New Science Project

The caterpillar has already escaped.
So then we found two jing-jook eggs (jing-jook are the small pink geckos that run up and down the walls and ceilings at night, eating bugs).
We carefully placed the eggs in the middle of the kitchen table where nothing could happen to them so we could hopefully watch them hatch.
The next day there was only one.
Doug admitted (only after Mali threatened to tell on him) that he sort of accidentally broke one of the eggs. Perhaps a dubious claim considering it was smashed against the wall.
Mali is always ready to tell on her brother. We figure she will end up being a cop.

Science Project

Hi Grandma,
We are working on a project. We have a caterpillar and we want to turn it into a butterfly. We found out it doesn't like taking a bath and it won't eat fish.

Tuesday May 22

So we went to the zoo on Sunday. Mali has a lifetime membership which allows all of us free entry year round here in Chiang Mai and to several other zoos and parks around the country. All the animal and they got the most excited by a little frog on the path (see photo below).

Mom added another staff person to her coffee business recently. The new gal will hopefully be able to learn how to run the roaster, at least for the regular orders.

Congrats to cousin Geoff who will receive his PhD in Archeology from Yale on May 28. Geoff has been doing a lot of groundbreaking work in China.

This here is a place to put the stuff that other folks, like Grandmas and Grandpas might want to see. It will be a lot easier for us to post stuff from time to time to one web site rather than e mailing to you and having our messages get bounced by your servers (Jamie/Juergen!).

The rainy season started the other day and now we have tadpoles and frogs all over the place, which is good, because we also have a lot of mosquitos that need to be eaten. It rains pretty much every day.