Our House Archive

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

How Not to Spend Your First Winter in Korea

Lesson #1: Don’t run out of heating oil! It’s snowing…still…again…still…again…take your pick. As I wrote yesterday’s post the snow continued to fall – big white fluffy chunks. We wound-up getting about 6 – 8 more inches and it’s falling again this morning. But we also looked up to see a great big FLASHING 03 on our [...]

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Eric Make Fire

The Firewood Fairy came on Friday. Bundles of wood for our wood-burning fireplace….a rarity in off-post living. At home buying a bundle of wood means it’s essentially shrink-wrapped in clear plastic & all the dust, dirt & splinters fall out from the ends when you go to pick it up. Here it’s a different story. [...]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Our Morning Went Like This

HEY MOOCH! “What?” Guess what day it is!?! “Ahh…Give the dog your breakfast sausage day?” No silly…It’s Chuseok! “What?” Chuseok! Korean Thanksgiving?!… “Oh…well, that’s lovely. Enjoy that. I’m just gonna go take a nap.” C’mon, dogger…we got stuff  to do! “No, no…I don’t wanna get up. Go get Daddy to help.” I can’t – he’s [...]