Fish baby-sitting service. Monica parked her goldfish here as she gets ready for a trip overseas. Pleasant upgrade from the little tilapia that used to be in this tank.
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ANOTHER LOVO
I’ve shown you the lovo (underground oven) before – but forgot to take photos after it was opened. Also, before we used store chickens. So here are a few shots of our lovo this week, that Ju made to welcome Guy and Mami (belatedly) and also to celebrate a Holy Day.
Our OWN chickens – I think Dad and Junia killed and prepped eight chickens. Turned out four of the folks we were expecting ended up not coming, so we stuck three cleaned carcasses in the freezer, and Junia lovo’ed five of them – for the 9 adults and 2 kids that were here. Half a chicken each! That’s how Fijians think!
Oh, here are those two darling children pushing a wheelbarrow … in the kitchen!
Aha – So THIS is the cooked food from the lovo, transported to the house. Some of the food. Much of it was still in the pit at this point.
Yummy, yummy. Maybe next time I’ll take clear photos of the unwrapped food on the platter – somehow my photos all turned out fuzzy this time.
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Still on a food theme: TOAD IN THE HOLE
You know, that famous British dish of sausages and pudding batter? Yeah. Now I know the inspiration for it.
That’s my creek! Yum yum!
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The PUPDATE: feature presentation for this issue
I know some of you have been wondering about Winky’s litter. So feast your eyes on a Pile of Puppies.
Austin had the great idea of naming each one and putting their pictures up for an auction. He got as far as naming them.
The boys:

Little Gogo

Little Muffin
And the girls – who were way more active and harder to get photos of:

Little Winky

Chubby Bear
I don’t think Austin will ever really get around to an auction, but if you live in Fiji and want one of them – send your bid to me!
Here is a final shot of the four of them on the move:
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A last little happy shot for the week. Our butcher’s sign.
Somebody knew all the letters that they should put in it.
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FIJIAN WORD OF THE WEEK
Keeping with the same Lovo and Toad-in-the-Hole theme –
Kana – means “eat”
Vakalevu – is literally “with big”
So Kana vakalevu means “Eat plenty.”
(I’ve been slacking on learning Fijian, but am trying to get back on task.)
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Happy week, Everybody.
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