TV is Indians watching Indians on TV." Quasimodo(s): So last week Nicole got a bug bite on the center of her forehead and over the course of 2-3 days it swelled quite extremely, even into a pillowy mass over the bridge of her nose. Her eyes were somewhat forced shut from the swelling, just a little though. So with her bandaged chin (still) and her puffy eyes and head, she looked like Sylvester Stallone in that last scene in "Rocky." We are now hand-screening shirts that say, "Even though it looks like it, we do not physically abuse our child." Funny thing is, I got the same bug bite - in the same spot this morning. Oh no, here comes the puff... Who's hunting who?: I got the chance to go hunting last weekend with a guy here. We went down river to the flats looking for geese, but we went home with only 1 duck that the other guy shot and cooked for dinner. While we were walking around quietly, guns in hand, we had to keep our eyes open for 6 bears off in the distance and watch out for wolves. It's an odd feeling hunting while possibly being hunted. I imagine it's minutely similar to ground war. I don't like that feeling. But it's relieving to know that there are not animals at a headquarters planning a raid attack on us as we walked around. They just live their lives, walking and looking for food. Maybe they'll just put us on sanctions instead. unless they're part of an oil-rich family from Texas...... Kristin said to include this from her: I am so proud of ourselves because we barely make any garbage. We have about 1 plastic grocery bag worth of garbage per month. We do this by buying baking and cooking foods, not processed or ready made food, and by reusing everything. The food scraps that we make are burned. And we avoid plastic like the bubonic plague. I have learned quickly here about living like this. I really like it and feel like I am doing something useful for the health of planet earth! Recipes for the Exiled: Toothpaste: 3 parts baking soda, 1 part salt, a few drops peppermint essential oil or a few capfuls of peppermint extract. Bath Salts: Save fruit, green, or black tea bags. Dry them out by dumping tea leaves on a piece of paper. Mix dry leaves with salt - regular salt or sea salt, 1 tea bag to about 6 tbsp of salt. More or less tea depending on how often you want to clean the bathtub. The quotable Nicole: "When will we be able to go to the zed-oh-oh [zoo]?" This exhibits Nicole's fascination with the Canadian pronunciation of Z, which is "zed." "Can we have some P-i-zed-zed-a?" She also really likes the word mum. When she read it in a Canadian book one day and figured out what it meant, she said it over and over and over and over... ...... She still calls Kristin mom though. |