If I’m to share an “a day in the life” photo, it would have to be a walk at the old US Communications base. This is truly a daily occurrence. Maru the Shiba wants to walk rain or shine. 📷🐕☺️
This is my wife’s office chair from Itoki, that fits her smaller frame nicely. 📷💺
Maru the Shiba was panicking about the thunder and lightning last night, so I slept on the couch near him for a while. 🐕⛈️
Doing this hike up the old Tokaido road, there were quite a few places where you would be hiking near the modern road. You could really feel the history in your legs. 📷🥾
Before we built our new home, we had to raze the original jikka, my in-laws’ old home. It had been built by Sekisui House about 75 years prior. 📷🏡
The wooden palm rest for my UHK “Ultimate Hacking Keyboard” was getting old and gross, so in the absence of any woodworking skills, I bought in right away when they released the new rubber version. It came today via DHL and feels great! ⌨️📷
A couple years back we moved into our new home, and I was fortunate enough to be able to observe it being built out the window from the old home. A real treasured memory. 📷🏠
Just a hint of fall. 📷🍁
Old Tokaido Hike in Hakone
This is the massive 5 ton “shimenawa” at the Kagura-den ceremony hall, at Izumo Ohyashiro shrine in Shimane Japan. It’s stunningly impressive and is well worth the trip. 🇯🇵⛩️
A little fire shall not be a disruption to the git ops. 📷🔥🫷
If you study Nihongo, you might be interested in this table of typical “goroawase” word play I compiled; things like “4649” standing for “yoroshiku”. 🔰
Maru the Shiba ate very little for the past week and was acting depressed and acting out. Today he’s “back” though; he ate with gusto and was his usual self playing around, showing affection. Sigh of relief. 📷🐕
The Yumoto to Ashinoko hike is a 10km uphill trek over roads, steps, and a lot of cobblestones, ascending 750m. It’s historically interesting because a lot of it is the old Tokaido road, which is like the photo. 📷🥾 (longer post here)
Many stations in Japan have no barrier on the platform, so you need to take care not to tumble over the edge. Especially with cutting-edge trains like this Shinkansen flying through. 📷🇯🇵🚄
Going to hike 10km this AM from Hakone Yumoto to Ashinoko lake, via the old Tokaido. It’s an all uphill hike over some road at the start, then trail, ascending about 800m overall. 🥾
Self improvement 📷🌭
Our daughter worked on Hachijo island, and one of the highlights to visiting was seeing how they weave the beautiful mustard and ochre color “kihachijo” fabric used in kimono and accessories. 🥰📷👘
Sad foot spa kappa. 😅📷
“Freshly picked” tomato-kun from mascot fantasyland. 📷🍅
