Betelnut is husked, quartered, and chewed. You know a real hardcore chewer when you see them set it up with lime (i.e., powdered limestone) and tobacco wrapped in a pepper leaf. It makes your mouth fill up with saliva and you have to keep spitting. The spit marks are red splatters on the ground. Apparently it gives the chewers a high similar to drinking too much caffeine. I don't get it. I tried it twice and got nothing out of it either time.

I know how I'll feel once I hold Sabra. If I'm lucky I will not cry. I'm just not looking forward to 30 hours in the airplanes. Grumble, grumble, gripe, gripe.

Kat now is the only one of you all to have the official Try-To-Keep-Wakana-In-The-USA photo album. For those of you in OZ you might try to get together with her if you really want to see the pictures. Charlie and Judy will get a look at it and the larger one I'm building for friends and family.