You are caring parents who love your family; and you alone can make the decision to tighten your purse strings or to go on openhanding it.

The Hami melon, native to the Hami Region of Sinjiang Province, has found a new home here in Jhuangwei, Yilan. The soil downstream of the Lanyang River is great for the cultivation of hami melon because of the plentiful sunshine, excellent water system, and the local mild weather. The Hami melon was introduced to Jhuangwei in 1982.

But Dr. Niebuhr has gone beyond all that, and the soaring of his soul into millennial, billennial, and even trillennial prophecy seems to have boundless possibilities.

Some essence of dogitude shines through all the caprices of taste and breeding that humans have applied to the animal.