JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

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I normally try to find the balance in things…but one can only stand soooo many days without the brilliant rays of the sun before it begins to take some kind of affect. So being who I am, here’s the “bright side”…at least it appears that our dog has outgrown his sun deficiency disorder and no longer chews everything in sight when the sun refuses to shine for more than one day. And we have brilliant flowers to bring a little “sunshine” into our lives.

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Sometimes it feels that the weather just doesn’t want to cooperate with those summertime outings.

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But don’t let that interrupt the fun. Whether it be a donut, egg, strawberry fest (2), blueberry fest (2), pink tomato fest, cheese, applesauce cake, ice cream, banana split fest, iced tea, tomato fest (2), lobster, sugar fest, strawberry, oyster fest, pepper, ice cream soda, peaches and cream, chocolate eclair, spuds, strawberry parfait, chocolate pudding, or just being a kitchen klutz – people have found reasons to celebrate the month of June over the years. Here is a more complete list of ideas to help get you started.

Today is Jaco’s birthday. This is a pic of his “cake” – a blueberry cream cheese pie from a local bakery in Awase.

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To view a slide show of the celebration, click below.

Well it looks like no holiday BBQ here today, we’ll have to take a rain check. However, the flowers seem to be enjoying the rain.

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We were fortunate to have a couple of really nice days to barbecue this past week. But we weren’t the only ones taking advantage of the sunny back yard BBQ days.

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One of the Jaco and Kato tennis ball tug of war photos.

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Click on link below to view a slideshow of the tug of war pics.

Well here it is that time of year again, the unofficial start of summer weekend. Although most people count on spending the weekend enjoying the great outdoors, it doesn’t seem that it will that simple for those of us on island. All week long the weather has been bouncing back and forth between great BBQ days and literal massive downpours. But where ever you may be, I hope all of you have a very good weekend.

This is one of the numerous colors found in the bountiful impatiens found on island.

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