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I don’t know if Derique is shedding more, or it I am sweeping less, but there is A LOT of dog hair in my home. Gross. He’s lucky I like him, otherwise I would kick him out. That, and he made doggie-doors for himself. He even made a doggie-door in the fence; however, he waits patiently for me to open doors for him, rather than using his own.

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Erika Kraus
2006-08-28 19:38:03

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be giving the same helping-my-friends-because-they-help-me, four-lesson English course. Maybe, hopefully, I am planning on asking that next year I can do the same thing for environmental education. I would like that much, much more, and I think my friends just really will
like having me in their school. If needed, I can add some fun English things. Gah, English!
I also just helped Patrice finish planting 8000 acacia trees. Eight thousand. We had gathered about 4000 seeds, and then another order came in a couple of weeks later for another 4000, so we had to dig up the little seedlings beneath the trees and replant them in the nursery. That was a chore. And the work continues- we still have teak trees to plant, and mango trees to graft, and a few other species to start. Lots of good dirt work. I like it.

CLAC-the Man and I just held the UNO tournament. We didn’t have as many kids as we thought we would, but most of the girls from the club were present, and a few other neighborhood friends. We held the tournament the first Wednesday of Easter break, so I think there were quite a few other options that afternoon, like basketball or ping-pong, etc. Each of the ten who played won a notebook and one blue pen and one green pen. The two winners (both from the girls’ club, which kind of annoyed CLAC-the Man, bwa ha won a brand-new package of UNO too. We had a good time.

My dear friends called me at 3h. Yes, that is three o’clock in the morning. But, I talked to Nancy, Kate, Chrissy, and brand-new Clare! All at the same time! We talked for a good bit about memories, but also about what was going on at the moment, like, that Clare was sleeping and so was I. Also, that with the rain, my toes were kind of cold at night. Lovely.

Along with memories, I was thinking of the turkey story from last years’ Discovery Day at good ol’ Benedictine College. If you are not familiar with the story, ...