JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

A map on a flyer of the participants in a currently ongoing music-based club event that will be using coupons.

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In an update of an earlier post, the flyer above has been distributed indicating the participants in a reorganized event. Although I still find this particular means of distributing public funds in an equitable manner as less than optimum, the questions posed on the post have been replied to in an acceptable manner in a meeting this week. Therefore, Live Music Bar JET will be one of the clubs accepting the designated coupons for the event on Saturday 18 Nov ’06.

A neighborhood bougainvillea gone wild.

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More flowers blooming in a neighborhood flowerbox.

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Some more blooms of a neighborhood flower box.

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Well, it’s November and that means time for a month full of street festivals. According to sources, Gate 2 Street will be closed to traffic most of this weekend for the Kokusai Carnival. This will be a two day event that is supposed to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, and around noon on Sunday, Nov. 5, and ending around 10 p.m. each night. I’ve also been told that B.C. Street (Chou Park Avenue) will be joining in on the activities this year (once again according to sources). Check with your island activities provider for further information.

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Thursday November 2, 2006 [PC(1/365) LW(1/365) H(2/365)]

Julian Calendar Autumn (????????????) Okinawan Autumn (????) Ryukyu Island Autumn (????)

November 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (1/365) PC-party cloudy (1/365)
SR-scattered rain showers (1/365)
LW-light winds (1/365)
H-humid (2/365)

This Year’s (June 3, 2006 – June 2, 2007) Total:
S-sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (55/365) PC-partly cloudy (61/365)
D-drizzle (4/365) R-rainy(6/365) SR-scattered rain showers (13/365)
W-windy (43/365) LW-light winds (87/365) VW-very windy (3/365)
H-humid (85/365) SH-slightly humid (49/365)

For the longest time I thought having a green thumb just wasn’t one of the items that were being passed around when it came to my percentages …that’s before we found these little guys had decided our garden was extremely tasty.

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Wednesday November 1, 2006 [C(1/365) SR(1/365) H(1/365)]

Julian Calendar Autumn (????????????) Okinawan Autumn (????) Ryukyu Island Autumn (????)

November 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (1/365)
SR-scattered rain showers (1/365)
H-humid (1/365)

This Year’s (June 3, 2006 – June 2, 2007) Total:
S-sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (55/365) PC-partly cloudy (60/365)
D-drizzle (4/365) R-rainy(6/365) SR-scattered rain showers (13/365)
W-windy (43/365) LW-light winds (86/365) VW-very windy (3/365)
H-humid (84/365) SH-slightly humid (49/365)

Halloween is over and as the holiday season approaches, mid-autumn sets in and the island sky begins to take on that all too familiar almost-bland glare with light brush-stroke clouds of pale colors.

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