How to count

One hen.
Two ducks.
Three squawking geese.
Four limerick oysters.
Five corpulent porpoises.
Six pairs of Don Alverso's tweezers.
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array.
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt.
Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic old men with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth.
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who hall, stall around the corner of the quay of the quivy of the quaff all at the same time.

Carrie Visits

Carrie was working on an environmental impact study on Guam and decided to stop in Tokyo on her way back to Hawaii. She went to Kamakura for a day, climbed a bit of the way up Mt Fuji from Kawaguchi Lake and bought a new digital camera while she was here. Now she's on her way back to Honolulu. Maybe Naomi and the boys will see her in Oahu next summer.....