It is already Sept 1st here in Japan... and the children were chatting in the streets down at the bottom of the blufff this morning as they walked along the street back to school. I too,am sending my Sept 1st HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to my dear friend MICHELLE and great niece AMAYA JEAN..Hope you both have a great day and fun celebrating with friends and family. Make a wish and BloooooooW !!!
CJ and I had a nice relaxing weekend as we had nothing planned. We just lounged around and hung out in the house alot (still raining off and on), did some book work, made plane arrangements, completed work expense reports, watched a bit of TV, answered some Emails, chatted with the kids on the phone, went for a walk and did a little shopping...
We had fresh salmon or trout (we are not sure what the label said?) for supper last night.I can't write the name here for those of you who know Japanese to help me, as I don't have Japanese or Chinese characters on my compuer keyboard either. :-( CJ cooked it in our special fish grilling section of the stove. It was delicious! Sad to say, but that actually was our 1st fresh fish we have eaten since we've been here,...at home anyways. We talked of trying to buy, bake/grill and eat a different kind of fresh fish each week from here on out? With the special stove and vent, it did not smell up the house and that part I of course liked too,...so who knows maybe we will now eat it more often?
I know, I know..."we should be taking advantage of it since we have so much fresh stuff at our immediate disposable".....yadayada..don't ya think I have heard that one before? :-) haha
We also took a walk through Harbor Park for a view of the city since it was actually kind of a clear day on our way to the Homes store. We passed by a wedding getting ready to start and I wanted to get some pics of a traditonal Japanese bride. I got one through the fence and then my view was blocked as all the "tall" Japanese guests stood up when she got to the flower covered arbor and I then realized how very tiny she was. I could all at once see no more of her nor the man escorting her down the outdoor aisle.Darn!
We found a TV stand at Homes and so we can now get it up off the floor and more at eye level. That will be delivered when we return from China next week. "Lion" and "Tiger" the two guys who helped us with our other furniture purchases awhile back, were there again, and they were very happy to receive the little furry animal trinkets I got for them when back in the states. They both smiled,laughed,bowed and thanked me for the furry key chain like creatures as they stuffed them in the front pocket of their white work shirts. We too,finally purchased our other 2 guest bed futons and are now ready for our first guests to arrive. Guess making the plane arrangements earlier in the morning made it all real, and spurred us on to get that taken care of as well. :-)
It was finally a cooler and less humid night, with a little bit of misty sprinkling going on and so CJ and I sat on the track of our living room sliding patio door which overlooks the Japanese garden and enjoyed a bit of the fresh night air. We listened to all the crickets chirping away as the rain drops wet our bare feet and toes that were stretched out and sticking beyond the roof overhang. We are looking forward to the fall when we can sit outside on our lawn chairs and enjoy our patio and garden area more. It has been either too hot and humid or too darn rainy. As we sat there, I thought to myself, we really haven't been outside much at night nor have we had our windows open either...and so it is a whole other world to get to know and experience. :-)
It was so peaceful and private with all the trees and bushes around the perimeter of our lot closing off and making such a nice little haven of solitude for us. We too noticed that at night the cicadas sleep or at least rest their voices and the crickets take over and give us their own special musical version type concert. I enjoyed hearing my bell chime tinkle in the breeze too, but I think I like our style of chimes from back home better. I will have to bring my one off the back porch back with me...it has several different length tubes on it and it makes more melodic tunes which I find more soothing to my ears than the one single bell tone.
Today I am supposed to be packing for my trip to China on Wednesday, but I got on this computer again and can't seem to pull myself away from it. I need to do some laundry too and tomorrow I will vacumn, dust and clean the bathrooms, as I always like to come home to a clean and fresh smelling house when I return from a trip.
CJ will be home in a few hours, to go to the docter and have his elbow looked at. Hopefully it will be nothing serious? It has caused him a tiny bit of pain here and there, but we are more concerned about the fluid buildup and why it does not recede?
The sun by the way has been shining all day so far and already it is 2:00pm.Yea!!Maybe the rain is over for a bit? I hope it will be in China too.
It feels good to have the house windows all open today and to feel the nice gentle warm breezes blowing through the house and rustling the bright red curtains and blinds on the windows and doors. Yes perhaps fall is just around the corner here in Japan? Who knows, as it will be another first for us to experience, and we are looking forward to seeing how all the parks and garden areas will look dressed in their colorful fall foliage. I too am still waiting to see and wondering what happens to all the cicadas when their season comes to an end, or does it?...um so many mysteries to life here in Japan.
Ok I really have got to go and start my packing...because I just saw a bigger spider than I like to think is in my house. :-( He just posed for a photo with an eraser on the end of a pencil to show you his approximate size and then quickly crawled back into the air conditioner. I immediately turned it on cold so hopefully he will freeze to death and not come visit me in my bed later tonight as well. Go away daddy long legs I am not Miss Muffet nor Charlotte. Now how does that song go...The Itsy Bitsy spider went up the...down came the rain ...out came the sun..and dried up all the rain...and the Itsy Bitsy spider went...."NOT to Karla's house"...I'm telling you, that is not the way the song goes !!!
So my suitcase is packed and now for the backpack with my computer,reading supplies, Japanese language books so hopefully I can totally confuse myself while over in China with both the Chinese and Japanese languages... or who knows... maybe alot will be similar?
CJ just got back from the doctor and all is well just an aggrevated old injury and they drained the yellow fluid from his elbow and wrapped it. Doc told him to keep it wrapped tonight so it doesn't refill. It will probably refill again in the days ahead and he said to come back if it gets unsightly. Total visit 6500yen. CJ was flabergasted and figured the same procedure that was done in his regular office with CJ's arm hanging over the chair back would probably cost $400.00 or more back in the states. Now don't you think someone is making a bit more money than necessary?
Off to make dinner and maybe watch a movie since CJ is home early. Perhaps we can actually stay awake to see the whole thing ?
Kon ban wa
Karla and Chuck-san
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