Gnats, Midges, Canadian Soldiers, June Bugs, Mayflies



Whatever they are... (GO TRIBE!) - it IS October!! We're all about baseball here.

This weekend has seen the strongest typhoon in a long time hit Taiwan - it even affected our fair city, unlike most typhoons of the last couple years. We've been lucky to hear/see crazy wind/rain without losing electricity, suffering flooding, tree-falls or landslides. So, baseball - lots of it - in our very tropical digs. Games seem to start around 5am and go til noon or one-ish. Ish. I don't really know.























On Friday the weather turned from days of unbelievably still and humid to a bit cooler with occasional gust-like wind. That was our first hint that there might be a typhoon in the area. Sure enough, the Central Weather Bureau had issued a warning for the north east of the island. Krosa (not a good name) was big, slow-moving and very impressive to see on the satellite. After a quick grocery run Friday night, Ryan and I were confident we had enough food and sundries at home. Plus with the lackluster performances of typhoons in town lately, we weren't concerned. So, like the townsfolk in the story of the boy who cried wolf, we were poised to learn some frustrating, pedestrian lesson about preparedness...









Saturday morning: No coffee. Well, No More Coffee. Big winds. Sideways rains. The unopened bag of oily black beans we both thought we had - vanished. After LOTS of looking we gave up and settled on the only logical explanation; someone must have broken in, left everything else as is, and took our coffee.







So next time there's a big storm coming; one that might force shops (Mary reported that *bucks was closed), schools etc to close for a day - we'll have to make sure we have 2 bags of coffee on hand.