Join us for tea at Tsuchida Cottage, Okayama for our 1st wedding anniversary. We’ll play some songs, catch you up
Dave + Ryoko Anniversary Tea Time Variety Show (almost live) Read Post »
Since we planted this patch of garden a week or two back, rain fell a few times in between stretches
Diary: Garden sprouting, yard evolving, rocks to move (still)… Read Post »
Coffee is brewing here at Tsuchida cottage as we kick off our three day anniversary fun times… We’re going to
Diary: Anniversary and Art Supplies Read Post »
One of my favourite all-time musicians / song writers is Bill Janovitz (best known for his work in power-pop-post-punk trio
Scrapbooking, with Bill Janovitz Read Post »
New art by Noriko Miyake (FB)! Such powerful goodness for welcoming the new human… And we made a fun lil video
Diary: New Goddess Art from Miyake Noriko Read Post »
Continuing with chronicling collections of Collections in the Kura Grain Barn turned studio (needs a new name) / now featuring:
Diary: Records and Books in the Kura Studio / Music Mode = On Read Post »
Books are my pals, even since a kid – and sometimes books (by circumstance or convenience) are stashed at mysterious
Books: Assorted Japanese legends + punk rock history (Fall 2019) Read Post »
Wearing a smoking jacket at Tsuchida Cottage, Dave riffs on recent activities including: planting vegetable garden, playing piano, buying baby
Haikus, Garden + Baby News / Japan Cottage Musings Read Post »
Mixing soil, tilling it up, making mounds, planting beets, zucchini, lettuce of some sort, spinach, arugula / rucola / rocket,
Gardening at Tsuchida Cottage, Japan (time lapse fun) Read Post »
Books are my pals, even since a kid – and sometimes books (by circumstance or convenience) are stashed at mysterious
Books: Shelf and Shrine at Tsuchida cottage (Winter 2019) Read Post »
Princess Bride & pizza at Tsuchida Cottage + Update: Today, Ryoko wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, we moved
Diary: Princess Bride & pizza + PM letters and moving rocks Read Post »
Amidst all the chaos and commotion and confusion and concern, my adorable wife and our incoming child are bright healthy
Diary: Baby and blossoms (in the time of quarantine…) Read Post »
Round-up from the kura barn/mixed-media-creative-studio-in-process… Next up, going to attempt to carry up a big shelf cabinet – then, hopefully
Diary: Getting a handle on the Kura “sort-ganizing” project Read Post »
Took a break from the kura sortganizing project (due to unexpected frustration & unresolved mysteries) and fermented some various vegetables
Kitchen: Vegetable Ferments Read Post »
Update: each of these majestic suitcases now carries a specific subset of collections, ergo: one has dossiers and scraps and
Diary: Suitcases sorted with scraps and books Read Post »
Notes from the kura barn (day one): As I opened up dozens of boxes today to kind of do a
