JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Just completed another brief video of more of the local bird songs, mainly meijiro, taken yesterday morning.

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These local neighborhood blooms remind me of golden horns trumpeting to the morning sun.

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Another of the flowers found in the local neighborhood. This particular bloom is from a bush that was present when we bought our house sixteen years ago.

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This week I’ve been busy learning how to edit and add effects to videos, as well as audio for the final product. This is a clip from one of my first attempts at video editing. View this and other island road trip videos here.

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Hubby thought he would give freezing some seeds of produce we purchased at the local supermarket a try. Later, he defrosted and planted the seeds. These are the first fruits of labor from the new section to his veggie box garden, miniture bell peppers. And this is how the veggies were used.

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One of our sweet-scented, flowering plants.

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Another pic courtesy of Robert Franklin of a North American bee in flight.

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This pic of a North American butterfly munching on an autumn afternoon is courtesy of Robert Franklin.

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A bird enjoying the mid-afternoon breeze by ridin’ the wave. Also, two of the annual hawks came by very briefly later in the afternoon. Hopefully, I will be able to get some better shots this year.

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Now a thought on the latest wave to roll my way (something I was told about last night), coupons:

1) it doesn’t seem to be an equitable means of distributing funds…depending on who gets the coupons, the finances will go to “friends” thereby producing the possiblity of keeping funds in a loop

2) if a guarantee to protect against counterfeit coupons is arranged, this leaves several possible misuses

a) a disreputable person could distribute counterfeits within a loop thereby providing additional funds to “friends” and/or self

b) a disreputable person could flood any given business with counterfeits thereby placing said business under suspicion of fraud

c) or a disreputable person could do both, thereby producing a total manipulation of the market

3) if no guarantee against counterfits is arranged, it leaves a business wide open to loss of funds through counterfeits

Even though intentions may be good, there are too many opportunities for misuse.

I say NO to coupons…..