October 27th 2013

It's been a busy week weather wise, we had two typhoons headed for us and they were on a collision
course threatening to cause the dreaded Fujiwara effect! (I guess that could cause the storm to stall over a certain area until one breaks free and they continue moving on their way) Fortunately, at the last moment their trajectory swerved and they headed up Japan off the coast instead of coming inland. Kyushu,Okinawa and some of the islands were hit but Tokyo was spared except for a week of grey, cloudy almost constant drizzle and rain! The night we were supposed to get hit we were awakend by an earthquake, things shook about a bit but settled down again so we went back to sleep. Gary says some day we will die in an earthquake in he middle of the night because we're too groggy to actually get up!
After the storm comes the sun, and today is a gorgeous sunny day!  Which of course means I had to get some clothes washed and on the line! (Though here we don't use clothes line, we have long poles and claw like clips to hold things or funny clothes pins that are tied to the pole and hang free. The multi-clip thingies are very popular here as well, I have one.
                                                             

Shirts are just hung on hangers and hung on the pole. Of course during rainy days we can also hang clothes in the shower room to dry as there is a fan/dryer button in that room that you can push to
help the clothes dry.

On Friday after many months and over a dozen appointments I finally had my final dental visit! I
pretty much have a brand new mouth, with all new fillings,crowns, root canals and a bridge. It was a long and painful process but was worth it!

Gary put in a bid on one of the buildings we looked at but we're still waiting to hear back from our realtor. In an effort to speed up the "find a building process", we have an appointment on Monday,with another realtor who has experience with churches. 

                                      This week Gary ordered me a crockpot off of Amazon.com.
                                                                      

Now I'll have something to cook turkey in for Thanksgiving!  yay!  And it's programmable so I can either use it as a regular slow cooker or as a roaster! Thanksgiving Day here we come!!!!