Weekly Round-Up

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Sometime early this morning, Spring arrived. Finally, the air is warm, the trees are blossoming, the birds are chirping. Welcome Spring! Where have you been?

With the arrival of warmer weather over the last few weeks, we started to experience the great household temperature inversion – that period of time when the Chinese apartment suddenly feels like a meat locker in comparison with the outside temperatures (damn those thick concrete walls.) This leads to serious dressing blunders on early Spring mornings. I often find myself bundled up in a sweater, jacket and scarf only to find it is sunny and warm outside. Which is, of course, what happened this morning.

As we walked through our apartment complex to a waiting gypsy cab, the DH and I saw the definitive sign of the change of seasons – a few light cotton balls floating through the air. Not real cotton balls, but puffs of tree fluff, as this Global Times article calls them. The fluff comes from willow and poplar trees and will soon coat the ground. The tree fluff is only getting started, so I didn’t bother to take pictures. Next week, the sidewalks and gutters will be full of the fluff. It will look like snow. Thank god I don’t have allergies or asthma.

Another thing we noticed on our walk – our apartment courtyard is ground zero for toddlers and grandmas on a sunny 10AM weekday morning. I feel a little bit bad that one toddler, who was apparently taking his first steps, fell flat on his face when he spotted us laowai.

You may have noticed my BIG announcement banner (above). I’m very excited about the BIG news. I will be sharing that news when everything is official, signed and stamped, hopefully later this week. The BIG news is all I’ve been thinking about this past week, really, so I don’t have too much more to share.

So I lied, I have been thinking about another wee thing, this here blog. I’ve been tweaking a new theme so you will see some changes here. And one thing I can’t quite figure out is an addition I am trying to make to the sidebar. So PLEASE ignore that strange orangish box to the left. It’s just there as an experiment and should be either going away or looking better soon.

That’s it for me – thinking about my future an fiddling with the blog. (Don’t expect too much real posting here this week, I’m just too experimental.) Exciting times. Have a great week!

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