sunny day walk to the post office
{leaving the house usually means hospitals or preschool activities and sometimes post offices like in this case} made some poem […]
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Nagasaki Ramble, Feb. 2020, part 2 (baths, bombs, bevvies… more trains)
Unnecessary Preamble: part 2 of a trip to Nagasaki in February 2020 – we were in pregnancy mode, visiting relatives,
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Nagasaki Ramble, Feb. 2020, part 1 (trains, trams, food & rumours of a…)
Unnecessary Preamble: The trip was meant as a little adventure and to visit relatives and also get away from the
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Personal Musings
Diary: December 25 is normal day (& i see you if you are blue) + ahead to New Year
Happy December 25, no matter what your clock and/or a calendar says. Important: A note to folks dealing with chronic
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Musings: *Sports day* redundant & irrelevant annotations
Oct 13 Obligatory sports day dispatch Preamble: “Sports day” isn’t really a great translation but every year at schools from
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Diary: shaking it out, tidying up bamboo and looking ahead to YMCA school
Meanwhile, back at the cottage after returning home from Seaside for a bonanza of vacuuming, shake out, linen changes and
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Notes to Future Self
Brief re-cap {of everything, up to here}
Sometimes (esp when my *former Company* is in the news), folks surface – who apparently missed out on last 9 years
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Notes to Future Self
Vignettes & Lists / tying dangling ends
[Oh, I should be more clear: these are things done recently, a few things I might do today, and things
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Kura Scrapbook Hangout w/ cards & letters
Adding recent postcards, cards and letters to an “accordion” style scrapbook with various tapes and stamps in kura barn studio
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Japan Cottage Musings
Musing: Painted into corner (of a blank canvas) #video
Diary musings including: brain fog; trips to Shimane and Kyoto (Minka Summit); pals Ted and Ed and a big dog;
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Diary: visitors see new life & family + trip to Teshima w/ Ichiro annotations
A mysterious brilliant visitor from overseas – first in three years – captured me, at home, in my new life.
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Diary: (trying) to bounce up with various pleasing tasks
Various notes before heading off on a lil roadie to Shimane prefecture (across-ish on Sea of Japan side). Ichiro’s 1st
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Diary: dumptruck, Bob, Jack, VWs, baseline
Several topics to catch you up on, including: Ryoko’s new dump truck! 660cc, 4WD, 350kg payload Brother Bob‘s birthday w/
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Items: record shop stop (feat. BTO Japan Tour)
yesterday, report / diary: Finished medical appt and somehow a magnetic impulse pulled me into a tiny record store –
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Schemes and Dreams for Year of the Tiger – Reiwa 4 / 2022
+ Schemes and Dreams for Year of the Tiger – Reiwa 4 / 2022 + No surprise whatsoever, Dave, surrounded
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Diary: notary tasks, Ichiro kisses & life musings
Just a little bit excited because we have/get to visit a notary public! To drop a significant amount of ¥
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