We have enjoyed, as somewhat of a tradition, making paper snowflakes.
這是我們做的紙雪花。

Also, this year, buying presents for each other was fun and a bit tough but still enjoyable.
這是今年的一些禮物。


This is a mini picture exhibit of our Christmas lights. We are highly excited for Christmas to arrive...As well, thankfully, no one got hurt while putting up our lights.

我們今年有把我們的家裝燈。真漂亮！

Winter has begun to bite (pt. 2-sort of)

Winter has (once more) struck....These are photos of some of our vegetables that froze (unfortunately) to death.......

冬天真冷！這些菜都凍死了。。。。

Winter's has begun to bite!

Winter has decided to show itself.....We, like a lot of the US, has really cold weather. It was 20 degrees for the overnight low.

冬天來了！！！我們美國這幾天都非常的冷。。。昨晚外面的溫度降到了20度。

Thanksgiving!

This is the lovely scene of our Thanksgiving.

這是我們的感恩節派對。

Weeding the Garden with the Chickens

Before ....................
After ......................
Above, we used the chickens to weed the garden..Basically, we moved the chickens in their tractor over the weeds for the afternoon. Below is how we moved the chickens.



今天我們把雞移到一個有很多雜草的地方除我們的雜草。

Recently, we've started to make leaf mold...Basically, to make leaf mold, you simply put a pile of leaves into the compost and then wait three years...It is used as compost when it's done.

Halloween!

Halloween has recently passed and here are photos of our costumes and our pumpkins!

EGGS！

As you can see, our chickens have laid many eggs of different colors. Generally the sizes are fairly the same although we have had a rather large one that had two yolks.....Last week was a typical week, the number of eggs laid that week was:

Sunday-4 eggs
Monday-4 eggs
Tuesday-2 eggs
Wednesday-2 eggs
Thursday-5 eggs
Friday-3 eggs
Saturday-3 eggs


我們家的雞蠻會生蛋，而且顏色都不一樣。 有時候我們會有比較大的蛋。。。 有時候會有雙黃蛋。。。這是上個禮拜生的蛋：

星期：
日： 4 顆蛋
一：4 顆蛋
二：2 顆蛋
三： 2 顆蛋
四： 5 顆蛋
五：3 顆蛋
六：3 顆蛋

Fall Is Here!

Fall has at last arrived! The October weather here is lovely....cold, but rather nice. Of course, the rain has returned which is great....

秋天終於來了！十月的天氣真好，雖然冷，卻不會太冷。 當然，雨也回來了，真是讓人高興！

Endive....pt. 2 (sort of)

Recently, under suggestion, we ate endive cooked with bacon. It was rather popular amongst us and most of us enjoyed it. (There was a person who didn't like bacon or endive, together or separate, but never mind them.)

我們前幾天又吃了endive，可是， 我們是把他和培根一起煮的。我們大部分都覺得很好吃。只有一個人不喜歡因為他不喜歡吃培根或endive.

Light for the chickens!

Chickens need 15 hours of daylight. They need this amount of daylight because if they don't, they don't lay eggs. Since winter is approaching, we put a light bulb in their coop. We also have a timer that turns off the light because we don't have to do it ourselves after a certain amount of hours....

雞需要十五個小時的陽光， 因為 如果他們沒有他們就不會生蛋。因為冬天快來了， 我們為他們裝了一個燈。這樣他們連冬天時也可以生蛋。

Endive....

The plant with the light green, layered leaves and frilly edges is endive....We ate it recently, flavoring it with garlic and salt. Though the added flavoring did not mask the bitter taste that came naturally with the endive. I personally did not enjoy the taste of endive though....

這種菜叫做endive.我們前幾天已經把他吃了。我們煮的時候，我們用大蒜和鹽巴調味，可是菜還是苦苦的。我不太喜歡吃。

Rain and Chickens Do Not Mix.....

As most know, it rains a lot in Portland, OR. Due to that, we had to put tarp on the coop....The chickens highly dislike rain, thus the tarp.


波特蘭常常下雨而且,雞並不喜歡雨。因為這樣，我們把一塊塑料布蓋在雞窩上面。

Our Chickens' First Egg!

Today (or perhaps it was yesterday) one of our chickens laid an egg (see picture 2)! It has us all excited because pretty soon, we'll have more...Anyway, the egg was small and was brown and speckled with white flecks. The other photos are just updates of our chickens' growth.

今天我們的雞生了一顆蛋（請看第二張照片） ....我們都很興奮因為很快就會有更多蛋！那顆蛋小小的，殼是咖啡色的上面還有一點一點白白的。剩下的照片是我們雞現在的長像。

BIGGEST Asian Pear we've grown ever!!!!

To start this out, you should know that we have three Asian pear trees...Anyway, the pear on the left (our left), is the one the title refers to....The one on the right (our right) is the average size of our Asian pears. All of which are quite delicious.

我們家種了三顆水梨樹。我弟弟左手拿得水梨是我們家種出目前為止最大的一顆水梨，比較小的水梨是大部分水梨的大小。。。可是，不管水梨有多大，都很好吃。

Chinese School~

Chinese School is almost starting...not the most exciting news, but inevitable..Anyway, the photo is of some pens and other writing utensils and the books are the textbooks my brother and I used to study for our skip grade test.(A test that we both passed...) It was rather difficult but we managed to learn a school years' worth of Chinese in two months.




我們快要上中文學了。。。我並不太期待，可是我們一定要上課。上面的照片是文具和我和弟弟用來學我們跳級考試的中文。。。雖然蠻難的，可是我們把一個學年的中文學會了，而且過了考試。。。

We're back from Taiwan!

Our trip to Taiwan was, overall, fun....(We took our vacation from June 24 to August 20) The photo above is from our trip. It is of us, during the day of the typhoon, which destroyed a lot in the southern part of Taiwan (we we're in the northern part at the time). The food was really yummy and we visited relatives.

我們去台灣過暑假的日子蠻好玩的。。。(我們在那裡是從六月二十四日到八月二十日） 上面的照片是我們 颱風天照的。那時候，颱風把台灣的南部毀了。。。台灣的食物很好吃。我們也有去看我們阿姨叔叔。。。

More garden

Here are some of our garden plants.



Baby Bok Choy. This is still very young. We hope they will be big enough to eat by mid October. We'll see.


Green onion. We just moved these so they will have more room to grow.



This is Gai Lan a kind of Chinese broccoli. It was hit really hard by some kind of bug. Some of the plants looked like there was nothing left. Most of them have come back now.


This is also Baby Bok Choy. It is from an earlier planting and so it is much bigger.



We have some strawberries. They had fruit in the spring and it looks like they have more now.



We have some nice Swiss Chard plants but this one got killed by something (Not sure what). Hope the others will not suffer the same fate.



This is Buttercrunch Lettuce. It seems to be growing fine. We will let some of them develop heads and others we will pick leaves off as they grow.




These are Romaine Lettuce. They seem to be doing well.



We have two tomato plants. We should get some tomatoes from this cherry. The other one is a big tomato variety and it just now started to flower. We don't expect any tomatoes from it before it is too cold but we will see. When we pull the tomatoes out hopefully there will still be time for some spinach or something.

Not shown here we also have some endive and some peas.