Ward Wanderings

March 15 Church

There were a total of 12 in the morning service today, our highest attendance for regular services. The Yoshimoto, Taitano and Kuramae, and Iwanaga families came (2 each)

There were two 5-year-old kids today so I had a class to teach. The lesson was on the Lost Sheep. The kids help me with the flannel graph alot :-)

Henry doing the announcements

Henry at the pulpit and Mr. Fukumoto doing the AV. Mr. Sakamoto's back is in front of me.

Looking out the kitchen window toward our neighbor's rice field, this grey heron was wandering around.

It makes an appearance on occassion. In the summer it stalks the frogs and tadpoles in the rice fields filled with water.

It was a beautiful day in Kato City. I got down into the ditch around the Kato Church. It's a good 4 feet deep, and I cut out all the weeds and at least three small trees, making five large bags of trash to take away. What's left are piles of dirt along the wall. I would have removed that, but there was no place to put it, so it stayed. While I did that, Henry and Fukumoto pressure cleaned the back wall of the building facing the main road. The flowers below were given to us by the owner's wife and she comes over and takes care and waters them for us.

Some Recent Vehicle Sightings

The name of this car is Absolute

Three pink triplets someplace in Japan

Saw this truck at a convenience store--Hyogo-ken Samurai

This car is parked at an apt. building. It is a Toyota, but looks like a low=rider Chevy; well kept

A purple car next to the home of church members

we deliver!

The back of this bus is a city skyline

Thursday tree stump removal

Steve hired a man to remove two large and one small stump in the front yard. The machine is remote controlled and I watched it come off the trailer and move to the first stump. Then it started cutting it up. There's a large circular blade in front and it moved back and forth over the stump, spreading little chunks and making a bunch of mulch.

The guy said he makes these machines and after his day job around 3:30 he goes out and does the job he really likes. It's nice to meet someone who loves what he does. It took all of 20 minutes to do the three stumps.

Yard Cleanup

Steve's backyard loaded with fallen oak leaves

Steve using a leaf blower to gather the leaves in the front yard

A city crew came with a large vacuum and sucked up the leaves at the street

There were three stumps in the front yard. Steve had a man come with his spiffy machine and it sawed/chewed the stump into mulch. It has a huge circular blade that moves back and forth using a remote control

The man told us he designs these machines and loves removing stumps after his day job. It took all of 20 minutes to remove the three stumps.

Bug and a sunset

beetle and a plum

a recent sunset driving from Kato to Kobe

Mugs by Boynton

My collection of mugs with art by Sandra Boynton that I bought between 1979-1983

I gave this to Henry one Christmas before we got married. It's seahorses with a land horse "swimming" and it says "For Someone Special"

This caption says Never Say Diet and has a hippo in the kitchen cooking

This is my favorite..a cat that says "I'm not plump. I'm fluffy"

This has several hippos dressed in tutus captioned "Dance of the Sugarplum fairies"

A Christmas mug with music and each animal saying "Wee fish ewe a mare e grets moose panda hippo gnu deer

A new version of the above seahorses but it says "You're one of a kind"

Latest Quilts 2020

This quilt is mostly selvedges saved for several years. They are less than 1/2 inch usually and I topstitched appliqued the on top of a plain piece of cloth. The front is a panel I bought of the USA and each state has a different animal picture.