Ichiro: card #14 “i’ll be your mirror” / 7.7
Ichiro Olson, card # 14 “I’ll be your mirror“ When I watch your face wrinkle, your lips curl, brow furrow, […]
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Kinfolk + Pals
Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #13 “generations” #Tomiko / 5.7
Ichiro Olson, card # 13 “Generations” / 5.7 The past few days we’ve witnessed a powerful transition of life as
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #12 “beard kisses” #zissou / 3.7
Ichiro Olson #io card #12 / collectible *prepare for beard kisses* ~ (Team Zissou uniform not usually included or required)
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ichiro: card #11 “officialness & compliance” #canadaday / 1.7
Ichiro Stanley Thorvald Olson, card #11 July 1, Reiwa 2 (2020) “Officialness & Compliance” Ergo: Name (etc) registration is complete
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Personal Musings
Diary: Stroll to Grandpa Ichiro’s ohaka juuust before…
{Catching up with…} evidence of a stroll on June 21st as we were waiting for baby Ichiro to make his
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Personal Musings
Diary: Waiting (patiently) for Ichiro (18th)
Update: no update. + Annotations: Little dude is taking his time. Ryoko is sewing so many cute things. I made
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Personal Musings
Diary: Ryoko in the Garden (with belly)
Who is ready to give birth any hour/day but is outside tuning up a grape trellis with hand-cut bamboo? Yep,
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: Umeboshi Time with Crock & Rocks (+ pickles & jam)
Re: making umeboshi (salted “plums”) – These tart and salty gems come in all sorts of sizes and various styles
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Personal Musings
Kitchen: pickle jars & exciting times
Another jar of pickles / fermented for 6 weeks and opened today #carrots (no, baby still waiting inside Hotel Ryoko)
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Field Notes, Libraries / Museums / Archives, Personal Musings
Exhibit: Michal Korman, paintings and global gathering
{In what seems like an entirely different lifetime}, in early March we went to the seaside village of Setouchi for
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Personal Musings
Diary: Immigration, Espresso, Photobooths
May 21: Time to extend visa/zairyu (foreign resident) card – form is simple and the quick/cheap photo booths everywhere make
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Personal Musings
Diary: washoku, pizza, strudel, tacos, pickles, ramen & more everyday food
Just another food round-up from Tsuchida Cottage. Of course, we are cooking at home, groceries get delivered (and some from
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Personal Musings
Diary: Ryoko gardening (more) and visiting grave (again)
{Catching up with…} Yet another visit to grandpa Ichiro’s grave during the pregnancy + pandemic, plus get another photo of
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Personal Musings
Diary: Pleasant Home Life with baby clothes, rabbit and bocce
My my the pleasant days go by – we fill our days with tending to lists of tasks from gardens
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Japan Cottage Musings
Okayama Love Letter / Japan Cottage Musings
With a French press coffee, pyjamas and slightly out of focus, Dave talks about general geography of Japan and specifically
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Personal Musings
Diary: More Rocks, also Herbs + Bocce Dreams (with time lapse fun)
As noted recently, we put in a fresh garden plot in the front yard area of our house in Tsuchida,
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