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Catching up to April
I feel like way too much has happened to write a proper update, so I’ll post some highlights from the last month so we can catch up in one post and then *hopefully* stay up-to-date from here on out! Here goes…over the last month:We made 12 rolls of sushi at my parents’ house so they…
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Signs of Spring in Nashville!
It’s spring! It’s gardening time! Javi has been working on a hydroponic garden – more on that later – and we both spent some time recently sprucing up the vegetable garden and getting it ready for spring. This included emptying out the pots and filling them with fresh soil, adding manure to the raised beds…
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Also…what happened to February?
Well, there goes another month in 2014. At the beginning of this month I went down to Florida with Humming House to embark on the Cayamo Cruise in Miami – my first cruise ever. I’m not sure I ever would have gone on a cruise had it not been for Sixthman, the company that runs…
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Making Sushi
Out of the blue one afternoon on gchat Javier tells me that he wants to try to make sushi. I’m telling you, 100% of the projects we feature on here start with Javier getting a whim to do something, looking up videos on youtube on how to do it, and then going through with it.…
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What happened to January?
January is over. I’ll let that sink in for a second…I can’t believe we’re already 1 month down 11 to go in 2014. I thought 2013 flew by, and I wasn’t having half as much fun last year as I hope to have this year (and last year was pretty damn fun). You know what…
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Forced bulbs update
In November we decided to try forcing bulbs to grow in the middle of winter inside our house (see here). This was an experiment for us – we hadn’t done it before and we didn’t know what to expect. We decided to plant hyacinths and daffodils – not the easiest to grow for this kind…
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Melinko goes to Melinka
Haha – I almost forgot about this. This post is dedicated to the journeys of Melinko, the little stuffed animal ornament that my momma gave to me in my stocking this year. Every year my mom gives us two ornaments that we can use on our own tree back home. This year, she gave me…
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Last of Chile
Once we were back in Santiago, we focused on relaxing at the Rodriguez home. The heat outside made it difficult to move around too much, but the morning after we arrived back home Javier and I went with his dad to the farmer’s market to stock up on fruits and veggies for our NYE celebration.…
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Back to Santiago
We spent a few wonderful days in Melinka, and right before New Years we started the long journey back to Santiago. On to way to Melinka we sailed the Don Baldo and were able to explore the upper decks with nice (albeit cold) weather. On the way back to the mainland, however, we were on…
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Visiting Repollal Alto
On one of the days we spent in Melinka we drove to a nearby village called Repollal. It’s still on the island of Melinka but they have their own church and school (with about 10 students). The road that goes from Melinka’s center to Repollal is still fairly new and before it was built the…
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Que Lindo es Melinka
Melinka was a mystery to all of us before we arrived. Paula, Javier’s older sister, moved there several months ago for a job and we all decided to bring the family Christmas to her so we could experience life on this remote island. I asked Javier before we left for Chile what Melinka was like,…
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The boat to Melinka
Our next adventure in Chile began on Christmas eve when we drove to Quellón, Chiloe after fixing the battery of our van. Quellón is the port city where we boarded the ship Don Baldo, which transported all of us plus the van over to the island of Melinka. Nuestra siguiente aventura en Chile comenzo el…
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Parks and sunsets in Chiloe
On our second day in Castro, we headed to the national park located in a nearby town called Cucao. Chiloe itself is a big island and it hosts two gigantic, bright blue lakes lined with stony beaches: Lago Cucao and Lago Huillinco. The national park is between the lakes and the coast, about an hour…
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Visiting Dalcahue, Chiloe
On our first day in Castro we drove to a town nearby called Dalcahue. The Castro locals told us that the best “feria artesanal,” or craft fair, was in Dalcahue on Sundays and we happened to be there on Sunday, lucky us. It’s summer here but in the south it’s colder than in Santiago, so…
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Roadtripping to the South of Chile
On the day we arrived in Chile, we drove to Osorno and finally arrived at Javier’s aunt and uncles house ‘s 5 in the morning. His aunt and uncle have a beautiful home with a brand new back patio furnished with an outdoor grill that Javier studied for about an hour so he could learn…
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We made it to Chile!
It’s time for another Chilean Christmas!!!! Javier and I have been waiting for this trip since…well, truly since we left Chile the last time back in 2009 but this year since we bought our tickets in March. It’s been a LONG TIME COMING! We haven’t been since our wedding! This year we are planning to…
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New Humming House Single / Music Video
Another event that was lost on this blog among the pressure to talk about kickstarter was the release of our brand new single “Fly On.” This was the first single we released with my voice on it and I love the song! Coinciding with the single release was the official video release, featuring the lovebirds…
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Rodriguez / McClure Thanksgiving
With all the excitement about the kickstarter and the pressure to continue posting about it we never wound up posting about our Thanksgiving!! This year was a little different than usual because grandma was out of town and we did Thanksgiving at home in Nashville rather than Louisville. We made a feast fit for 3…
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Home-made Pizza!
A few weeks ago I was craving pizza. We normally buy the materials to make our own pizza, including the dough, from Trader Joes. Unfortunately the night I decided to make the pizza, the dough expiration date was about a week past and even though I thought about eating it anyways, I preferred to play…
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LAST CHANCE TO PRE-ORDER THE NEW HUMMING HOUSE ALBUM!
Sorry for all the monotony lately on the blog – we do have a ton of stuff to post on here from happenings of late but we are now facing the real “crunch time” to raise the $20,000 on the Humming House kickstarter! THERE IS LESS THAN ONE WEEK TO REACH OUR GOAL! If we don’t…
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