JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Sunday January 8, 2006 [S(1/365) W(2/365)]

January 2006 Total:
S-sunny (1/365) C-cloudy (5/365) PC-partly cloudy (2/365)
D-drizzle (3/365)
W-windy (2/365) LW-light winds (6/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (36/365) C-cloudy (71/365) PC-partly cloudy (113/365)
D-drizzle (19/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (71/365) LW-light winds (114/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

I don’t know how the weather has been this week for the rest of you, but I’m ready for what appears to be a semi-nice day. Earlier this week, just on Thursday as a matter of fact, we didn’t even need a jacket. Then came Friday, it felt like someone left the fridge door open all over the island. As if that wasn’t getting chilly enough for this time of year, on Saturday we may as well all have been in a food locker -brrrrr. So far this morning the sun has been breaking its way through all the clouds allowing for little rays of hope of a brief reprieve from the sudden and unexpected early chill. It’s not even the coldest time of the year yet over here; that doesn’t come until February and March!!!

Saturday January 7, 2006 [C(5/365) D(3/365) LW(6/365)]

January 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (5/365) PC-partly cloudy (2/365)
D-drizzle (3/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (6/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (71/365) PC-partly cloudy (113/365)
D-drizzle (19/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (70/365) LW-light winds (114/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

This week I took another step into the wide world of modern technology, webcam phone calls. Thanks to the very uncomplicated new Yahoo Messenger program, I am now able to view my family while I talk to them. It’s great!!! Years ago I never would have imagined such a simple way to stay in touch with loved ones over all the miles would happen so soon. (Even though camera phones were predicted to be a part of daily life in the 21st century way back in the caveman days – the late 1960s.) I can remember when making an international call was an all day event. I used to have to call the international operator, wait for ten to twelve hours for a response – when they were attempting to make the connection, and then pray that someone was at home at the other end. If you have never given it a try, don’t wade just jump in because there’s nothing like it!

Friday January 6, 2006 [C(4/365) D(2/365) LW(5/365)]

January 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (4/365) PC-partly cloudy (2/365)
D-drizzle (2/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (5/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (70/365) PC-partly cloudy (113/365)
D-drizzle (18/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (70/365) LW-light winds (113/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

Thursday January 5, 2006 [C(3/365) D(1/365) LW(4/365)]

January 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (3/365) PC-partly cloudy (2/365)
D-drizzle (1/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (4/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (69/365) PC-partly cloudy (113/365)
D-drizzle (17/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (70/365) LW-light winds (112/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

Wednesday January 4, 2006 [PC(2/365) LW(3/365)]

January 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (2/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (3/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (68/365) PC-partly cloudy (113/365)
D-drizzle (16/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (70/365) LW-light winds (111/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – hechima (a squash-like vegetable dried and used as a luffa on mainland Japan, but used for cooking on Okinawa)

Japanese – hechima?(???)??

Hogen – naabeeraa?(??????)

Tuesday January 3, 2006 [C(2/365) LW(2/365)]

January 2006 Total:
C-cloudy (2/365) PC-partly cloudy (1/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (2/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S- sunny (35/365) C-cloudy (68/365) PC-partly cloudy (112/365)
D-drizzle (16/365) R-rainy (8/365) SR-scattered rain showers (21/365)
W-windy (70/365) LW-light winds (110/365) VW-very windy (6/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (82/365)