Day 2 - Bite, Kick, Butt, Knock Down - Nara, Japan

Our first day trip was out to Nara, where the semi-tame dear wander and eat from your hands.

Deer cookies.

Day 1 - CHEESE WEINERS in Osaka.

The incredible view from our hotel room window.

Japan Once More

After returning from our first trip to Japan in 2010, we knew a subsequent trip would come.  So after two years of anticipation and longing, we finally embarked on our second vacation to Monster Island.

Images of Godzilla flash at me from a set of slot machines in our terminal. Godzilla: King of Monsters.

A few black & whites (actual film) from...

...the past couple of months.

Front room at the Cobb Mansion - Virginia City, NV

Potato yield

So this is what I harvested out of our potato box yesterday. Not as much as I had hoped for. It's weird because the tubers all seemed to grow in clumps around the top of the soil.  I think next year I will need to dig out the soil a good deal into some sort of bin so I can bury my seed potatoes deeper and cover them up more.  This will hopefully increase the yield.  We'll see, still learning...

The Rock...

...and a few other photos from San Fran.

Linda's niece and nephew came up from San Diego for a weekend trip to San Francisco. We met up with them and took a ferry to Alcatraz.  Normally, we don't the tourist traps, but they wanted to see it so we went, which was cool, because sometimes you need to change things up a bit from your usual routines. Alcatraz is actually pretty neat to see.

The move called "The Rock" is one of the worst movies ever made, but the place is cool.

Luigi Makes a Year!

I can't believe it's been a whole year since we adopted little Luigi.

We still don't really know what he is, but we think it must be either
a Jack-Shit (Jack Russel Shih-Tzu mix) or a Jack-Affe (Jack Russel
Affenpincher mix).

He has turned out to be a fine young man, and the frequency of his
Super-Tornadoes™ have been greatly reduced. He has also gotten
more trusting with us, and much, much more affectionate.