From the early morning the sky was covered by lots of rain clouds. Although the weather report says there is 0% of precipitation, we did have female rain around the noon time. Not only us humans but also all the plants are now happy for the gentle rain.

I could harvest lots of produces from our backyard garden. Full amount of two big bawls. We have strawberries, salad leaves, green onions, tomatoes, kale, amaranth leaves, arugula, and chard. There are lots of watermelon babies growing. Kabocha is growing but no female flowers yet.

I feel so rich with the produces came from our garden. Thank you to all the plants in our garden.

On our last visit to Navajoland, my mom in law bought me a blue berry plant. After I came back from the trip, I had been busy for the daily chores, so I put the plant pot as-is inside of the netted garden. This morning, I had my energy back and replanted the plant in the soil. Even right after replanted, the blue berry plant looked totally healthy. I hope it will grow well so that I can bring some blue berries to share with my mom-in-law on our next visit.

In our garden, I found 4 baby watermelons. They are still tiny and cute. I am so excited to check on them every morning on how they are doing. The monsoon is just around the corner. Once the monsoon comes, all the plants will grow much stronger and healthier than now. Maybe another one more week or sooner than that.

This morning, we made a couple of phone calls regarding the water pipe on the Navajo homesite. Last summer when we submitted the application, the worker mentioned it would take about 6 to 8 months for them to install. We haven’t heard anything from them. During our last visit on Navajoland last month, when we stopped by at their office, we dealt with the issue. The female worker said that they don’t have our application form, which means they had lost it, and that we would need to start over by submitting the same application form. Then a couple of hours later, we received a phone call from their office, but from the different male worker. He said they found our application form and they would process it. He promised us that he would call us again on the next Monday or Tuesday. He also asked us to call them back if we don’t hear from him. Then, the worker forgot to call us, and my husband forgot to call him back.

This morning when we call them back, the different female worker picked up the phone. She said that we would need to prepare all the equipment of bathroom such as a toilet ball, a shower, a sink, and an entire kitchen set for them to proceed the water piping work, which was totally different from what we heard. Since our application of the homesite, we were told to prepare a structure form them to lay a water pipe. We double-checked if it is okay to have a shed only, and the worker confirmed it is fine.

I hope we will be guided to the right person who can fix this issue right away and arrange the workers to lay water pipes for us.  

It was an extremely hot day. While we were heading to Tucson, the weather report said it would be 114F (45.5C). Indeed, it was extremely hot. After we ended hiking in the morning at the Arizona Sonora museum, the temperature of our car indicated the inside of the car was 122F (50C).

We went to the casino for lunch. I didn’t have much appetite so I only had some of their desert. Last time I won $78, but today I didn’t win anything. It was okay though. I had fun anyway.

I have been searching for a weekly mansion in Japan while I am visiting there. I could not find any properties so far. Three companies replied back to me. One company starts accepting a reservation 2-month prior of the arrival date, and the other two companies starts 1 month prior of the arrival date. I also contacted one of my acquaintances who is a realtor. He introduced me two properties but their conditions do not match with my expectations, so that I needed to politely turn down their offers. I know everything will go well in the end. I will keep searching for the property that is the best match for me.

In the evening at 6 p.m., I chatted with my Japanese friends via zoom regarding our upcoming Kyoto trip. I am so excited to spend one night with them together and do a sightseeing of Kyoto.

My friend just started the professional homeopath course. She was a bit overwhelmed by its whole bunch of information and class curriculum. I remember I felt the same way as she does. I know she will fully enjoy this class.

In the afternoon, I took my daughter to the local college to pick up her ceramic artworks. They were all nicely done. I am glad she had a great time there at the summer camp.

In the evening at 6 p.m., I had an online meeting with my attorney. About 10 minutes after we finished our conversation, we had an electricity outage. We went for an evening walk, there, we run into many of our neighbors standing outside of their entrance door, asking us if we had the outage or not. I felt relieved to know we were not the only one who were experiencing the electricity outage. Then we received a text message from the electric company to inform us of their expected recover time being 10 p.m. after we came back home, we placed several LED emergency lights here and there throughout the house. After the procedure, the electricity was back on. It was 2 hours quicker than their expected recover time, and I am grateful for that.

It was another extreme hot day. My daughter finally got out from bed after 9 a.m. She must have been intense for the past one week while she attended the summer camp.

In the afternoon, the sky was covered by huge dark rain clouds. I was hoping it will rain in the evening, but it didn’t.  

Recently our water melon plants have been growing a lot. Today I noticed there are several female flowers close to the ground. I will keep an eye on them every morning. I might need to hand-pollinate.