Wrapping up the month...

July was a dilly because of the heat and because of it, not a lot got done.  I gave up walking to the school the last week before summer vacation and so I'm not getting much exercise at all...  Covid has hit Japan hard and even Tetsu, the die-hard "let's go to the pool" (for the bath, not so much for the swimming) has shaken his head to being in a public place with people we don't know.  Our eating habits have plummeted because the only thing that sounds good are ice-cream and popcicles and munchies...  I'm all for closing up the cooking side of the kitchen in this heat!!

We have some pretty rough thunder and lightning storms with sheets of rain and once last week our part of the city lost power for about three hours!  No air-conditioning or even electric fan with the electricity off, and we had to have all the windows closed because of the rain pelting the windows...  I tell you!  It was like a sauna inside!!!  Tetsu heroically saved the popcicles before they melted by heating a couple of them... but luckily the electricity came back on before anything else had to be consumed...

The storms make for some beautiful sunsets though and so a couple of evenings we were hanging out the windows with our cameras to take pictures!

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Luka update!  Luka is a little more than a year and a half now and he is having some great experiences!  

The neighborhood deer come for a visit.  (The deer is in the right corner.)

Luka loves the pots and pans drawer.  (Of course!)

The family got to a very nice aquarium.

And Luka also got to the zoo!

I have no idea where this was taken but it's a pretty cute picture.

And Luka has started swim lessons!  That's very exciting.

My Indiana family.