Saturday, November 12, 2016

Chickens

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Chickens!   Pet Chickens! We got three baby Easter-Egger Chickens (they usually lay blue or green eggs) from the U District Grange in Sep...

Veteran's Day 2016

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Veteran's Day 2016.  We've had some wonderful fall days, lots of rain but also plenty of sunny days.  The nicest this weekend was F...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving 2015

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This morning, we participated in the Turkey Trot to raise money for the Ballard Food Bank.  It's an awesom...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Reverse culture shock

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Last month, I was in the US for the first time in 11 months, for the graduation of my students Brian Burg and Kıvanç Muşlu . When I first...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Pucón, Chile

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We spent a week in February in Pucon, Chile, with friends.  Pucon is a lovely town, very touristy and busy in town in February, but surroun...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Around Bariloche, Feb. 2015

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We spent a week in early February in Bariloche.  As in much of our travels, we rented a house in town and then did day trips.  Our house, fr...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

More fossils and birds

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Our next to last day in El Califate, we took another day trip to look at fossils.  This was another package tour, catchily named the Bosque...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Uppsala Glacier and Estancia Cristina

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One very long day in January 2015, we did a day trip from El Califate to Estancia Cristina. We took a  fast catamaran from the port outside...