Probably the best month ever or at least the biggest in terms of pictures and pages. Camille celebrated her 60th birthday, we went to Switzerland for Bob’s High School Reunion and then we toured Italy all the way down to Sicily. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO COOKIE June 4 – You don’t turn sixty every day. […]
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May, full of flowers, friends and family with perfect weather and a big trip up north (1565 driving miles) for our first glimpse of family in two years. LAST LAUGH Camille’s final moments with Stephanie in which they realized that if there were to be a book jacket photo of the two authors together,
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Spring has sprung in our neighborhood, bringing with it home grown deliciousness, our annual neighborhood Trail Crawl and another energizing edition of the Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival. To our delight Emily, Amy and Molly joined us at the festival, Trail Crawl was nourishing and unforgettable, we never ran out of asparagus all month
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We made our way happily though March, spending a lot of time outside, starting up the garden, exorcising winter with a bonfire and in general inching our way towards warmer weather in fits and starts with temperature swings from just above freezing to shorts and flip flop weather. WINTER GO AWAY Amy and
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A typical February in “El Norte” complete with cold, snow and much longing for Spring but with enough bright spots to push our happiness meters above the halfway mark. PURGE Camille began the month with the empowering activity of cleaning out the community refrigerator. Here’s the before and after. FUN IN THE BARN
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Another great month with a good balance of work and play, warm weather and cold. STARTING THE YEAR RIGHT Good friends and good food is the best way to start a new year. Check out more pictures from our annual Hoppin John Party LEETLE PITTSBORO Home to one of the 600 or
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In which we successfully locate Bob’s other childhood home in Accra, fly to Morocco, take the train to Marrakech (just like in the song!) and make our way home to North Carolina in time to celebrate the holidays. ACCRA REVISITED As planned, all four of us left Casa Kumasi for Accra on the same
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Our last impressions of Ghana in what was clearly a month of lasts; last visits, errands, rounds, meals and goodbyes. Bye bye-o Kumasi. STILL AT HOME With repatriation looming ahead, we were still able to enjoy our home. Jay views a solar eclipse using Bob’s tin foil projector. Camille, Elodie and BJ cook
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One month away from the end of our African adventure we continue plugging along with the project, the gardening and packing, making sure to take time out for friends, bird watching and running around with Eric. PLANT TOUR Bob explains the infrastructure at the site on October 8th to a group from WSUP,
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Making the best of our last months in West Africa with nine weeks to go before returning to the industrialized world, we busied ourselves this month in celebration of Bob’s 55th birthday, by working on the FS2BD project, running around the streets of Kumasi, doing a little pre-packing, working in the garden and enjoying our
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