Diary: Choosing a Tree from City (for baby)
Our local city government of Okayama has a splendid program which offers us a choice of tree sapling upon significant […]
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Personal Musings
Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: 1 Month / 23.7.2020 (shrine, grave and various annotations)
July 23, 2020 Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson hit the one month mark since birth. For the record: born June 23,
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: Variety of pork, sashimi, soup and sauces
I suspect you eat food, likely more than once per day. While I dabble in many mediums of art, the
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: Snapper (tai) and/or Wagyu (beef)
+ Dinner choices (& results) at Tsuchida Cottage with Snapper (Tai) or Wagyu (beef) + Amongst all the goodness in
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: Brief guide to salt fermented pickles
For the record, these are salt fermented though i did a couple with vinegar and sugar which are great too.
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Personal Musings
Diary: Tie dyes for Ichiro + Deadhead treats from Brother/Uncle Dan
{Catching up with…} Leading up to Ichiro’s birth, another wonderful package arrived – this one from brother Dan (with postal
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #23 “grateful” (Life & Peace) / 7.22
I know 2020 is really hard for lot of folks, but, tomorrow my son turns 1 month old and I’m
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #bonus “commendable” / silly papa 7.21
So it turns out, when you become a dad, you automagically get one of those mugs that says something about
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Personal Musings
Diary: sewing things for Ichiro + tie-dyes and pee-caps
{Catching up with…} Scant days before our adorable baby came into the world, my remarkable wife fired up her mom’s
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #19 “DATO & ISTO” (bath lads) / 7.17
Ichiro: card #19 “DATO & ISTO” (bath lads) / 7.17 Me & Ichi looooove bathtime bigtime / I look forward
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Ichiro: card #18 “milk coma” (thanks Mom!) / 7.16
Ichiro Olson, card #18 “milk coma” (thanks Mom!)
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Diary: Immigration office residence card + “life admin” update
Gone “outside the fence” > hitting up immigration office with FiL / hoping for 3 years zairyu/resident card extension in
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #17 “papa naptime” (grateful) / 7.13
Ichiro Olson, card #17 “Papa Naptime” + Grateful to you We (OK, me) are slowly trying to provide personal responses
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #16 “sitting comfortably” (for ramblers) / 7.12
Ichiro Card #16 “Are you sitting comfortably?“ While doing my #daveo50 “personal archaeology” project, I found a boarding pass from
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Ichiro: card #15 “spacepod” (for mothers) / 7.9
Today was the first day when we were just in our “normal” routine… wash diapers, change diapers, start laundry, fold
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