August 22, 2012

• Well that stinks...

  This morning I was trying to finish some things in the house quickly when I had a run in with a sliding door.  I misjudged where the door was as it was neither slid all the way shut or all the way open.  The curtain over the door disguised the true position of the door and ring finger got jammed.  Yes, ouch.

  We did make it out the door time to sprint to the train.  Destination...Kamo park.  We couldn't stay long, but I at least was able to show Maya the squirrel (chipmunk) park.  It was fun, but the lesson learned today was to not go when schools are on break because the chipmunks were not very hungry from all the attention.

  Our day revolved around the arrival of the kumitori truck.  I got a call this morning...bright and early...like 7:30 early saying he would come by "in the afternoon" to clean out our tank.  A little more to go on would have been nice, but I wasn't going to get more info than that.  We made it home before noon, had lunch, and awaited the truck.

  The boys were very fascinated by the purpose of the truck.  We have a drop toilet.  Yes, I know that seems sort of backwards.  The system works pretty well, so that the smell doesn't infiltrate the house and I guess the plumbing just never got changed, so this is just a quirk of this house.  The boys were quite fascinated by the removal of the waste and were quite tickled that the man made his living sucking out such things.  Poor guy.  Seeing how he's going to come here on a fairly regular basis, I hope my kids didn't bug him too much.

  Tonight we got some stormy weather.  Lots of lightening flashing, followed by thunder, and then a brief downpour.  The little ones didn't appreciate it too much, but then bedtime is not a great time for such a show.  That round of storm passed, but I noticed the TV put up a warning to be careful of tornadoes.  It has been a strange weather year this year in Japan.  We do get tornadoes, but not very often at all.  However, this year there has been as many or warning for as many for the whole of the other 7 years I have lived here.

  I suppose it bears mentioning that I am flying solo this week as Corey is away at Jonathan Training.  On that note, it is time to hit the shower and then the hay.

   

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