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Still with the tomatoes…

Eating lots of Mediterranean Pasta!

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The Mighty Hunter

Ready… Set… Pounce! Snooze.

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Japan Day 2: We Relocate To Kyoto and Fall In Love

I think it took us all of an hour to fall in love with Kyoto. But let me back up a bit. This trip first became a possibility in November, when Cory went to Japan for the first time. Once … Continue reading

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Japan: Good-bye Kyoto

We head back to Tokyo this morning. We have done so much in the past three days, it feels more like 6 days worth.Trains and buses and walking and walking and walking. Yesterday was the tour of Kyoto Imperial Palace … Continue reading

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Japan: We Love Trains

The JR (Japan Rail) Passes are proving to be a sound investment. We have been on a train every day so far, though yesterday was just the short (5 min) trkp between Kyoto and Inari to see the shrine of … Continue reading

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We Love Kyoto

To be fair, we haven’t spent much time exploring Tokyo; we’ve mainly used it as a resting point so far. We stayed there the first night and I was exhausted from all the travel. We spent our second day traveling … Continue reading

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Japan – First few days

The journey to get here was long, much time spent sitting, napping, reading, watching in flight TV, eating (they fed us three times on the 13 hour flight from Toronto to Narita). The heat on the plane was cranked, the … Continue reading

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Counting down…

Counting down the days until spring. I was walking from the kitchen today and happened to glance down and see a visitor helping himself to my rhododendron bush. It made me think of garden season. Frank is counting down to warmer … Continue reading

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Winter-ish

Cory returned home from Japan on Friday Feb 3 (actually, he got in at around 12:45 am on Saturday; I was happy he was coming  home but it was hard to stay awake that late after working all day). He … Continue reading

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January

We have been having a really great winter – a lot of mild weather, hardly any snow or storms. We’ve only had our driveway plowed three times. If I gotta have winter, this is how I like it. I was … Continue reading

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