iz warm out! iz warm out!

It's so warm out! Wow. It finally feels like . . . spring? Which is good, the summer can be way to hot here, but Vanadzor generally stays pretty mild compared to some of the hotter places around here. So it feels like summer in Vanadzor. Finally. it's only, oh I dunno . . . JUNE.

Saw some kids playing paper-scissors-rock. They were sitting cross legged, on the roof of a partially underground building I think is used for cooking, maybe baking bread, on account of the metal chimneys that jut out of the roof. Whichever boy won that round got to flick the other one on the head.

I lost my voice exactly one year ago today! and I'm losing it now! I have honey. And tea. But the water is off right now. I think they're replacing some pipes. Would have been nice to know ahead of time that it'd be today.

I bought some honey for a friend the other day, but once I was in the store I had forgotten the word in Armenia (it's մեղր, transliterated meghr, though basically the /gh/ sound is a weird guttural r type sound, often equated with the French r and then it's followed by another r. So two /r/ type sounds in a row. Thanks). So I didn't know this word, so I go into let's describe what we can't say mode. So I start with, I don't know how to say the thing in Armenian, but it is sweet. It is made by a bug that is black and yellow. It is sweet, and yellow.

After a few minutes like that, the shopkeeper pointing at things, and I'm saying no no, then she has one of those eureka moments and has me come behind the counter and look in this big metal tin and keeps repeating meghr, meghri. jackpot! Home made honey. I got what I wanted without evening knowing what it was (what the word was, if you want to get technical but it sounds better if I don't say it this way).

What do you say? That's a bingo!