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ugust we are surviving the summer but very grateful for the rainy days we have they can get a bit strong sometimes and the area where we live is famous for thunder and lightning so we ve even lost power a couple of times but there has been no major damage to our town other places in japan have not fared so well with major flooding in the cities it seems as if japan is always recovering from typhoons or heavy rains or earthquakes whenever i can i enjoy the airconditioning and at the beginning of summer i started some crochet unfortunately it is going slowly and i have a feeling that i m not going to get the summer sweater i was hoping to make for myself done before autumn i don t even remember what i d done to my back that memo by my sketch but it cleared up pretty quickly in my last post i showed a picture of a small japanese character panel that was my trial run before i started on the real thing well i got the four panels done for a church group and though there were a few things i experimented with for the first time i think everyone was happy with the results i traced the characters of the original artist from our church and bonded those to some kimono fabric from a kimono i d torn apart and sewn with before it was interesting to me that though the first and third characters and the second and fourth characters are actually the same the artist had calligraphed them a bit differently so i tried to stay true to the original artist i free hand machine quilted the characters down and got to thinking about border and binding though japanese calligraphy is usually done in pitch black sumi ink the panels seemed a bit drab and so i tore into another kimono that i had red this time and followed youtube to make flange binding that was fairly successful and then i decided to add a family seal of the original artist on the front of the last panel which is the custom i had tetsu draw me out the man s name on a small square of fabric and then i embroidered that and hand appliqued it to a red square and added those to the panel tetsu had also written out the man s first name and i had embroidered that too and see sawed between which seal to use on the front and once i d decided to use the last name it seemed a waste to throw out the seal of the man s first name so i used that on my label on the back of one of the panels this was a very rewarding project that suddenly fell in my lap and i am so happy i got a chance to put my thinking cap on to make these panels for the church group i have a bit of a complicated story about the results from tetsu s colonoscopy which i wrote about in the last post he had his procedure the doctor removed a polyp he went back a week later so get the lab results from the polyp i waited at home and didn t give it too much thought as the doctor had said a week earlier that there was probably nothing to worry about well tetsu sent a message to my phone just as i was sitting down to lunch did you ever notice that when these messages come in only one or two lines of the whole message flashes on your screen in a notification then you open up the message and can read the complete communication did you ever notice that i never had but anyway only the first two lines of the communication are shown at first glance the complicated point to this story is that japanese grammar and english grammar are opposite and the verb comes at the end of a sentence instead of at the beginning in english we d say i like ice cream in japanese we say something like ice cream i like the affirmative or negative of the verb also gets tacked on after the verb instead of in front of the verb ice cream i like not anyway i get this message on my phone from tetsu and the only two lines that come up are the test results are malignant i about dropped my chopsticks and grabbed my chest oh no not at all what we were expecting with heart beating i opened up the whole message and it says the test results are not malignant the test results malignant not whew well tetsu could have just written the test results were benign but he chose to phrase the sentence in the negative i guess i can only be upset with the japanese language the construction behind our house continues with lots of rumbling while the tractors and bull dozers and trucks rumble past our house and on to where the main factory will be built the scenery sure has changed in these past few years the rice fields are still there a few yards beyond the factory entrance though another story the day before yesterday i went for my usual checkup at the university hospital about an hour away from us i get checked for rheumatism there and then get my prescription filled at the pharmacy connected with the hospital it is a huge pharmacy and i think i was told it is the largest in japan there must be 40 or 50 pharmacists working there at a time and there are about 25 windows where consultations and medications are handed out tetsu and i figure that in a single day over 700 patients are served there anyway a major operation goes on daily so i waited for about 15 minutes reading my kindle while waiting to have my prescription filled and then we drove home that evening i got a phone call that i was hesitant to answer because there was no id for the caller however a voice message was left good evening is this tanya watanabe s telephone this is the pharmacy is it possible that you forgot something that looks like a tablet at the pharmacy today please give us a call if we ve contacted the right person sigh yes it was me and it was my kindle that i d left at the pharmacy how did they ever figure out it was me who had left it i didn t have my name or address or phone number in it i called the pharmacy back confirming that it was my kindle i d forgotten and yesterday tetsu and i drove the hour there and an hour back to get it the pharmacy was overjoyed that they d been able to return the kindle to its rightful