June is going by nicely and we've actually had some cooler days. Enjoy it while we can! Summer will be upon us soon and I recall the heat and fear of heatstroke last year!
Tetsu enjoys sitting in his garden and soon the blueberries will be ready to harvest.
(A couple of the sketches I did of Tetsu's garden for a sketching challenge)
My friend, Nobuko-san, and her daughter visited us while they were in Nikko and we took them to various places near us and spent the day together.
There ia a little-known area near the temples of Nikko that have 70 some of these little stone statues along the hiking path. The legend is that if you walk along the path one way and count the statues, that on the way back there will be a different number. We didn't try to count all of them...
The construction continues behind our house though it is moving farther to where the actual factory is going to be (we will just have the road leading to the factory behind us). Even so, the house has been shaking as the site is being bored and tamped down etc.
This the view in the other direction with the new road leading to where the factory entrance will start. The road drastically narrows to meet the original road right next to my kitchen. That road used to meander through a forest and wasn't wide enough to service two cars abreast. Now look at it! Even a sidewalk!
Here I am standing where the forest used to be at the to-be-built factory entrance. The first house there on the left is our house with the other houses in the neighborhood also bordering the factory property line.
As far as we can predict, our view of Mt. Nantai will not be interrupted from our bedroom window once the road is completed though the factory is planning to put in landscaping with some trees and lawn along their property. Hopefully the trees won't be too big at least for a few years.
Look at that magnificent sunset I caught the other night!
We are getting rainy days and even had a typhoon that resulted in school being canceled in Nikko. The trees were really bending wildly and everyone was warned to stay away from rivers and the seaside. (No seaside where I live).
I used the extra day to finish up the wall hanging that I had been working on. I just wanted to see what effect I could get using black bias tape (which I ended up having to make myself as the store no longer carried the width of tape I needed.)
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Luka-kun graduated from pre-school this month.
Both Taiga-kun and Luka-kun enjoy playing in the water and going to the local pool. I couldn't tell at first if this was Luka or Taiga! (I'm pretty sure this is Taiga).
Having a picnic in their backyard.
Actually Leiya's family is planning to move this month so she's been doing a lot of cleaning, rearranging family schedules to accomodate realators, and traveling (to find new living arrangements!) More on that later. I loved the house that they've been in these past 5 years.
Takumi celebrated his 41st birthday.
Happy Birthday, Takumi!
And that's about it for this month so far.
Off to bed!
Off to bed!
