Posted in adventures, general, painting, projects, tagged adventures, painting, watercolor on July 19, 2008 | No Comments »
This summer I have been having a great time driving around on the cart paths. There is just so much to see and do around town.
With the price of gas I have been using the cart for most of my errands too. Peachtree City has about a 100 miles of cart paths that are [...]
Posted in general, tagged general on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Hello Everyone! I am so sorry to have so many long pauses in-between postings. Sometimes I feel like a circus performer balancing balls in the air. Unfortunately this is the ball I let fall to the ground. But I am back now and have all kinds of news from the summer travels and family events! [...]
Posted in books, knitting, projects, tagged crafts, crochet, japanise books, knitting on May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While in Japan I purchased six books. One knitting, two embroidery, two lace crochet, and one crochet garment book. I thought I would share with you the books and what I found so interesting that I was willing to carry them back to the States. They were the heaviest items in my suit cases. We [...]
Posted in adventures, family, projects, travel, tagged adventure, travel on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
We left Japan the afternoon at 4:30 pm of May 21,2008. We had a little over 11 hour flight and touched down in Detroit Michigan on May 21, 2008 in the afternoon at 2:20 p.m. We then waited for two hours and head off to Marquette Michigan to visit family for Memorial Holiday weekend. It was [...]
Posted in adventures, cooking, travel, tagged japan, shin-yokohama, tempera, travel on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is our last night in Japan. Tomorrow we take the shuttle bus to the airport and fly back to “yesterday”! If you look at our ticket you would think the flight was only one hour while in reality it is a 12 hour flight.
So tonight Paul made special reservations at a little tempera restaurant [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in adventures, travel, tagged view of skyline, Yokohama Station on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I went into the Yokohama Station this morning to get Paul some socks and hit the bank before we go home. These pictures were taken at noon on the way back. It was not at rush hour. During rush hour it is busier. The pictures of the city are from our room 39 floors up [...]
Posted in adventures, general, tagged adventure, japan trip on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I went back to Nagasakaya Kamjoooka Store to get two more knitting books.
I promised a friend that I would go back and get her two books too. She knits and crochets a lot and designs too. Japanese books have great charts and illustrations so you are able with a little effort to [...]
Posted in adventures, general, tagged adventures, japan, temples on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today May 18th Sunday we took the Rapid Train to Kita-Kamakura and visited five temples that lead us all the way to Kamakura. We walked and walked and walked and then climbed stairs through some of the lushest and green area of Japan. Between Kita-Kamakura and Kamakura there are 30 temples or shrines. Each had beautiful [...]
Posted in adventures, family, general, tagged adventure, japan, yokohama on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Paul finally had some time off so we went siteseeing. We decided to go to Kannai Yokohama. We went back by were the Silk Museum was. We first visited the Osanbashi Pier Yokohama and the International Passenger Terminal. It was just as impressive the second time! What a neat pier I think it looks like [...]
