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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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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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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Diary: to the seashore for pizza & watermelons
Brief evidence of a day trip to Nishiwaki Beach {Setouchi city} and pizza at Iwaburo + meeting up with Ryoko’s jazz
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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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Memo: Peaches, slow life, and thank-you etc
As John Prine advised, “move to the country, grow a lot of peaches…“ so we are (though these peaches pictured
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Diary: Haircut + Post Office (again)
Hit up the barber / time machine by the post office > still 1982 in here with faded photos of
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(are you an) Okayama Farmer or Gardener seeking compost?
Are you a Gardener &/or Farmer in Okayama area seeking Compost? Good news! My pal Mac Kobayashi at Rural Caprine
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From Creative Social Media to Postcards Stories on “Seeking Sustainability” audio
I was guest on JJ Walsh’sSeeking Sustainability in Japan live video streaming show (which transmits via YT, FB and several
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Kitchen: Ume Ferments and Garden Veg ~ round-up
Harvesting Ume: Ryoko Olson in her professional environment climbing trees (note her awesome boots and toolbelt), trimming branches and raining
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Tsuchida Station Construction Walkthrough
The construction folks have a day off, the cleaners came this morning, the protective sheets came off yesterday so,… did
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Ichi and Papa visit Ohaka on Father’s Day
Me and the little champion went up to the grandma and grandpa‘s graves to light some incense, give a clean
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Slow Life on “Seeking Sustainability” talk-show storytime with JJ Walsh
I was guest on JJ Walsh’s live video streaming show (which transmits via YT, FB and several other channels using
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Personal Musings
Diary: Cartography, Poetry and Bus Rides
Re: Amateur Cartography Over the wall to seitai treatment (as such, obligatory bus stop snappie for evidence) with The Weakerthans
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