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The Sleep-Over
Ken thinks I have “Lazy Brain.” He may be right. Let me tell you the latest incident why. Yumiko has been to two sleep-overs since we have been here in Japan. A sleep-over, for those who may not know, is when you invite a bunch of kids over to your house for a…
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More Pictures From China
First Photo: Liu Fei and Son Zuyuan Second Photo: From Left: Nancy Hu, Wonderful Wang Ping and Mrs. Guo Third Photo: Toasting with Mr. Zheng Fourth Photo: Ken, Yumiko and Takae in Xian Last Photo: Takae and Yumiko in Forbidden City
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Wonderful Friends and a Great Trip
It’s Saturday afternoon. We got back from our whirl-wind tour of China late Thursday night. We had a truly wonderful time. Ken’s sister Takae San had never been to China before and we wanted to introduce her to that wonderful country as well as our good friends from the ASTM days. Our first stop…
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We’re Back
We are back from a wonderful trip to Beijing, Xian and Shanghai. There are many stories to tell, but it is late Friday night and we need to recharge the old, old batteries. I’ll be back tomorrow with more photos and hopefully some good stories. Here’s one picture of the Wall in Xian at…
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Beijing Tomorrow – Harikari Today
The three of us Kono’s are getting up tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. and will fly to Beijing with Ken’s sister Takae San. We’ll be back next Thursday. In the meantime, here’s a photo of Yumiko for this week’s class on “No Color – Color” photos. Oh yeah, for those of you who read…
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The Grand Canyon Slide Show
I said in a recent blog that Mr. Takada at the City Hall was probably the nicest person on earth. I may have been too quick in that judgement as Ken’s brother Tokuya San is either tied for first or maybe a close second. Ken’s brother has been so kind to us ever since…
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Five Visits to the City Hall
It’s just about 11:00 a.m. on Monday. Ken and I left the house early this morning to go back to the City Hall to meet with Mr. Takada, our case manager. Mr. Takada is the nicest person on earth. He is a small, well built Japanese man. He is balding on the top and…
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Warm and Cool
This week’s photo assignment is to find subjects to photograph that have both warm and cool colors. If a subject is predominantly warm, the photograph should not have more than 25% of the cool color. And vice versa. I had fun this afternoon in the Aoyama Cemetery scouting out warm and cool. Here’s what…
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Foot on Head and other Stretchy Moves
It’s been a long day. Yumiko had her play at school last night and tonight. I sat through both performances and loved it all. They were great. Her middle school principal was an actor in a former life and he put his heart and soul into creating and directing a 90 minute show that…
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Computer Adventure
Oh, what a time we had on Sunday. It was about 10:30 a.m. Yumiko and I were both working on our computers. Yumiko asked me to take a look at her screen. She had been experimenting by taking the software icons off her “docking station” and putting them somewhere else on her computer so…