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[非公開] What Gaijin Eat: Mystery Meat
What Gaijin Eat... This is the latest installment of my series to answer the most asked question from Japanese people to foreigners in Japan. What do gaijin (foreigners) eat? If you are "sensitive" you may want to click away. If you are ready for the truth, read on. This is what the typical foreigner in Japan eats. Warning: This may not be for sensitive readers - before writing this post and ..bastish.net|2010-07-28 11:57 am推薦 -
[非公開] Cause if I want to, Who's gonna s..
Mona plays her drum along to "Totally Nude" by the Talking Heads. The day after my parents left was the official end of the rainy season, and was it ever. Fierce heat and humidity. I will be getting a lot of inside work done where there is a nice fan, but it also means I have to be up early to do outside work while it is still cool. Mona seems to enjoy finally being able to crawl (mostly roll..bastish.net|2010-07-22 05:21 pm推薦 -
[非公開] Grandma & Grandpa
My sister already posted photos of Mom & Dad and her kids in Korea, so guess I better do so too. Since mom and dad left, we have been gittin' little done. I had a loooong fire brigade ceremony on the second day of official "non-rainy summer" = hot hot hot sun. And we have to wear thick black uniforms in layers as we stand at attention and listen to "important" people talk for hours. It was not ..bastish.net|2010-07-21 09:27 pm推薦 -
[非公開] Wonderful Quilt.
I know, I know. Too much Mona. But, I have nothing else. Mona is enjoying a quilt sent along with my parents, It was quilted by my childhood neighbor Bonnie, from when I lived in Michigan. I have not seen for probably 20 years, but remember, among other things, playing with Star-Wars action figures by their fireplace and in their fern tree with her son, Ryan.bastish.net|2010-07-17 08:54 pm推薦 -
[非公開] Oyabaka III (can you blame me?)
I feel so bad about not getting many photos of mom and dad this past week, but can you blame me? At least I have photos of all of Mona's new toys (from mom and dad) which she enjoys almost as much as I do.bastish.net|2010-07-16 11:38 pm推薦 -
[非公開] Future Plumber?
Mom and dad arrived last night. Now hopefully I can get some of the home-improvement projects done that I have been saving to keep dad busy. Mom... well, her job is to clean the poop off of a pile of wool freshly shaven from a sheep. In other news, Tomoe, who was vehemently against me buying a MacBook (and anything Mac in general), just got a MacBook of her own to replace her piece-of-crap de..bastish.net|2010-07-08 08:26 am推薦 -
[非公開] Mona In the Morning
Just a short video for mom of mona this morning. She loves her bathrobe. I have neglected taking much video of her, but have decided to do a daily shoot on my web cam. The only problem is that the camera is right above the screen, and when she can see the screen she becomes memorized and doesn't act like normal.bastish.net|2010-07-04 01:02 am推薦 -
[非公開] Mona Pulls Her Weight
NOTE: I highly recommend that some people (such as mom) clicks on the photos to see the larger version. We have spent the past few days trying to make it look, to my parents who will be visiting next week, that we actually do something here. Our mochi rice field is a lost cause. soooooo many weeds. We are going to scythe them all down and plant soba instead. The rice is doing amazingly well. I ..bastish.net|2010-07-02 12:16 am推薦 -
[非公開] Where the taxes go
I am recuperating from a half day of boring fire-brigade ceremony, and a longer half-day of slightly less boring drinking with the crew (apparently it got less boring as the afternoon wore on.) I know I post photos of the fire brigade every year at this time, but it just sucks up so much of my time and I have to find some way to make it more interesting. The novelty of how rigid and ridicul..bastish.net|2010-06-28 01:24 pm推薦 -
[非公開] Best since the last best that was befo..
So, I know I have said this before, but last week we had our best customers since our last best customers. This time it was a family of three who, after we turned them down, persisted and went so far as to get a Japanese travel agent to hound us on their behalf. How could we resist? I am glad we didn't. Above is the family with Tomoe and Mona and some of our favorite inn-keepers (I highly HIG..bastish.net|2010-06-24 10:31 pm推薦
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