Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Ready for Spring

It’s been cold-cold & rainy here the last couple of days.
In fact, Eric lit a fire yesterday morning & finally let it go out just before bedtime.

(I love my Fire King.)
But our backyard has become one giant mud puddle & needless to say, I’ve swept the floor eleven times today.
Earlier last week it actually got up [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Ready for HwangSa

What’s HwangSa?
Well, take a look at this satellite image from NASA.
See all the nice plumey white clouds?…Now look at the big yellow / tan one.
That’s HwangSa…Asian Dust…Yellow Sand.
Every year between February & June Korea gets sand storms blown in from the deserts of China & Mongolia.
Factor in all the pollutants from China’s not-so-regulated manfucturing system [...]

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Say Hello to…

LIBBY BLUE!
(Short for Liberty Blue)
What’s that?…
Why yes…you’re right…it doesn’t sound very Korean-ish, does it?
Well, the intention for a Korean name was there – spent the whole day flippin’ through the little Korean-English dictionary we bought.
And when that failed, we started looking up names in Korean mythology & folklore.
But I just couldn’t find a name that [...]