Kino

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Last Monday was a Mexican holiday so we spent the day at the beach. We really haven’t had much of a winter this year.

Scout used his new toy: the GoPro harness. It’s pretty awesome, but I have a tendency of forgetting to click record on the video before setting him off. Despite the horrible reviews online, it actually does pretty well.

 

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We met up with some of the younger people from our church. They had arrived around 6am in order to do some fishing and were in fact successful in catching what appeared to be some red snapper.

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Jeepers

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My sepentine belt went out after a pulley bolt went bad. The first indication was when my power steering pump was not working. Then my battery gauge showed the battery was losing charge. Finally the engine temperature went high which prompted me to stop and open the hood.

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Orange tree

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It’s that time of year again for free oranges. So many and so good.

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Random foto

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Random photo from this afternoon on the road.

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Object pronouns

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Indirect object pronouns are such a challenge for me. Because that last sentence would be, “Indirect objects me are such a challenge” in Spanish. The indirect object appears before the verb and direct object. My brain (specifically my syntactic parser) is not prepared to recognize an indirect object before a verb and direct object. So in my listening comprehension exercises I am cofusing indirect object pronouns as other parts of speech and then I end up confused. Object pronouns often look like articles. As an example, “La estoy mirando”. Since la is a feminine article that often appears at the beginning of a sentence, I immediately interpret it wrongly. The subsequent verb is the notification that it cannot be an article, but with that information I have to then make a decision regarding the nature of la. Thus I need to backtrack mentally which seems inefficient. But given the ambiguity of la there is no choice. That doesn’t happen in English (well, it’s rather rare as found in garden path sentences). If I see the in a sentence, then my brain knows the nature of the next word before getting to that word (it can only be a noun). Because my brain can anticipate future words in a sentence, it can parse them quicker. But I don’t see how that can be the case in Spanish in certain circumstances.

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Celebrating Yun’s bday

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Plants update

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The plants are coming along quite nicely. I have roughly six tomato plants and six squash plants. It rained here pretty hard the last couple of days so I brought most of them inside. And it seems as though I’m going to have to transplant all of them into larger plants within the next week or so. And then I think I am ready to start some more seeds.

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I really shouldn’t…

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Yun’s bday

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Yun celebrates 36 years of life today. We went to Vizzieto’s for dinner (our favorite Italian place here in town).

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Scout’s new toy

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Scout got a new accessory for the GoPro.

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