I planted them five inches apart across the front of
our lot. If they're kept wet, they should take root.
We should have a good hedge by spring. I also stuck
some hibiscus cuttings in the ground all along our
north fence. So we may be able to landscape our
house without buying anything.
 Today was a very good market day. Oxane got:
 12 eggs (.24), 2 cucumbers (.08), 1 cashima (.03),
 4 shaddock (.04-like grapefruit), 2 bunches of rad-
 ishes (.04), 9 tomatoes (.13), 5 onions (.05), 10 limes
 (.03), 2 bunches of carrots (.04), 1 pineapple (.12),
 8 bananas (.08), 4 oranges (.02), 6 heads of loose-leaf
 lettuce (.06), and 3 tiny bundles of pitch wood for
 starting charcoal fires (.01). Of course, many of
 the fruits and vegetables are not up to the quality
 and size of the States. We pay Oxane $6 a month
 total ($4 plus 50c a week for food), that is 20c a day.
 We could never bargain for all those vegetables at
 the prices she got. And besides, she washes the
 dishes, washes some of the clothes, irons some, sweeps
 and dusts the house. But we don't work her too
 hard. She has had lots of free time, and we let her
 go home just about whenever she wants, especially
 at night.
 We've worked out a schedule for ourselves (which
we are having difficulty keeping) and we are actual-
ly getting in more language study. It's hard to keep
a schedule because there are so many interruptions
that change the day.
 Got a $90 check as Christmas present from some
member of Long Beach First Church today. That's
a lot! Well, the Lord knoweth what things ye have
need of! We're not worried about anything. The care
He's been taking of us is too good.