As promised here is a photo of some of the gifts from hubby's travel in Asia. Above is also a picture of a lovely small ikat table runner that my husband brought me. (I have a nice collection of ikat weavings and this will add to it.) In the first photo are all the little things that he brought home. Can you guess all of them? I will email a nice sunset photo or fall photo (your choice--or perhaps a print) to the blogger who gets it right first!
(With the new Blog editor bar it appears that there is no longer a spellcheck? I am a terrible speller and apologize until I can figure this out!) (I will turn on comment moderation. I just checked the comments and no one has gotten all of them yet. I'll give a clue...Indonesia was known as the spice islands.)
I'm a terrible speller too! I used to think I was pretty good till spellcheck came along and burst my deluded bubble.
ReplyDeleteI think I see dates and cashews. It all looks pretty yummy!
I can't guess all those; I see some cashews and are those lychee nuts?
ReplyDeleteI like that runner very much!
Dates, cashews, little packets of coffee, and......some kind of dried cake/biscuit. We were at a loss there, but it looked like a little flour at the bottom of the pink paper/plastic.
ReplyDeleteRYN: You say, "I keep forgetting that most (all?) of this is real." All of it was real. This is only a fraction of my life, I'm so sorry to say. How I got where I am today? One day after one more long battle with my eldest, I had never felt physically worse. I was dating this quiet man who didn't drink and who had come to dinner. After a very embarrassing drunk episode with him, I stopped drinking at last. Who I am today grew out of that and the help from a lot of other people.
Aww, man. I don't know. But Googling for the answers has really made me hungry! Cripes my mouth is watering and everything and it's 6:40 in the morning!
ReplyDeleteYour husband's a sweetie! :)
ReplyDeletesorry, no idea apart from the cashew nuts.
ReplyDeleteI just read your last post; some villagers think i am mad too. Yesterday somebody watched me walking slowly around in a saturated field by the river, in the pouring rain, with dog, walking stick and rubber boots, taking photos of the huge, lake-like puddles forming in the continual downpour. When I said I was looking for November motifs she said, " ah, yes, of course you are".
Well the only correct thus far is the cashew nuts. I did not think it would be this hard!
ReplyDeleteOk, you have us pulling our hair out here. The Cashews were correct. Not the dates? Himself says those are not lychee...figs? We are still lost with the little plastic wrapped browned things..... :)
ReplyDeleteI love gifts from foreign countries. Enjoy yours!
ReplyDeleteI write my blogs in Word, then select all, copy, and paste into the blog post. So, the spell check was done while in Word.
Too bad we can't spell check our comments. I've re-read comments that I've written, and have had a lot of "oops."
Aside from the cashew nuts, I guess the little packets of coffee Maggie referred are called "pakwan" in the Philippines or dried flavored watermelon seeds. The ones in the blue plastic bag are Talisay seeds or Indian almonds. And the dried biscuits may be rice cake. The other pic has a woven material you can use as a decoration. :)
ReplyDeleteIt might also be roasted jackfruit seeds. I miss eating that. Yummy! :)
ReplyDeletePecans? Are they pecans?
ReplyDeleteCashews, hard biscuits, dates and cloves.
ReplyDeleteCloser folks...but no cigar.
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