Author: Lion-san

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Christmas Day is over, and everything I was helping with has been fun!
On Tuesday, Grandma and Grandpa got the new shades for their bedroom windows. They can pull down from the top or up from the bottom, and I like them a lot! I got to show Grandma how they work. Continue reading “Merry Christmas!”

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I’ve been helping Grandma and Grandpa get ready for Christmas! We had nice sunny weather last week, so we drove out to the Christmas tree farm to get our Christmas tree. After we picked one, the tree farmers ran it through a special machine to wrap string around the branches. When the tree is wrapped up that way, the branches stay nice even when the tree is loaded in a car. Continue reading “Getting Ready for Christmas”

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The day after shichi-go-san, Bill-kun and Karin-chan both had full days of school. So their mommy and daddy took Grandma and Grandpa and me sightseeing. First, we went to Kappabashi street. That’s where all the stores that sell supplies for restaurants are located. One store had a really big supply of cookie cutters. Continue reading “A Very Long Thanksgiving”

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Grandma and Grandpa brought me to Japan! Grandma says this is really my new home, because Bill-kun and Karin-chan live here now. The flight to Tokyo is very long! The sun was just coming up on Thursday when we left Rochester, but it was Friday evening when we finally got to the Tokyo airport. Bill-kun and Karin-chan’s daddy met us there and helped us take the train to our hotel. Continue reading “Shichi-Go-San!”

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There’s been a lot going on here since Sunday! When I wrote last, the pianos were in the dining room and the carpet installers had put the new carpet in the living room, leaving the part that goes in the dining room in a roll where the rooms meet. On Monday, the movers came to pick up the pianos and carry them across that roll. The movers are very strong! Continue reading “Busy New Week”

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The leaves are still falling in Grandma and Grandpa’s yard. The town leaf vacuum has already come twice, and Grandma and Grandpa have another leaf pile ready for when they come again. Until they come, Grandma and Grandpa just keep adding leaves to the pile. Look how big it is now! And look how many more leaves fell since yesterday, when Grandma and Grandpa raked the back yard clean! Continue reading “Raking and Baking”

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Grandma just wrote a book about me and seasons in New York for Bill-kun’s birthday, so I’ve been thinking about fall a lot. Grandma and I went to the Saturday farmer’s market in Fairport to get fall vegetables. Look at how many kinds of squash we bought! Continue reading “Another Autumn”

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After Grandma finished restaining the house, she repainted most of the trim, too. Then she and Grandpa decided that they wanted the front door to be a different color. It’s been the same color for 35 years — a paint color named “Pizza”. Continue reading “The Pizza Colored Door is No More!”

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I had a really good time over Labor Day weekend!

It’s the middle of fresh peach season, and when Grandma and I went to the farm market, we found some special peaches. Don’t they look yummy? We were getting ready for Uncle Steven and Aunt Kara to come to Sodus for the weekend. And guess what? They brought Kara’s mom along too! Continue reading “Labor Day”

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When I got back from my trip to the Canadian Rockies with Papa Dick-san and Grandma Sue-san and the Losee-sans, Grandma and Grandpa took me for a trip much closer to home. We went hiking at Alasa Farms, near Grandma and Grandpa’s cottage at Sodus. The Genesee Land Trust just got a conservation easement there. Grandma says that means the land will stay like it is now, no matter who owns it. Continue reading “Back in New York”