Paper Cutout

I sometime to this kind of work as my hobby.  Reauires a very delicate work as you know.  I always use my paper cutting knife which my friend gave it to me as a birthday gift.  It's really good one.   I need to concentrate but don't get tired rather feeling refreshing. Most of my paper cutout came from books.  And I don't have most of all anymore because I just gave them to my family and friends.   So I take a picture of them as my memory of my work but even I forget to take the pictures thought.  I made more than those small to big.  I'm going to make a lily of the valley in next time.

Green Curtain

Green Curtain of Bitter Melon 2011 

Yes! That's I wanted.  I've been planted this vegetable because of making Green Curtain at my balcony.  If you have it at your place you feel more cooler than nothing and also you can reduce the consumption of electricity.  As a bonus I've gotten some of bitter melon so far!!  There are some more.  Can you see them?

Apple Mango Tree

Taiwan Apple Mango 2011 August

This little mango tree is getting grow up.  After I ate an Apple Mango from Taiwan in July and put the seed into water and wait.  The bud came out as I expected so I planted it to soil.  I don't have any knowledge about how to grow it up but I check it out by internet and try to get it big.  I may some mangos from this tree in a few years.

Birthday

Me and my father, our birthday is very close in August.  So we celebrate together on his birthday most of the time.  In this year too, my family went to restaurant and had a good time together.
And also on my B day, I spent time with my husband alone.  We went to a restaurant together.  We had a plan to go to mega shopping mall but we just couldn't make it on the same day so just went to new restaurant.  He wants to give me a short trip or 1 day trip as a gift but I don't want to leave house now because of our plants and vegetables.  We'll go to shopping mall in this weekend, maybe and I'm going to get a nice birthday present from my husband.  However I got some emails and calls from friends and sister, and also I got a wonderful plants basket and cake from neighbor, so my people made me feel happy already.

Plants Basket

Peach Cake

Tomatoes

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I planted 4 kind of mini tomatoes in this year.  They are getting red day by day. I really enjoy watching them and sometime I harvest them right on time. They are so sweet!! 

Summer Festival

The season of People who really love dancing has come. The Hottest people and audience became more hot together. This is one of Japanese Summer Festiveal named "AWAODORI". This originally from Tokushima prefecture. AWAORORI is one of three biggest Summer festival and more than 400 years history in Japan.  I went to Higashirinkan Awaodori festival with my mother.  In last year, me and my husband went to see together so I invited my mother for this in this year.  She really enjoyed Awaodori and we had local fast-foods together.  It was fun to see their dancing.  They were more than 4 hours dancing!!

Bitter Melon

The First Our Bitter Melon 2011/8/5

The First Our Bitter Melon 2011/7/25

Do you know this vegetable?  Is this popular in your country?  This is quite popular in my country and it's originally come from Okinawa.  It calls "Goya" in local name and cook with eggs and sausage for stair fly.  This vegetable is really BITTER but it's popular and also very good as "Green Curtain" for making shades especially in this Summer because their leaves are large and make a good shades so it's really good to save electricity.  This is my first time to plant at my balcony farm and I'm studying how to handle it little by little.  I enjoy watching them grow up so fast.  The harvest isn't so far!!

Burdock wrapped Pork

Very good dish for a rice

When I was living in Canada, I took a wine tasting course at the Forks in Winnipeg.  It was just for fun.  I enjoyed the course and tasting wine every classes.  One day I smelled Burdock in a red wine.  I told my teacher "I think this wine is really good for Burdock dishes."  but unfortunately he didn't know what is a burdock and other people neither.  I was wondering why they don't know it because it's very popular vegetable in Japan but most of countries don't eat like us.  Later I researched and I knew it.  Only Japanese and Koreans and a part of Taiwanese eat as a vegetables.  I wrapped boiled burdock with pork and fried them after sprinkled potato starch.  And to make source with soy source, red pepper, ginger and little bit honey.  It's so delicious!!  I think you can use a leek or asparagus instead of burdocks maybe!