Still no real-time blogging, there's snow outside the window in the last photo! And I have to get back to Japan pictures. It's a busy time of year, and the most wonderful too. V's birth month starts the summer, so there's all this yard work and invitation & present & party preparations. The best works there are. I did some sewing today and I'm very pleased with myself. Life is very scheduled and I like it. I might have become spring person.
Great books: "Isä" (father) by Hanneriina Moisseinen and "Vart ska du?" by Jockum Nordstörm. Huuda huuda is a pretty good publisher. The first one I got for Y for his birthday and I decided to keep the Jockum book myself. I don't give it to the kids because it's a folded book, like a harmonica.
Working in the yard is so tough. But fun. Bicycling is also fun but tough. I'm in a pretty bad shape! The one who wants a dog is Y. "It would be good for our health too." V would like a new kitten. Her cat (the one who was somehow hers, who chose her when we went to pick up a kitten) disappeared some days before we returned from our trip. He's been gone for one and half months now. Will we ever see him again, who knows.
Top and bottom photos are from yesterday, the others older. Little V had a haircut, his very short hair is insanely cute. He started growing his hair again. Now I will finish watching Annie Hall.
Na no hana
Dorayaki
Sakurajima & ferry
Sakurajima in Kagoshima
Anpanman
(The kids have been sick, I finished my weekend studies, we started buying furniture (second hand of course), I love flowers and intend to plant a lot of them. And we have a new (old) car that runs on bio-gas. So life is pretty good.)
Oh it will be a lot of work to go through the photos. I don't see much to show. Photos are so important for showing that it really happened though. We came straight back to the everyday life here and after a trip, then you're just back and that's it. We're hoping to get many return visits!
I've been sitting at my desk and making little pictures. They are for my final work that I'm supposed to present today. It will be a little book. Dream work but hard with no experience. After this weekend I can start digging in the garden, washing the windows, organizing all the shelves. Writing letters.
All these photos are taken in Kumamoto-ken in Kyushu.
We're back home since one week. It's white here as well. With snow. I thought we wouldn't get to see the spring arrive on the new yard! *We do get to see it. The cherry blossoms were 12 days early, the spring in Finland is one month late... The good thing about it is *.
Back home feels very nice. My own house feels pretty good after so many nights at other people's houses. Oh what good people we met on our travels! All this every day stuff that I'm used to is so nice. Rye bread, recycling, organic food in normal supermarkets, clean tap water. The people here.
I miss the good people, miso soup in the morning, spring, dark evenings, the language, hot baths, my Tokyo.
I wasn't going to write all this.
Hei, we're flying away for a while. Until spring actually!
I will miss home, V will miss the cats and school.
But we'll have an adventure! Japan it is, our destination.
(V's bed, S's paws, Renilde's potholder that is now mine via Alessandra, little V outside, N on the street, the same girls as here)
Thank you for letting me know you're there. I appreciate it a lot. I will try to mend my ways too and take the effort to say something once in a while... Having to write all those unreadable pass words is pretty horrible though. I changed my settings a bit.
My V is learning to knit at school. Her hair started to become all tangled when she's playing outside in the snow. She's sick with chicken pox right now. She also made the green thing at school, it's a horse harness. They have a wonderful handicrafts teacher.
Y has bought many new rugs lately, the one in the bottom photo is my ultimate favourite rug. I wish I had my own room and I could have it there.
Today I'm thinking about our dear friends and their newly bought summer house on an island, how to deal with arguing kids without acting like an asshole yourself, Iggy Pop and some other stuff. Trains.
We're gonna move the cloud shelf now, see you!
