MIA? Nawww

What a whirlwind of activity the past couple of weeks have been!  Teaching is busy as always, and now I've got a lovely stack of mid-terms to grade!  There has been a school sports festival (more later!), baseball play-offs (our team went to the third round) and all the regular everyday stuff.  We've also acquired two fish, and are moving into the rainy season (and it seems the outside miniature wild life is increasing at an exponential rate!) 

All of these are signs that it's June.  Agenda for the week is to stock up on mold-killer, as well as repellents for those outside pesks that won't stay outside (a full aisle is devoted to items to get rid of slugs, flies, ants, mosquitoes, mukade (centipedes), cockroaches and more, so just have to choose which ones!!)  On a more pleasant note, this is also the time to make ume-shu (plum "wine") and enjoy the gorgeously blossoming hydrangeas!  More on those later!!