solar bread

Albert used his solar cooker today to bake bread! It was delicious! I was so amazed. It got up to 250 degrees in there – amazing!
He’s been quite the solar cooker lately. He made roasted cha sui (BBQ Chinese pork) the other night and it was better than the oven-baked kind!
He’s made so many dishes [...]

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fires and smoke

The fires around here have been so bad that it looks overcast! I read that today there are 1,088 fires in northern California. I guess the air is considered unhealthy here. It kind of looks like we are in a light fog if you look afar. The Napa and Solano fires (which is causing most [...]

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Kind people

Sometimes one is just blown away by people’s kindness.
Our friend Glen wrote at 2 in the morning asking if our kids would like to go with his kids to a water park. So today he picked them up and took them there, treated them to a day at the park, shaved ice, and brought us [...]

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Fencing

Here are the pictures I took from Daniel’s fencing class the other day.
I am thrilled that Daniel has developed a new interest. He said this is the first sport that he has ever found interesting. He’s actually quite good – only fenced for a week and make great strides. He’s got quick reflexes and a [...]

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Time change

I just realized that my time settings were all off, on “UTC” time, whatever that is! So all the posts before today are 7 hours ahead.
Ironically my most recent post (fencing) says it was written on “Tuesday June 24″ even though today is “Monday June 23.” I updated the post and it said that it [...]

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Fires again

So it turns out the fires we saw yesterday were around Napa and Sonoma and were 10% contained as of this morning.
Here in Davis, the sky is all hazy. You can see the smoke kind of making things misty when you look far away. Probably not the best day to be out and about… plus, [...]

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Bay Area, doctor and fire

Today we went to the Bay Area and visited our relatives.
We went to visit Mommy and she had fallen down some stairs on Wednesday. I told her to go to the doctor but she wouldn’t go, so today when we saw her, her foot looked terrible – it was swollen and bruised and red was [...]

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First time babysitting

Today was the first time I got to babysit my baby nephew!
Corrie, my sister, had to take a client call, so I went to be on standby. It was supposed to be Steven’s nap time. I went over for two hours.
He slept half an hour and refused to sleep the rest of the time. So, [...]

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Hilarious post

I saw this post… it is just totally hilarious. I don’t know how people think of things like this. Apparently some people either are more creative than other people or just have more time on their hands!
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solar cooking

My husband is totally amazing. He has now created 3 solar ovens: one box, and 2 fan-like ones.

This was taken this afternoon as he was cooking dinner: beets on the left, potatoes and bratwurst on the right. It was a totally delicious dinner! The beets were really soft and sweet and potatoes and brats were [...]

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