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you think gas prices in the u.s. are high? check this out: $6.65 a gallon for diesel. no joke. you say, what?! why?! the answer: uganda is in the middle of an ongoing diesel shortage. the gist of the problem:
- uganda is landlocked.
- uganda is dependent on its coastal neighbors [...]

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we are unintentionally creating an elephant motif in our house. the long wall in the main room is covered from edge to edge with an elephant printed batik hung by a bamboo rod taken from the bamboo patch in our garden. 8 purple elephants marching left to right across our wall. there’s [...]

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we have returned from a 6-day trip to queen elizabeth national park in western uganda. it was our first time there and it did not disappoint. every day was a 6something am wake up to view game or birds or drive to the next place so i don’t have the energy just now to go [...]

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i’ve been lethargic in my reading lately. i think it has a lot to do with phil being home. i read a lot more when he’s gone, which explains why i have a new book review since i read a lot when he was in scandanavia last month.

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we’ve been together close to 7 years, living together for 3 1/2 and we’ve never lived in a place where we could truly throw a party. we do now, so yesterday we threw a going-away party for our friends chris and lindsey.

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the latest addition to the anderson bowen household is a tiny black and white cutie in the form of a 6-week old kitten that we’ve dubbed ttaano (pronounced ta-no) - luganda for 5. over the years there’ve been stray cats and dogs between uno and ttaano which accounted for 2, 3, and 4. [...]

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