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Halloween 2019
I am ridiculously proud of myself. At the end of August, I brought home a bag of Brach’s “Autumn Mix” from America and there are still candy corns left for Halloween. I have been rationing them out for two months. I feel like today I can indulge and eat all the rest as dessert after…
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Real creepy
Halloween style in the countryside.
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Typhoon 21
Mr. Mogura drowned in our yard yesterday. His beautiful little feet will no longer dig rills under the moss. I am beyond tired of storms. As Typhoon #21 passed to the south of us, it dumped an entire month’s worth of rain. It flooded the downtown Kamogawa, as swollen tributaries joined together into one rushing…
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Walk in the woods
Another typhoon is on its way here tomorrow, so we decided to get in some walking in today. I was keen to go up Futatsuyama and Tod wanted to walk on the lindo (林道) so we combined the two. Before we got to the woods, we passed by a highly damaged solar farm near the…
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Cat suit
This little girl has slipped her head and front legs out of her post-surgery suit. She may be neutered, but her spirit isn’t neutralized. One lick at a time, she pushes it off. It takes two of us to remove it and put her back into it. Which we have done twice. Her stitches come…
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Autumushroom
Came across this magestic guy on our Sunday walk. Lovely markings on top. Tod for scale. The stem was easily 30cm long.
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Over fifty married couple
Today, we escaped the power outage and drove an hour north to the nearest movie theater. We saw our first 4DX movie with motion and atmospheric effects. The film was a cute anime called Weathering with You in English. 天気の子 in Japanese. It was beautifully animated and the extra effects were fun. But best of…
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Power’s back
96 hours later, we have electricity again. First things first: laundry, dehumidifying, and baking. A hot bath is planned for before bed.
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Why not embrace it?
I turned the defrosted fruit into breakfast crepes this morning and the remainder of he fruit is macerating with rum and sugar to go atop a cake later. This is probably more fun than my original plan for these fruits, which was to use them in smoothies. We had lunch in town – many plates…
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Kamogawa library
I finally have a library card in Kamogawa. It’s taken four years but today we visited, partly to check on their WiFi and outlet situation, and we got our cards. I feel like a proper citizen of the city. We spent 90 minutes exploring the space. Tod figured out the online catalog while I browsed…
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