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Today we are in the middle of the first decent snow storm of the winter. We have had close to a foot of snow already and there is more in the forecast tonight. We spent much of day out in the snow, plowing, shoveling, and playing. The Horses enjoyed the snow for a while, but [...]
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This log was written by Austin while we were traveling in China. He took the pictures, did all of the writing, and made all of the posts all on his own. It has been migrated from a previous web site, so the format has changed but the content is all here. Travel log of our [...]
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This article describes our trip to China to pick up our daughter, Ariana. We updated it regularly throughout our trip. I have moved the content from it’s original format into WordPress, so it isn’t in the same daily post update format that it originally was, but the content is all here. Trip Itinerary We leave [...]
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Some information about Ariana’s birthplace. Meaning of the name “Lake South”, from its position south of Lake Dongting. Hunan is sometimes called “Xiang” for short, after the Xiangjiang River which runs through the province. Population 63,000,000 million people live in Hunan, 95% of whom are Han Chinese, with the rest belonging to the Miao, Tujia, [...]
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3 Jan 2006 We just got back from the CAWLI offices where we signed the referral paperwork and received medical information and pictures. Ariana’s Chinese name is Zhao Hong Tao – her given name is Hong Tao (红涛), and Zhao is the family name of the director of the orphanage. “Hong” means “red”, and “Tao” [...]