Ward Wanderings

Arianna's first day of school

She was so excited to be going to kindergarten. Here she is riding the church school bus.

The sign she's holding gives details about her

Ono happenings #2

Rice was planted in late May/early June

The rice is growing nicely in some very large fields

This looks like a dinosaur to me--it's vines growing up the electrical pole and onto the wires.

One of my gladiolas growing in the garden wall.

I saw this bus pointing to a berry farm. Have not gone there yet.

Harvest from the garden. The yellow/green thing is a zucchini, next is a huge cucumber, last is two tomatoes and a skinny carrot. :-)

I fried the large zucchini and substituted it for eggplant and made parmesean --baked in the oven. Very Tasty. found the recipe at All Recipies.com

For Father's Day we passed out 8,000 flyers and two new families came, one with a young boy. They are both from Tokyo and have been here just a few months and are Christians. Please pray they will come regularly and get involved in the work here. The last Sunday in July a new visitor came for the first time. He is my Japanese teacher and teaches at a local high school during the day. Friday nights there's a Japanese class for anyone who wants to take it (lots of foreigners in the area working at factories). My teacher speaks English and I invited him a few months ago. He said in August he could come when summer vacation starts. :-)

That catches you up on what's happening here in this part of Hyogo-ken

Some happenings around Ono

There are a few things I see almost daily around here and I am sharing the photos with a description.

This is the owner's shed in which Henry can store all his tools and building supplies, plus the owner's tractor to plow the fields.

About twice a year a big truck comes and picks up a huge metal meshed container containing non-burnable trash the owner has thrown out. It is interesting to watch the crane lift this heavy thing and put it on the truck to haul away somewhere.

The following are some sunsets and cloud formations on our drive to church

Some rare fog seen looking up our street; our house roof and driveway are on the left.

Purple iris bloomed in May. Next to it is the start of lettuce and green beans

This is the Kakogawa river about 1/4 mile from our house. It's flooded because of heavy rains back in June.

Across the river you can see construction equipment that is working on a new bridge to cross over the river. On this side is Ono City where we live. Once you cross the river it becomes Kato City, fyi.

This is the latest (July) work--rebar in cement on the opposite side of the river we cross. The road to the river will lead up to this and the new bridge which is scheduled to be completed on halloween. :-)