Dal-eeke Dal-low-la

                 
 I'm always fascinated on shopping day when a full sheep carcass is brought into the shelter and cut up into usable portions. Today I learned some new things while watching Owndra chop up the sheep. She explained that the tail fat is used as baby lotion. And the shoulder bones are special. They are called dal (meaning 70) After boiling, the triangular shaped pieces are set aside. Then Dad in a common ceremony distributes tasty tidbits to the children piece by piece. This process is called Dalike Dalowla All the other bones are placed in a bowl and everyone chomps on whatever they'd like.

Weather Lag

Dry out the webbed feet. Be reminded of what the sun looks like. Warm up and have some fun. Winter vacations to warm places, for PNW-erners, are soothing respites from chilling rain and cloudy skies.
We've been transplanted to the dry, Siberian, polluted cold of UB.
We looked forward to getting out of winter for a spell in order to warm our bones, moisten our skin, clean out our lungs, and enjoy being together. For 2 weeks in December we were able to do those things in Taiwan.


But coming back is quite a transition. The -30s feels numbing.  Coal smoke makes us gag even while in our living room. And Jim turns into Jack Frost on his 10 minute walk to work.
Mongolians hunker down in the winter. They tend not to make changes in the coldest months. Its all about surviving. We're surviving but still in weather-lag after a great time of rest & fellowship with other Covenant folk in a land of shorts & sun glasses.