Autumn in Sakae

Just a few more gratuitous autumn-in-the-country shots. You see here walnuts, tochi (horse-chestnuts), millet, beans, onions, and some other stuff.

Sorry I don't have more time to write. Despite putting a freeze on customers, we are still stuck with lots to do. Among the top five is get ready for the TV crew that will be coming (yet again) in two days to film me harvesting rice that should have been harvested a week ago, but we left it for them. It was supposed to be a three day shoot, but they keep coming back. I don't know if it is because they can't get enough of me, or because they can't get enough *good* footage of me to make a simple ten-minute story...

In this last photo you can see our rice field and our rice drying. We were the first to start harvesting, but the last to finish. Scandalous!