JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Here are some updated pics of my boys:

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Jaco is a pit bull mixed-breed and Kato is a pointer mixed-breed (we think). We know for sure about Jaco because we adopted him from Karing Kennels. But, we are not sure about Kato because he adopted Taki outside a local grocery store.

If a society expects a foreigner to follow a local tradition than wouldn’t it make sense for the members of that society to perform the cultural tradition, as well as know the meaning and symbolism of the tradition?

Those of you who were on Gate 2 Street after midnight already know, NHK was out filming the area. They stopped by Bar JET for a few songs and then were on their way. Although the crew called Taki and received permission to film at the club, not may details were provided. So if you watch NHK, expect to see some footage of the area on one of their shows concerning Okinawa and the music scene.

Hubby was at a local super market and ran into a sale on international beers. With him being a beer drinker, especially after working outside in the hot afternoon sun, he thought he’d give them a try.

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The originating countries of the beers are (from left to right): Czechoslovakia, Myanmar, Russia, Austria, and Greece.

NOTE: What hubby didn’t realize until he arrived at home is that the Russian beer is of the non-alcohol variety!

Even though it hasn’t been officially announced, the tropical cyclone season is bearing down on us again. And even though we haven’t been personally affected on island (yet), it looks like it’s going to be another whopper of a season. China is currently dealing with a record breaking typhoon for the month of May. Earlier this month the local deigo trees were full of fiery red blossoms. Local folklore has it that when that particular variety of tree overly-blossoms than a hardy typhoon season is upon us. Keep tuned to find out if it’s true!

I was reviewing my daily links and ran across this story of a charming vintage American General Store. Out of curiosity, I looked-up the site mentioned in the article that was set-up by the son to increase awareness of the sale. What I found on the site was one of the most charming general stores I have seen in a long time. Take a look at this wonderfully well-kept piece of Americana.

I was doing some surfing in the world of compact solutions to housing decors and ran across several interesting space-saving and multi-function home living ideas. From portable circular kitchens to wall-bed mini-kitchen units or table-beds and counter top with burners-armchairs the ingeniuty behind these ideas is rather impressive.

I wondered what unusual gifts are available to add a little something “extra” to the annual celebration of the mothers of the world. So I went surfing and found that most of the sites that claimed to have “unique” ideas were not very impressive. However, this British site was the exception and had several distinctively original suggestions for the unusual.

Here is a comic version of a map of life from one of my favortie characters.