Memo: Sept ahoy (settle, tidy, breathe)
September Ahoy! Theme: settling in, tidying up, breathing easier / started today with fresh lists and three pots of meal […]
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Improving Campsite, Personal Musings
Tsuchida Station ~ grounds project (weather station)
Now your jovial correspondent Takushi Fujita can transmit detailed weather information directly from Tsuchida Station including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure,
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Post’d: global hats & paint pens
1) Humid muggy misty morning walk to post office (an “essential service“ in current state of emergency) with a super
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Kinfolk + Pals
Ryoko & Ichiro hitting big time at Sun Clinic
Ryoko & Ichiro hitting the big time and looking *extra cute* at their check-up at Sun Clinic here in sunny
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Lil Farmer Ichiro, on the tractor
Got Ichiro a tractor for his 14 month birthday 😉 Here’s the keys, “Get to plowing lil fella!”
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Essential Annotations About Cycles & Adapting
Dave enjoys a moment of leisure after busy days of construction and sortganizing to scribble art postcards, arrange records by
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Diary: Sunday Sundries… tidying up with power cords & dance party
Huge / busy week since my birthday good times on 16th which means am behind on correspondence as usual esp
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Personal Musings
Diary: August Days of Obon, Typhoons and Errands
Aug 12-15th-ish: We’re in the midst of Obon Holiday time when people traditionally visit their ancestral towns and villages to
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Castle, foundations and pajamas (from Saskatoon to Tsuchida)
Castles, Foundations and Pyjamas (from Saskatoon to Tsuchida) Along with {amusing} ukulele meanderings, daveo recaps recent year including hot springs
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Tokyo’s “Lonely” Olympics and the Mess Left Behind on theBreaker.news podcast
Olympics are over if you want it. Pod’d some thoughts with Vancouver journalist Bob Mackin a few days ago about the lay of the land here in Japan and the cognitive dissonance between Tokyo2020 Olympics on TV and for the people hosting/ paying for it. As such, i call it “The Lonely Olympics”.
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Pink Phone Generational Flashbacks (& Forwards)
From the front porch of the kura studio with cicadas chirping on a sunny day in Okayama come riffs and
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Diary: arborist test, sumo, salad + sckness, campaigns, ideas
Saturday: My sweet wife Ryoko started day at a funeral for a dear fellow who always supported her band &
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Music theory, thunder & friendships #diary
From a rainy porch, riffing gratefulness for friends with kind words and packages, minimal commentary about ridiculous Olympics and various
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Diary: stop by the goat farm (Grateful Dead, ephemera, records, sandwiches)
Dear wife slowed down from her tree trimming teaching, job site visits, landscape planning, tea ceremony, band practice etc. etc.
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Japan Cottage Musings
Effectuating positive change from heart (with ukulele)
Just back from cleaning the grandparents’ graves and regrouping in century+ old barn studio, i riff a few things in
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Summer plans: Baritone Ukulele and writing hiragana / katakana
On my stated list of objectives for this year, I plan to: 1) Learn to play a song or 3
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