In our neighborhood street, I found unfamiliar objects. They were huge animal wastes. The weird thing is that they were located in the center of the asphalted road. And they were in an unbelievably huge pile that I never saw before.

I thought they were from a huge dog, but it was hard for me to believe so, because I never saw dogs wasted in the center of road.

Later in the afternoon, I found out they were from bobcats. The wastes exactly look alike to that of bobcats in the Internet pages.

Now that I am sure they are from bobcats, I feel uneasy. From the sizes of them, I can easily presume the bobcats are huge in size. I guess they have started visiting in this residence area searching for food. Some neighbors’ trash bins were knocked down and trashed foods were eaten. Maybe it was done by bobcats.

Maybe I should report to the local police about my finding, so that they can send out a note to warn all the neighbors to tighten their trash bin during night.   

As the third step of closing my small business, I decided to close this homepage. Since I already paid for annual fee for this homepage, I selected not to auto-renew. So, this page will be unavailable on February 5th 2020.

After the date, I will find the free blog and start writing my short article every day.

I am not sure what kind of readers this page has. According to the visitors’ log, I have some constant readers in other countries such as India, Malaysia, Canada, and China.

Thank you for visiting my homepage.

As the second step of closing my small business, I went to the local bank and closed my business bank account. The bank teller could not close my business credit card in their branch, so that I needed to call to the different number to request its closing.

These two tasks were done without any issues.

I decided to close my small business.

I established my small business with the help of two business mentors in 2016. In these three years, I fully noticed I am not good at doing my own business. I appreciate to my two business mentors and feel sorry that I could not meet their expectation.

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As the first step of closing my business, I closed my Facebook Page account.

Thank you to the people who liked my Page.

This evening the maintenance person came to our house and installed a carbon monoxide detector. My family and I have known this man for these six years. He is a husband of the realtor who deals with our renting property.

My family and I like him a lot. He is friendly and easy to talk with. He always greets us with saying our first name and shake hands.

I knew this man is nothing to do with the recent rent increase. But since he is the husband of the realtor, I wanted at least to ask him to send his wife a message on how we felt about the rent increase.

They recently increased the rent amount. I really hope they had done in a little nicer way than what she actually did.

The realtor’s rent increase notice letter arrived at our house just one month prior from the increase activation month. And the rent was increased by $100 a month.

I hope she had noticed us at least three months prior. I also hope she had increased the amount little by little.

I talked with my friend. She is currently renting an apartment. She also experienced the rent increase, but in a much nicer way that we went through.

Her apartment informed all the tenants three month prior, and the increased amount was only $20. I think this is the proper way to increase the rent.

I talked with the realtor’s husband from my heart. This was all I could do for now on my part. I sincerely hope the realtor listened to our request and take the proper action. I sincerely treat other people as nice as I can, so that I deserve to be treated in the same way as I do to others.

My friend and I went for our routine “Sunday evening walk.” We walked 4 miles (6.4 km) for 1.5 hours.

I came back home sweating all over the body.

I enjoy talking and walking with my new friend.

It was a peaceful weekend.

This morning our local town had the Christmas parade. It was supported by the local Fire Department and the local volunteers. They threw candies to the audience by the street.

We couldn’t go see the parade this year due to some chores in town.

After I came back home from chores, I saw some evidences of the parade. There were some candies as well as a pile of horse manure here and there on the street. I am sure the parade was successful and fun.

My daughter’s school had a music concert.

Before I left home, I told myself not to cry. For previous years, I would always cry when I listened to kids’ songs. Their voices were holy and pure. I was touched. I would feel embarrassed for my crying though.

This year, my daughter’s teacher didn’t choose the Christmas related songs. Their song was about The Flag of the United States of American.

Regardless of my strong determination, I cried again. I could hold my tears when my daughter’s class sang the song. The lyrics contained they are proud to be Americans. The lyrics touched my soul.

Maybe, I am becoming an American. I started loving this country and the people here.

I woke up with a clear image of my dream this morning.

In my dream I was visiting my uncle in his house in Japan. My daughter was with me. My uncle was happy to see my daughter. He was nicely talking to my daughter.

There, I saw my parents too. We all had a good conversation and shared hot meals together.

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When I woke up, I noticed I miss my uncle.

He is a younger brother of my dad. My uncle and my dad have been best friends all their life. They are very close to each other.

I haven’t seen him for years. Last time I saw him was maybe when I was 35 years old or so. When I married, my parents told me my marriage with a foreigner is an embarrassing. My parents asked me not to tell of my marriage to any of my relatives. Therefore, I haven’t seen my uncle ever since.

My uncle is an open minded person. If I could mention about my international marriage and our daughter, he will be for sure happy for me and my family.

I take things positively.

The fact my uncle showed up in my dream means a lot to me. It means he also misses me and thinks of me. Maybe he wants to see me and my family in person. I believe in fate. If we are supposed to see each other in person again, it will happen naturally. If not, it is still okay. I can see him in my dream world.