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Last week Anthony got together with a friend, Kenny, for some play by Kyoto's Kamogawa river... The water level is about the lowest it ever gets (compare to almost flood level), which allowed the boys to climb down and throw rocks... Of course, the first thing on the agenda was throwing rocks, which all kids [...]
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Other than tying my shoes and a necktie, I don't often come across a situation where I need to tie a knot, but when I do, I usually feel stupid trying to come up with something appropriate. The one exception is when I want to cinch something tight (a clothesline, a tent guy string) and [...]
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I got a call today that the nearby Eikando Temple was bathed in some gorgeous late-afternoon peeking-through-some-storm-clouds sun, so I thought I'd go and take a look. It's always absolutely amazing during the fall-foliage season, even in the rain, so I knew I couldn't lose, but it became all the better when Anthony said he [...]
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As I mentioned the other day, we paid a visit to 大久野島 (Okunoshima), also known as "Bunny Island" because it's populated by "wild" rabbits that have no hesitation to appear in great numbers at the slightest suggestion of food. You can get a cup of bunny-food pellets for 100 yen (US$1.25), and even borrow gloves [...]
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Thanks to all who responded to my request the other day on something to do near Rt77 between Cleveland and Charlotte. I followed up on one of the suggestions and ended up stopping by Cantrell Ultimate Rafting in Hinton, West Virgina, for a two-man "duckie" (inflatable canoe) trip... Then we headed a bit south to [...]
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So the other day I cooked dinner, a stir-fry with various separate ingredients that I intended to bind together by simmering in tomato sauce. However, I hadn't paid enough attention to what I had on hand, and the can of tomato sauce turned out to be a can of cut tomatoes in water. The result [...]
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Anthony's cousin Nao (七音), a little healthy girl, was born on Monday to his Aunt Namiko and Uncle Shogo (Uncle Shogo being Anthony's mommy's brother), about nine months nineteen hours after they exchanged vows. All are doing well. Anthony felt that she was heavy, because, it turns out, that he felt the weight of responsibility [...]
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As I mentioned three months ago in "Anthony Lego World #27", 8½-year-old Anthony likes to build complex scenes in LEGO™ (of which he has a lot). Recently he made a big Clone Wars battle scene. He took a bunch of pictures of it, as did I, then we went through and picked the ones he [...]
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Anthony's friend Gen stayed over last night, so this morning they had an early start on play. They built a complex world of PlayRail and LEGO. It seems to involve rapelling Star Wars clones... Actually, that one bowl of soumen was for all four of us, but before eating they hammed it up for the [...]
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Yesterday we went with Fumie's folks for an early dinner at the Kiyamachi branch of Hiro (京の焼肉処 弘), a small upscale yakiniku restaurant, overlooking Kyoto's Kamogawa river. From April to September, ninety or so restaurants along the river erect terraces over the small side river that parallels the larger Kamo river. It's quite nice if [...]
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We tried a bit of grass skiing the other day, at a mostly-deserted ski resort in northern Hyogo Prefecture, about three hours away by car. It was a bit of déjà vu for me because like the last time I tried to go skiing in Japan (with a former girlfriend 20 years ago), we found [...]
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I often make the short drive up to the Shogunzuka overlook to catch the sunset or just enjoy the nice view, but it's usually to the public overlook, and only a few times to the actual Shogunzuka gardens next door (500 yen to enter... about $6). I should go more, because it's quite pretty in [...]
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Anthony returned home from school yesterday with a little pill bug he'd found and carried carefully in his hands for the half-hour bus ride. He thought it was extremely cute and wanted to keep it as a pet, so we put some wet dirt and grass into a Tupperware dish for the bug's new home. [...]
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Because I know everyone is so excited at the prospect of hearing even more about the Towel Museum, I'm following up right away to yesterday's "The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 1" with Part 2 today. Be forewarned, though, that today's post is more of a gluttony of Moominanalia mixed with unabashed "my kid [...]
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Anthony started third grade this morning, which means that we had one free day yesterday after our recent short trip to Imabari, so we paid a visit to his kindergarten friend, Monet, who also starts third grade, but at a different school. Monet's sister, May, starts first grade tomorrow. We all then took a walk [...]
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Just as last year, Anthony's class made their own yearbook, with the cover composed of self portraits by each kid and the teacher. The Japanese school year runs April to March, so now they're in the spring break between grades. Anthony starts third grade in a couple of weeks. The quality of many kids' self [...]
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We've had this giraffe sitting in front of the window in the living room for quite a while now, but now that Anthony's done with second grade, it'll probably be replaced soon with something from the new school year, which starts in a couple of weeks. Anthony probably has more pure imagination than raw artistic [...]
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Anthony's Lego World #27 (scroll side-to-side) Anyone following my blog knows how much Anthony likes LEGO™, and one form of play he likes lately is to create a complex scene showing many different facts of life in whatever universe he's thinking of at the moment. Here's one from last month that I snapped some pictures [...]
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We got this great shot from the swimming school of Anthony during his lesson last month. Props to the photographer. Posted with permission.
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My 8-year-old son, Anthony, came into my den while I was watching video of the devastating tsunami that hit up north a few days ago. We're untouched here in Kyoto, but of course he's heard that some bad event happened. I showed him a few of the less graphic videos, and described a bit about [...]
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