| Saturday 31st March, "koiwai" |
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Mr. Toda at koiwai Farm took us for a walk in snow shoes. (HK) |
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| Saturday 30th March, "Ishigami Friends" |
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Adam and karen gave a talk at Art Talk Salon to Ishigami nooka Museum Friends。(HK) |
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| Tuesday 29th March, "Sendai Mediateque" |
| On the way back to Ukishima we stopped in Sendai to look at Sendai Mediateque and had a sushi lunch!(HK) |
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| Monday 28th March, "Mori Art Museum " |
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Story tellers show and Beauty in Silence show press opening.(HK) |
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Adam and karen. |
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Indian dinner in Roppongi with AIT lot. |
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| Sunday 27th March, "Ueno Park" |
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Already spring here. Also went to VOCA show aht Ueno no Mori Museum and Itsukushima jinja Exhibition at Tokyo Art Accademy Museum.(HK) |
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| Saturday 26th March, "Tank Set" |
| Had lunch? with David Elliot. In the afternoon we went around Hermes Ginza and Kumiko Machida show at Nishimura Gallery. I didi not very much expected from EIGO TOWN internationa party, which actually turned out to be a great fun party with lots of nice japanese young girls. We stayed at Shiomi-san's new house. (HK) |
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| Friday 25th March, "Tokyo" |
| Went to Tokyo to meet up with Adam and Karen. We took them to meet Mr. Kitagawa at Art Front Gallery first and then, Mr.Nanjo at Mori Art Museum. (HK) |
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| Thursday 24th March, "Beautiful Iwate" |
| I was invited to be a member of the board of "Promoting Beautiful Iwate Committee"?! We had nice party today to start.(HK) |
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| Sunday 20th March, "Graduates kendo Tournament" |
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| Friday 18th March, "Graduation" |
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Emily is graduationg Ukishima primary School today. (HK) |
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| Wednsday 16th March, "Mac mini" |
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Kate is getting fed up with her PMG3DT233, which is working but temparamental. Therefor we bought a new Mac mini 1.42GHz, which should be OK for a while.(HK) |
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| Tuesday 15th March, "Gordon's Birthday" |
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Happy birthday Gordon! (HK) |
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| Saturday 12th March, "Skype" |
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Spring is late this year. (HK) |
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Afternoon drove to Nango Library to see our "Seven Journeys" in the snow. |
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Mary suggested we should try "Skype" for better deal with international phone calls. So I tried to install onto kate's PMG3DT233, but brcause of too slow it did not work. Instead, I tried onto my iBook and it worked . Very clear sound and no delay. Just funtastic!!! i ordered USB phone set for better making conversation.(HK) |
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| Thursday 10th March, "Tank Set" |
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Mr.Ito helped me today to plumbing the new tank. Now we have nice clean water again.(HK) |
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| Tuesday 8th March, "Art Festa and Water Cleaner" |
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At the Iwate Museum of Art we had an opening ceremony of the Exhibition of "Iwate Art Festa". Lots of amature artists, no profressionals, seems to me a bit boring show. (HK) |
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After that in the afternoon, we drove backto Morioka again with a crane truck, which I borrowed from Kanazawa, in order to pick up our new second-hand water cleaning system tank. Mr.Takiguchi, who has designed and helped us to build the present water cleaning system in Ukishima, gave us his old stainless steel tank! |
| The water of our well in Ukishima is generaly pritty good, much better than any in the city ,off course. But we are living in the area as part of the major farming community, there is a long term accumulation of agricultural chemicals in the soil and particulary in the underground water system. In our case, a little more nitrogen in the soil built up from cheical fertilisers after years and years, which might cause Hypoxia, in blood combining with hemoglobin. Our privious ion-exchange water cleaning system will manage some reduction of it but not allof it. now we have also a water electrolising machine for kitchen, which clean a hundred percent! as well as provide alkaline water. (HK) |
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| Sunday 6th March, "Sledge" |
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Whole day today, we have played with snow, making snow man, igroos and sledging. (HK) |
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| Saturday 5th March, "New Phone" |
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Our good old Pioneer TF-X102 was dead, So we have replaced with same Pionees's TF-AD1540s, the digital phone. Funtastic clear sound and easy to use! But I still prefer the size of old one. (HK) |
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| Friday 4th March, "Hinamatsuri party" |
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Hinamatsuri party with Mukai family.(HK) |
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| Thursday 3rd March, "Good by 6th grade kids Party" |
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Emily is finishing primary shool this spring. School organised a little party with children singing and entertainments. (HK) |
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| Wednsday 2nd March, "Spring Has Come yet?" |
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February was gone quickly. I was tidying up studio and driving for the children going to hospitals or something. Now it is march started. I hope that this month will be more constructive! (HK) |
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