5.7.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

July 5

owling9 indeed.

Luncheon

Monday

July 5th, 2010

Steak sandwich

Perfect !

Chikako made a delicious banana cake.

Yum Yum

All washed down with a bottle of Pink Y

Yellowglen Champers.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Dinner - June 20th, 2010

Dinner at Sukagawa

South Koriyama

Sunday evening

20th June, 2010.

Am I looking up?

Or am I looking down ?

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Chikako & Justy Dog frolicking on the floor before dinner.

... and dinner is served, albeit at 6 pm.

Usually we dine about 10 pm, so we couldn`t do justice to this veritable feast.

Birthday Dinner - 2010

Sunday night, July 4th, 2010

Chikako prepared a wonderful, day-early,

Happy Birthday

dinner for me.

Gaijin food as requested by moi.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Datekomaki - Sendai

Datekomaki is a type of Daifuku ( Rough Translation: Big Lucky )

It is famous in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture

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Very delicious .... Japanese sweets are so good.

July 7th, 2010 ( for Koriyama City )

It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.

With acknowledgment to Wiki:

Orihime (織姫, Weaving Princess?), daughter of the Tentei (天帝, Sky King, or the universe itself?), wove beautiful clothes by the bank of the Amanogawa (天の川, Milky Way, lit. "heavenly river"?). Her father loved the cloth that she wove and so she worked very hard every day to weave it. However, Orihime was sad that because of her hard work she could never meet and fall in love with anyone. Concerned about his daughter, Tentei arranged for her to meet Hikoboshi (彦星, Cow Herder Star?) (also referred to as Kengyuu (牽牛?)) who lived and worked on the other side of the Amanogawa. When the two met, they fell instantly in love with each other and married shortly thereafter. However, once married, Orihime no longer would weave cloth for Tentei and Hikoboshi allowed his cows to stray all over Heaven. In anger, Tentei separated the two lovers across the Amanogawa and forbade them to meet. Orihime became despondent at the loss of her husband and asked her father to let them meet again. Tentei was moved by his daughter’s tears and allowed the two to meet on the 7th day of the 7th month if Orihime worked hard and finished her weaving. The first time they tried to meet, however, they found that they could not cross the river because there was no bridge. Orihime cried so much that a flock of magpies came and promised to make a bridge with their wings so that she could cross the river. It is said that if it rains on Tanabata, the magpies cannot come and the two lovers must wait until another year to meet.

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