Checking In
Just checking in to say that I am still alive. It has been a busy busy summer. We have hardly had time to pick the vegetables growing in our garden, let alone weed. August should be a bit calmer as we have figured out a lot about how to make a great experience, and we are also turning people away to give ourselves more time.
Our neighbor's grandson has been staying next-door for a few weeks. When we have time we play with him, or walk to the bath together. Fun stuff. He has never been camping so I plan to take him next week when we are back from Tokyo.
Oh yeah, we have to go to Tokyo again today. A series of meetings (both for work and for fun) and a workshop that we are giving to some young job-seekers about "connection". We have to figure out what to talk about as we ride the train today.
The photos are of our neighbor's grandson. I took them for a newspaper article Tomoe and I have been asked to write about "seasonal change".
Comments
Good to see things are going well up there - I was wondering what you'd been up to over the summer.
Your blog really helped me out the other day. I was trying to find brown rice syrup in Japan, but didn't know where to get it, or what the Japanese word was. Genmai shiroppu wasn't turning anything up in google. But one of the searches turned up a post of yours from 2006, and I was able to add the word kome-ame to my vocabulary. Much appreciated!
(I'm trying to make home-made GU gel for my mountain trips - turns out the key ingredient is brown rice syrup. Just in case you're wondering..)
Posted by: Chris (i-cjw.com) | August 1, 2008 01:20 PM
Nice colors in these photos.
Posted by: Kirt Cathey | August 5, 2008 11:01 PM