Wild Invasion! Life

One morning, someone broke into my peaceful house and stirred my mind!
Must be racoons to get some grubs under my lawn.
After their 2 consecutive visits, we spread animal repellant and bug killer.
They didn't leave any mark of visiting for just one night and came back again.
Okay, we will have to set up motion detecting lights this time.

어느날 아침 누군가가 평화로운 우리집에 쳐들어와서 제 평화로운 마음을 흐트러뜨리네요! 
아마도 라쿤들이 잔디밭 밑에 있는 벌레를 먹느라고 다 파헤쳐 놓은것 같습니다.
연속 이틀을 흐트러진 잔디밭을 보고 우리도 반격을 합니다.
야생동물을 쫓는 가루와( 성분을 보니 고추가루, 후추가루에 삵괭이 분비물을 섞어놨네요) 
잔디밑 벌레를 없애는 가루를 사다 잔뜩 뿌렸습니다.
그날밤 잠잠하더니 오늘 아침 다시 흔적이 남아 있네요.
그렇다면 우리도 딴 방법을 쓸 수 밖에요.
움직이면 켜지는 불을 장치하는 수 밖에요.

At the same time I have some bothering thoughts that I never expected.....
Hopefully this goes away with nasty racoons.
같은 즈음에 또 다른 일로 제 마음이 흐트러진 일이 생겼어요.....
라쿤을 퇴치할 때 이 혼란스러움도 함께 사라지면 좋겠어요.

I want to get my peace of mind so I can enjoy home grown figs.
아무에게도 방해받지 않고 뒷마당서 딴 무화과를 먹으며 평화를 느끼고 싶네요.
고시래~( 소금을 뿌리며)

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Thai cooking class #2 Life

Next Saturday, people might show up at Somkid's house and demand more class!
Beause our fun Thai cooking class was over last Saturday.....
I was busy washing mint and cilantro. Emi's knife was busy jullianning green onions and bell pepper.
Rachel stirred coconut milk with patience. Paul cooked pork butt with panang curry.

We made 2 yummy dishes again.

Here's our first dish Larb Neau.
Ground beef with mint, cilantro, shallot, green onion salad. Lettuce was a perfect match with this mouth watering dish!
Simple seasoning with fish sauce and oyster sauce worked well and Kid's fresh made galanga, rice and pepper powder worked like floo powder. They lead us to the gourmet Thai kitchen!


The second dish was Panang!
Whenever my family go to Kid's house for dinner, I am the one who takes left over panang home :)
I am so happy to learn this so I can cook for my family without bothering Kid.
At the class, we used thin sliced pork butt.
We had a judge for our food( Thai language teacher and his wife) and out panang won the first place!!!


Today I cooked larb neau and panang again for my family and this time I used chicken and it tasted wonderful!




P.S. I have to confess this though......
I bought the wrong ingredient so had to run to the market twice.
After wasting a pack of frozen yucca and grated coconut, I was able to use frozen coconut milk.
Silly me~

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Mommy's sweatshop Life



Cutting 40 pieces of fabrics(5 colors)-check!
Putting 5 pieces together with flat fell seam(taking forever to do this and thanks to Eva!)-check!
Finishing seams and sewing the casing for the pole-check!
What? Do we have more flags to make?
I am glad that I am not the only mom who jumped into this cutting and sewing party.
What is going on?
My daughter's color guard team has been practicing since summer and their first competition is next weekend.
Moms volunteered to making flags for our kids and we were busy while they are practicing.
Tomorrow I am attending another fun sewing party in the evening at my daughter's school and hopefully we can finish as many as we need.






 Last year's performance :)

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