In memory...
Moose (Moosey)
December 20, 2004 - November 7, 2007
You were loved by many! We´ll miss you!
Family, friends, brothers, sisters, kinfolk, neighbors, amigos, associates, acquaintances, colleagues, contemporaries, backers, benefactors, contributors, patrons, advocates, sponsors, supporters, accomplices, collaborators, cronies, countrymen, comrades, compatriots, companions, compañeros, confidants, cohorts, allies, sympathizers, well-wishers, and brothers in arms…… welcome to the online journal of our 27 months in Honduras with the U.S. Peace Corps.
This blog represents the opinions (occasionally poorly developed and conflicting) of two Peace Corps volunteers and not the U.S. Peace Corps
Rawahs - July 06
Our address
Luke y Annie Gingerich
Apartado Postal 69
Danli, El Paraiso, Honduras
Apartado Postal 69
Danli, El Paraiso, Honduras
The Count
- Months in Honduras 20
- Pets aquired: 6
- Bacterial other stomach illnesses: 7 (between the two of us)
- Dengue fevers: 1
- Bottles of sunscreen: 5
- Trips to beach: 4
- Baleadas eaten: 293 (the two of us)
- Cockroaches found in house: 20+
Ag and Engineering
Peace corps / Honduras info
Books read by Luke during time with Peace Corps (* = Annie read it too)
- *The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford
- Waiting for the Snow: The Peace Corps papers of a charter volunteer by Thomas Searlon (return PCV)
- *The Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
- Tracker by Gary Paulsen
- *Don’t Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart edited by Medea Benjamin
- *The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Huck Finn by Mark Twain
- Peace not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
- A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
- *Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear´s Trail by Karsten Heuer
- The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: History of the Gauchos of Patagonia by Nick Reding
- Ma and Pa Hart Join the Peace Corps by June Hart (RPCV)
- The Red Badge of Courage and ¨The Veteran¨ by Stephen Crane
- *Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- *The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (a re-read)
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- The Firecracker Boys by Dan O´Neill
- Caribbean by James A. Michener
- Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- Endurance: Shackleton´s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- The Milagro Beanfield Wars by John Nichols
- The Last American Man by Elizebeth Gilbert
- The Third Chimpanzee: The evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
- *Omnivore´s Dilemma: A natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- No Man´s River by Farley Mowat
- Chesapeake by James A Michener
- Plainsong by Kent Haruf
- Caravans by James A. Michener
- Walking on the Land by Farley Mowat
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (a re-read)
- Lonesome Dove by James McMurtry
- The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
- The Snow Walker by Farley Mowat
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (a re-read)
Books read by Annie during time with Peace Corps (* = Luke read it too)
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
- Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
- Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
- Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two years in the heart of an African village by Sarah Erdman (a return PCV)
- The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
- Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
- *White Man´s Grave by Richard Dooling
- The No. 1 Ladies´ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Cipotes by Ramon Amaya Amador
- The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- *Eat, Pray, Love: One woman´s search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Irresistible Revolution: Living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Memory Keeper´s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- White Man´s Burden: Why the West´s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good by William Easterly
- *Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An invitation worth considering by David Gregory
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world by Tracy Kidder
- *Escape by Carolyn Jessop
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Time Traveler´s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- *The Glass Castle (a memoir) by Jeannette Walls
- *Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Enrique´s Journey by Sonia Nazario
- By the River I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
- A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
8 comments:
We will miss Moosey!! He was such a fun, loving dog. Your picture memorial is so precious...:( Keep your chins up guys...
love, Dory
I just found this site thanks to Mark Gingerich and wanted to say Hello.
Justin in Greene Township
I am not sure how you guys are doing - as this makes me cry!!! We loved Moosey too! And will miss him.
Love, Sally, Jason, Lila, and Tate
Luke & Annie:
I had to cry again!! Such wonderful pictures!!
MOM/GRANDMA
Annie and Luke-
I am so sorry to hear that! The pictures are great and may they always fill your heart with love when you see them! Moose, I am sure, is with you guys- who knows, maybe he is hanging out with Armando in the back yard (I know armando is still with you, but Moose can be his imaginary friend!) Hang in there-
lots of love, erin and romancito
I never met Moose but I'm crying looking at your wonderful photos. I'm so sad to see that you guys lost your best bud. Hang in there.
What a beautiful creature. I feel
sorry about Moosey. I loves dogs.
I looked at the pictures and started to cry all over again. Moose is buried next to Bart in the Green Township State Park. They were both good dogs and we loved them.
Love, Mom/Jean
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