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My friend and neighbor Mary Cinadr has gotten an article published on the Boston Globe’s website. Want to check it out? She’s one of Peace Corps’ beekeeping volunteers, and she’s done awesome work with africanized “killer” bees.

Above, the girl who cat sits for me. A while back, she put on a full-on wedding for her tom cat and my cat. It involved a twenty kid guest list, snacks, marriage certificates, costumery, and scrap-lumber pews assembled on my front porch. The marriage, unfortunately, has been on the rocks lately. But maybe they’ll put it back together - I’m giving both my cats to this family when I leave. 

The Guaraní word of the day is akeké, meaning leaf cutter ant. Which are really cool to watch at work, provided they’re not working on your garden. They like basil.

Not much news.

Wanna see some pictures?

From back: me, Mitra, Nina, Anita, Charlotte, and Barbara.

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Danita feeds a puppy

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Liam Winters and Rachel Newby - oenophiles nonpareil

The Guaraní word of the day is vai vai, meaning “not well” or “poorly”.
- ¿Reñe’é Guaraníme? (”Do you speak Guaraní?”)
- Vai vai. (”After two years, I can understand basic phrases and pick the key grammar structures out of some sentences, but I can’t speak it worth anything. Although I am sure that your dirty old man of a grandfather just said something really nasty to me by the way he’s looking at me and snickering behind his hand.”)

If you use the word vai just the once, it’s an adjective meaning “plain” or “ugly”.