Monthly Archives: June 2019

I received an email from my mom. Every time when I hear from her, I get scared. I pray first that the email will be good news, before I open her email. My mom was not good at communicating through written words. Especially right now, her email contains lots of typos and wrong grammar inContinue reading “Firm belief 6/30/2019”

This morning when I opened the entrance door to go for a walk, I was welcomed by a rainbow. It was beautiful. The colors of the rainbow were vivid and clear. It started from red, followed by orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and ended with violet. The weather report has predicted that the monsoon inContinue reading “First Monsoon day of this year 6/29/2019”

Yesterday one of my daughter’s wishes came true. Technically speaking I made it happen. I created an email account for her. It was her very first email account. I announced her new email address to my husband and in-laws. This morning my mother-in-law sent a very first email to my daughter. I let my daughterContinue reading “Email debut 6/28/2019”

Yesterday my mom sent me an email. According to her, my parents are having tough days. My mom started having a chemotherapy. I totally forgot about the chemotherapy. Right after I heard that the surgery for my mom was a minor one, I was so relieved that I almost forgot about the real cause. AsContinue reading “Fully trusting 6/27/2019”

After I witnessed my neighbor’s reaction to a snake, I have been thinking about our tree. We have a big palm tree in the front yard. The palm tree seemed to never have had a trimming before we moved in. Last year we trimmed it very nicely. We hoped the tree would stay in theContinue reading “Palm Tree trimming 6/26/2019”

The other day while I was walking in the neighborhood area, one neighbor started talking to me. He had a huge cactus bush in his front yard. It was facing to the street where everybody walks beside of it. He told me to be careful while walking the side of his cactus bush. He sawContinue reading “Snake’s hiding place 6/25/2019”

Yesterday my friend introduced me about the book and the card deck that have been popular in Japan. It is called Kusuri-e. It means “healing art.” The creator and author is 丸山 修寛 (Nobuhiro Maruyama). You can see and read more about him and his works in his official homepage. If you are an EnglishContinue reading “Kusuri-e 6/24/2019”

This weekend my family and I made great progress. My Japanese friends will visit us in next month. We have been busy organizing and cleaning the house so that they will be able to enjoy their stay at our house. We decided to create a private room for them in my computer room. We movedContinue reading “Rearranging rooms 6/23/2019”

I read some articles that balsamic vinegar can be great medicine for diabetes. In my case I need to cleanse my blood system. I decided to cook balsamic vinegar onion with balsamic vinegar and eat it every day for a while. Both of the ingredients are helpful to make our blood flow smoothly. It wasContinue reading “Balsamic vinegar onion 6/22/2019”

I received a text message from my realtor. It was not pleasant news. She mentioned the local hardware store messed up her order of the gas stove. She ordered it on June 3rd. It was scheduled to arrive at the store in the next week. So, if everything had gone well, I would have hadContinue reading “The road to a gas stove – unwanted extra step 6/21/2019”