Jon Teague’s Naadam video.
Jon Teague’s Naadam video.
Teague’s first Mongolia video!
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It’s our deepest pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of our family. Say hello to beautiful Baby Tavennec Renich! We’re already 15 weeks in! SURPRISE!!! ;-) Marielle is in France at the moment getting all sorts of good professional checkups and midwife counseling (something we can’t get here). SO EXCITED!!!!
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Bobo and the X-Boys. Can’t decide if it’s a new Mongolian band or some sort of sci-fi based dance show…
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This is what I feel like after a day working on the house. That’s Marielle helping me get the rust out and joints moving again… =)
via Balakov
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New Eugene friend Teague arrives from Ulaanbaatar the only way possible, with a shirtless taxi driver…
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Get good grades. Today was a big gravel day. Slowly getting up the foundation trenches to the preferred height where we will pour cement and finally start building our basement. I’ve been using gravel from the local copper mine. Nice, big, large, clean, full of fools gold, big… did I say big? Gravel? Size was ok for the base of our foundation but yesterday I ran out and switched to our preferred size of 10-20mm which is probably more like 5-25 seeing the gravel… but WOW, what a difference. Shoveling is lightening fast and tamping it down firm is a dream. It was a bit more expensive than the big stuff, but totally worth it. I feel like a gravel geek these days, investigating sizes, grades, cleanliness, etc… thankfully the only gravel I’ll have to deal with after this is for our driveway and in the cement for out footing and basement walls… glad to be moving onto cement blocks and then finally wood framing in the (hopefully) near future. Gravel man out.
LOUIS SEBASTIAN!!!!
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I just watched my wife go thru customs and off on her trip to France. How am I going to survive the next three and a half weeks…