Where is my Brother?

 
 
yay!! my fine young daughter downloaded a ton of photos for you all to enjoy!!!!!!   She took a gazillion of her halloween party  and i took a few at her soccer match…. the pottery pumpkin was made by our neighbor… when we do trick-or-treating, the houses participating light clay pumpkins in front of their houses…..
finally some [...]

a whole month since i have blogged….. i am still here, knitting , sewing and in fact trying to cut down and remove the tree in front of the house… branch by branch….
the swine flu is cancelling club activities and school, but we 5 all remain strong and healthy….and with the cooling weather of fall , the decrease in [...]

a caterpillar and a frog.

we went camping again.
i finished my sock.
it’s raining.
i have cast on another sock so that i don’t lose my momentum.
i am reading the book “driftwood valley” now  and so is my mother.  i am looking forward to discussing it with her.

yup. it’s a sock.  no stripes. no pattern. no frills.  a wool sock.  I am nearly done with it and it has dawned on me…perhaps this is wool that will shrink. But i am going to keep right on going. finish it, knit another one and then wash them carefully in cold water and see [...]

div>these days, it’s nice to see a marriage last.  it’s nice to see a couple who love and respect each other. it’s nice to see that two people stick it out, through thick and through thin, through sickness and through health, through good times and through bad times.   so far, my mom and dad have [...]

still here, not much to say.
knitting and sewing and looking forward to cooler temperatures…. still at least 30 C. (86 F.) each day, but mornings and evenings are cooler and much more pleasant.
Yay.

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Aug.. 13, 14 and 15 is O-BON in Japan. It is a festival for the dead, with family reuniouns and visits to graves and BON dancing around taiko drums and traditional music…
Local Nagasaki people stay out of the ocean (and even pools) because the gates to and from hell are open [...]

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p>spent three weeks hanging out with family and now we are back safely in Nagasaki.
Seems that while we were gone, we missed typhoons and earthquakes that didn’t have any affect on Nagasaki or our flight from Vancouver B.C.to Narita airport (Tokyo…)
We are back, suffering from the humidity and lingering jet-lag… but otherwise enjoying getting back [...]