DSC 7179 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. DSC 7110 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. For anyone interested in bulldozers and what not. This is how we take care of snow here. This dozer starts off in the field next to our house, where they blow the snow from the road in February, so that area …
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Mona aint git much schoolin’
So recently Mona is not getting as much schooling as she is supposed to (I guess). Between skiing and hanging out with us, there probably is not much book smart learning going on. DSC 6648 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. DSC 6639 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. Today was the third super clear warm day …
Winter Festival
Spent the morning and most of afternoon at the schools winter festival – the winter version of summer’s “undoukai”. It was held at the ski hill, and the activities were designed for one parent to participate with child, and since Tomoe was along, I took the opportunity to ski, so missed most of the photo …
Mona’s School Show & Other Videos for Mom
DSC 6079 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. Mona comes home from school. This day Tomoe joined me to pick up Mona at the bus stop, so I was able to “document” the whole thing. The older girl who is waving at the departing bus at the end is a neighbor. When Tomoe’s niece lived here …
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Mona Swims and Likes Bambi
DSC 5261 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. The plane ride home as almost as uneventful as all of the other plane rides Mona has been on. Aside from kicking the seat in front of her, and just being generally excited, she is an angel. The worst thing she did was chew through her earphones so …
Anti-climatic
The return to Japan was pretty anti-climatic as I had been hoping for meters of snow to shovel from in front of our house like last year, but small-town life does not always go according to plan when you have nice neighbors who shovel for you in anticipation of your return. It also didn’t help …
Sunny Florida (-20 im Michigan)
Mona’s vocabulary and ability to express her own thoughts is growing in leaps and bounds, so this year we wanted to bring Mona back to Michigan to spend some time with Grandma, Grandpa and the cousins. Problem: Michigan is cold. Colder than where we live in Japan. We get lots of snow in Sakae Mura, …
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Japan’s Snow Monkeys
DSC 3192 from Kevin Cameron on Vimeo. I am in Michigan visiting all my family, and everyone is getting their fill of Mona, so there is no one left to read a blog about her. I do, however, get some inquiries about the monkeys, so for anyone who wants to know what the Jigokudani/Shibu-onsen/Yudanaka Snow …
Snowing Too Fast to Keep Up
The snow is falling too fast to keep up with the photos. These are from a few days ago, and it has been snowing constantly until yesterday. Two mornings ago I was on yukifumi toban duty so had to get up at 5:30 AM to shovel the community shared spaces in the hamlet – this …