These are from well over a year ago. Sometimes it just takes a while to get around to posting all I want to. Moscovski is the name of a little village in northern Kz. Thanks for reading.

… For 5 days and 5 nights this was family. On the third night, the man to the far right came to supper holding a single, rather large dinner plate. All seven of us eating from that single plate, he told us, meant we were now part of his family. What better plate of lamb bones and noodles could be eaten?