I was invited to Pal-san’s house. I picked summer vegetables from their garden, and Kishore-san and Kakoli-san cooked them deliciously. I’m also looking forward to harvesting autumn vegetables.
Every morning I go out to the yard and harvest raspberries. This morning, I heard scratchy noises behind me around a maple tree. Avoiding to scare the source of the noise, I quietly looked behind and saw two squirrels jumping up and down, completely ignoring my presence. When I resumed the harvesting, the squirrels continued to ignore me.Right now, these squirrels are busily eating sunflower seeds.
Scott-san took a vacation and came to Japan from Hawaii. Today, he came to Zengyo to see me with his daughter, Kasumi-chan. We talked a lot. Kasumi-chan is an energetic little girl.
宮永さんのカフェ、デイ ドリーム ビリーバー day dream believer で、サムさんと待ち合わせました。ナコスのウェブサイトや音楽や旅行のことなど色々なことを話しました。独特の落ち着いた雰囲気のカフェで良い時間を過ごしました。
I met up with Sam-san at Miyanaga-san’s cafe “day dream believer”, and we talked about various things such as NACOS website, music, travel and future plan. We had a good time.
I went to a Japanese antique shop called Semimaru and I talked with Baba-san in the garden. Cardiospermum halicacabum showed dignified appearance even after withering through hot summer days. I received some.
At karaoke room, my compact summer resort for practicing the violin, and I ate free takoyaki as a gift because I collected points. I practiced “Summer” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
The summer is slowly coming to an end and fortunately for all of us in Hawaii the tourism has returned but although the Japanese tourism has gotten much better the typical Japanese tourist is now spending a lot less than before the Pandemic. One of the problems is the dollar and yen exchange is very bad for the Japanese tourist so that by the time the Japanese tourist gets to Hawaii they have very little money left because of the exchange rate, plane and fuel consumption tax and the high cost of the hotels. So even though there are many Japanese tourists out shopping at the big shopping centers they are basically just window shopping.