owner how did you know to call me well opening it up they could see it was english but i m not always recognized as being a foreigner especially with a medical mask on and besides there are always quite a lot of foreigners at the hospital and pharmacy they explained that looking at the kindle s settings page they found my name and then they checked my records and confirmed that i d been there that day and since they had my telephone number they were able to call me it is remarkable to me that something can be lost and in japan usually people will make the effort to find the owner and everyone is so happy about it too like they ve really accomplished something with a little effort cleo is still with us it s been four months since i thought he was on his last legs but he peacefully sleeps most of the day away on a cushion he can t get up and down from a bed anymore and usually in the evening he will snuggle with me for awhile he ll roam around his blocked off room in the middle of the night and very early in the mornings he ll be happy to cuddle some more we re taking good care of him while we have him leiya and family have successfully moved to a new house not far from indianapolis and luka has started kindergarten at the nearby elementary school and i guess that s about it from japan last week was the holiday of obon so families returned to their home towns to visit graves and welcome spirits back now we are all getting ready for school to start again posted by tanya at 2 49 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 28 2026 summer days we have managed to get to the end of july without suffering heat stroke though there is still the month of august to contend with last evening there was a huge earthquake in the southern part of japan which left us unaffected but that is all the news carries today those poor people the earthquake itself is bad enough but even at the best of times in the summer the southern part of japan is extremely hot and air conditioning is essential what will the population do with the electricity blackouts even if their homes are intact what about the homes where water access has been cut off it is not always the earthquake itself which is the greatest danger which we learned many years ago when a tsunami knocked out the nuclear plant we are keeping japan in our prayers this month was full of birthdays for family and friends i celebrated mine on july 1st kohei yamada celebrated on july 12 tetsu had his on july 22 leiya celebrated hers on july 24th and julieta will celebrate hers on july 30 marlene invited us over for a joint birthday party and the sugas brought costco pizza and sushi a combination that works tetsu and i also celebrated our 46th wedding anniversery which made me feel old especially when the waitress whom i asked to take our picture because it was our anniversary said aw you guys are so cute i hope i ll have a relationship like that someday school let out on the july 17th and now we all have a little over a month of summer vacation i m so happy i don t have to stand for an hour in the sun at the crosswalk for a whole month an hour doesn t seem like a long time and the mornings are relatively cooler than the rest of the day but it is nice to sleep in when the animals allow us and to go directly into a cool room mostly we complain about the heat and watch sumo or soccer or high school baseball my first project of the summer was doing sashiko here s the finished piece about the size of a large handkerchief it is sitting under a house plant right now tetsu s birthday rolled around but he d scheduled his first ever colonoscopy for the next day so he ended up eating pre packaged meals and getting ready for sitting at the hospital all day the next day drinking something vile and running to the bathroom he was concerned about what the procedure was going to entail but in the end ha ha everything went well he gets his results back later this week now he is urging me to be initiated too a church friend asked if i could make a quilt sign for a church group and she showed me what the group had been using until recently the name of the group written in beautiful calligraphy by one of the older church member s but the laminated papers were seeing some wear and tear i got to thinking that maybe i could bond fabric after tracing the original calligraphy and i made a trial run to show my friend and the pastor s wife to find out if that was even what they were imagining this sample panel is made from kimono scraps i had in a box i thought the japanese fabric was fitting for the japanese calligraphy i used a small piece of silk rayon as the background but it wasn t very interesting so i added a colorful scrap that i had behind the whitish fabic after placing all the pieces exactly as had been on the original panel i machine quilted all the pieces down the result passed everyone s approval and i will do this all again in four panels with different kimono material i don t have anymore silk rayon so i ll have to figure out some other way to spice this up a bit the black and white is appropriate to the japanese sumi calligraphy though by the way the character is yorokobi which means joy leiya and family went visiting friends in ohio i think they went blackberry picking what a laugh i don t think of taiga as being really small but when he s with tony he looks that way to all of us in the northern hemisphere enjoy the summer and keep cool any way you can posted by tanya at 6 04 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom me about me tanya i have lived in japan for 42 years and currently live with my husband and 5 cats and a temperamental dog my two children are living and working in the states i have been a quilter for over 25 years but i am semi retired and teach english occasionally i love the bible and jesus and try to serve as i can to his glory view my complete profile quilting profile i 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