Snuggles and kisses for baby sister
Mom and two daughters
Sleeping angel
Elorie asleep in the sun
Sisters feet 
Catching some rays.
This fog was all over the Ono area where we live early in the morning--before 9:00 AM. It was really beautiful. As we drove past the rice fields you could see the mist rising from the ground--really awesome. 
Elorie Carol Ward was born on 3/14 about 1:00 PM in Nebraska, weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz. Peter and Jewel are the happy parents and little Arianna is excited to see her baby sister. Everyone is doing fine.
The rental trkuck is up the street unloading stuff into Henry's room. 
Loading the truck in Hatacho -this one and the next. 
March 5 we will move into the house in Ono-shi. Packing and sorting all the stuff in our current home is a b i g job. 😓
Here are some current photos of the basically finished rooms.
We took out the tatami mat floor in the living room area and inserted what was left of the insulation in the floor. 
Henry put this beautiful dark plywood on the subfloor. It could have been the main floor, but noone will see it :-) On top of this will be the main floor boards. Photo coming. 
The bathroom area with sink installed and carpets on the floor. 
These new lights are in the bedroom downstairs. It's an odd-shapped room with two windows and sliding glass doors opening to the street. 
This is opposite the sliding doors where the bed will go. The window area is at one end of the house where I will have my sewing space. 
The toilet room door under the stairs. To the left is the new sink. More photos forthcoming. 
This is outside the bathtub to the left. The sink will go here on the wall facing. 
Henry was able to use the last of the wall panel board in this area. Most of the piecing will be covered by the sink unit so it will look fine.
The new bathtub with rolled up cover on the floor. Ready for the first customer. 
Last week this wall was put up in the bedroom area. Taping and mudding to do from here. 
Christin and Willow 
The pink princess 
The purple princess. 
Matt came up for Willow's 2nd Birthday Party in January. Below she is opening a big gift which turned out to be a basketball hoop.
January 12 we had snow falling in the morning which accumulated about 1-2 inches and was about -4 C. On our way to Ono I took some photos. 
Out the front door about 8:00 a.m. 
Snow was on top of the water on this river in Ono City, about 20 minutes from where we will live. 
These three are behind our house in Ono where our neighbor has a pit to burn debris. It was still smoldering from Monday's burning so we added stuff to it like wood, some dried bamboo and the like. 
