I keep this blog for friends, family and students in Japan& the U.S.

Since Spring '07, Zen and Taka moved to California full time for Zen's basketball career. I'm in California most of the time right now too. Almost every day I go to help my Grandmom. She was born in 1919. Taka and I also get to work for Uncle Lynn's landscaping company. Santa Cruz, California. As beautiful as ever. However I still feel homesick for Japan~~

Friday, December 8, 2017

Thursday, August 17, 2017

At a much later date: 8/17/17

This was my first blog and since 2012 I had to start a second blog because I was informed I had too much info in this first blog.

Well, I printed out the first blog into books. I added in particular quotes to "end" the first blog, which you can see following this message.

Here's the link to my blog from 2012 till now.
For you and me! to enjoy!!

http://thiataka.blogspot.com/

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Look for my new blog... but one last entry here "for the road" WHEN WE WERE IN MONTANA

Okay, I have reached my limit~ This blog update is the last "memory" left to add to it. 
I am deciding to leave this~ to let this blog "Life in Thia's Worlds" be as is
(I I was told I couldn't add anything more here)

I will begin a new blog titled 
"Life in Thia's World part II"

http://thiataka.blogspot.com/

I will start Part 2 with more lovely photos 
from this Montana trip to Mom and Frank's this summer.



Mom and Frank have two of their own horses at home, but the horses haven't been ridden for a while. 

The first day in Montana a woman named Katie was over to shoe the horses. 
It was so cool to watch her at work. 

She also is a chiropractor~ especially helping people learn how to work their bodies, 
and not hurt their backs while doing this sort of work.

I loved watching her with her tools, and how she managed, and cared for the horses along with her dogs around. She's a teacher of this trade, and she told me she's written books about this work as well.



Wild life in Montana~ this little snake ended up sliding down that hole there! It was full of something it ate- you can see in the middle of it's body! S/he hung out there for quite a while- digesting~ in the sun.



We went hiking one day~ and driving to this place called Crazy Lady. Mom told me it was where a woman's family were all killed by Native Americans, leaving her behind.  
When she got home she went crazy on the Native Americans. They took her in and she ended up staying with them. At this location, here~

We hiked with Rosco too... and where the falls were so beautiful. We kept wanting to follow it further down, further along around the next turns. (See Zen's little big body at the bottom of that fall?)


Mom:
...and we got our feet into the cold, COLD water!

Zen and sis! Sheon-chan!
Mom and kids! pooped!

Zen's kind of tired of my photographing them


One day we skyped with Ischin in Japan~ the next day with Naomi too!!

That was a week long with Mom and Frank, and Rosco. 
One of the best trips we ever had (except for not being able to have Ischin and Naomi there too).
Kind of life changing. 
This week was a time I had hoped would start a positive new phase in our lives.
And now, two weeks later, I
 can say that our lives really are on a higher and more positive new course.