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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Personal Musings
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: Hospital Blues/ Postal Therapy
Wasn’t allowed into the birthing clinic appointment today due to the fcking “situation* so sat outside and scribbled a few
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Kinfolk + Pals
Diary: Birthday Fun with Dear Ryoko
Happy Birthday to my ray of sunshine Ryoko! Every day is the most wonderful fun with you. Let’s enjoy tea,
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Personal Musings
Diary: War and Peace rolls mightily… (in various forms)
To be clear: this is the 1959 Hollywood/King Vidor version with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda and others… There are
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Personal Musings
Diary: lil kitchen at Tsuchida Cottage
By the way, here’s our lil kitchen at Tsuchida Cottage. Tiny but efficient + cute & versatile. PS All the
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Personal Musings
Diary: Outside the wall + compost bin
Note: Went “outside the wall” yesterday for a hospital visit and wow, a lot of weirdness everywhere… Got back home
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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: Garden sprouting, yard evolving, rocks to move (still)…
Since we planted this patch of garden a week or two back, rain fell a few times in between stretches
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Personal Musings
Diary: Anniversary and Art Supplies
Coffee is brewing here at Tsuchida cottage as we kick off our three day anniversary fun times… We’re going to
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Personal Musings
Diary: New Goddess Art from Miyake Noriko
New art by Noriko Miyake (FB)! Such powerful goodness for welcoming the new human… And we made a fun lil video
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Japan Cottage Musings
Scrapbooks for all Reasons / Japan Cottage Musings
With a coffee and pyjamas, Dave riffs about types of scrapbooks, ways to make from scratch, reasons for making (memory
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