hello from Nueva Ecija

So here we are in the fragrant Philippine Islands.
Our small town is growing. And our son is turning the small house and compound into a mansion with meeting rooms etc. for guests and visitors for his work in human development/character cities.
And so I go around singing nostalgically: I wanna go back to my little grass shack (yes I know, it was a shack in Hawaii)...and our house was never a grass shack, although my husband's original home is still intact, with the traditional raised flooring to protect it from monsoons.
Ah, modern globalization. No near by mcdonalds, but a Jolibee and mall nearby, and when we "jog" every morning, a dozen other people are doing the same thing around the city square.
When things get more efficient, I will post photos.
No broadband yet here, but they do have DSL and I'm trying to get us connected...