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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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During and after the typhoon
Charging our stuff at City Hall. Power has been out since Saturday at 4:30 pm. Zan and her cats stayed with us through the storm. She and I did yoga in the living room. No cats allowed. Our cats got cozy in the bed with us. They would like to be housecats permanently! During the…
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In the paper
As Tod, Zan, and I were leaving the “refugee room” at City Hall, a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun introduced himself. He was working on collecting stories from foreign residents affected by the typhoon. He was very interested (of course) in Zan’s damaged house and after talking with us for half an hour or so,…
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Typh0on #19, Hagibis
Social media sources and the news are loudly warning about Super Typhoon 19, which looks like it might make landfall in Japan over the weekend. But where it will hit, and at what intensity, is a matter of speculation at this point. Tod & I are scheduled to go to Mie-ken to celebrate our 30th…
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Brave or stupid?
Futatsuyama models his mamushi (pit viper) bite. Futatsuyama fears nothing. He is an unstoppable force, facing down raccoons and playing with snakes. This swollen foot is likely the first of many. A couple of days ago discovered a pair of abcessed wounds on his flank. He isn’t the kind of cat who learns lessons. Does…
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