Early July

We are in the final days of the rainy season and are enjoying the relatively cooler days before the real oppressive heat is upon us.  I have three more days of crosswalk guard duty before summer vacation begins and except for two days last week, the mornings have been pleasant.  This year the rainy season began late and maybe it is lingering....

The only big news around here is that Tetsu and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversery.  We decided to go out for lunch at a somewhat trendy restaurant that specializes in vegetables.  It is not quite a vegetarian restaurant but one could sure go that direction which I did.  

I had Bagna cauda, a dish with a garlic and anchovy sauce and probably 20 different morsels of vegetables cooked one way or another.  It was fantastic!  There was also a salad bar so I really got my daily portion of vegetables this day!

I got semi dressed up for our anniversery lunch but Tetsu was in his usual summer attire of t-shirts, baseball cap and shorts.  

I can't complain... I got a great lunch out of it!

Though I don't have a photo to show of my battle with my computer, that took up a lot of my time this week!  Sigh...  Alas, though I thought my computer woes were over last month when my friend spent two days helping me out, the computer started acting up again this weekend and I threw myself on the mercy of my friend AGAIN!!!  I took the computer back to his house and even left for the next two days while he and his son tossed around ideas about why the computer was not functioning normally and what could be done.  The next day my computer was delivered back to me saying that it had been reset to the original version and was working normally again.

That was FANTASTIC and so far everything is back to normal HOWEVER...  Because the computer was reset, I'd lost the browser I'd installed and all the tabs that I'd normally used.  It took some brainpower for me to get those all back again...  I had to reinstall a couple software that I use regularly, another mind-boggling activity for me, and then had to go back and verify myself on the websites where I have subscriptions.  THAT didn't work so well, especially the SKILLSHARE website that I use daily so I contacted their support team and asked for help.  Let me enthuse about how helpful SKILLSHARE was about getting my account back up and running!!!  They reached out with personal service and were professional and kind about my problems (of course due to my own mix-up about passwords and mail addresses).  I have been so happy using the SKILLSHARE tutorials for my drawing journey and their kind assistance gave them a gold star in my book!

I didn't have such great reviews of my home bank in the States however because I could no longer get back into my bank account because the reset computer no longer could be confirmed in their files I guess, and I had to get Leiya to come to my aid with that problem...  But that too has been solved.  YEAH!  I hope I can forget about this computer from now on...  

One of the last drawings from a drawing class on loose sketching before my computer crashed on me...  No, I haven't been to the beach lately...

Another loose drawing, this time of the cicada that I fin on the trees and grasses around my house.  I really like the loose sketches of some of the artists that I follow but I can't tell if mine are artistic or just scribbly...

Not a whole lot of photos from Leiya but here is a photo of Taiga who is now smiling more and can hold his head up and enjoy the world!

And here is a refreshing view of the countryside outside our bedroom window.  We get some glorious sunsets!