JaenneP, angelface, thank you very much for your comments.

JeanneP, Fukuyama is the district which is warm in Japan, but it is difficult to get onion throughout the year.

angelface, My husband would save some small potatoes for seeds, quarter them and place a few inches down and about a foot apart.
He also grew scallions rather than bulb onions.

Jack, It is a heartwarming wonderful photo! Leonberger is reliable and has a cute Mimi.

Sachiko thank you.  You can see I have a lot going on in my back yard, no garden, but lots of action.

Jack, I cannot imagine it so that your buckyard cannot compare with Japan because it will be incomparably wide. Please tell me.

I arranged my wardrobe today, and I found the sweater which I knit.
When minidresses were popular, this was the Mini One peace that I knit. Minis were not popular, and I untied the hem and it became a sweater.

You are a clever lady.  I don't know how you did that but you did agreat job.  Very attractive and looks great on you.

Sachiko I agree with Hal, another talent.    My yard is not so big, just about 60 by 40 feet, but now no trees.   It takes little care.  I am one block from a large playground, and  just several miles to Oglebay Park where we do an almost daily walk.

Sachiko, you must have felt bad having to rip out so much of your knitting on that minidress after working so hard to complete it.  I never tried to make a dress or skirt, but I did knit many sweaters from kits.  I'd take a bus to visit relatives in Indianapolis, Indiana (US) and I'd start a sweater on the bus.  By the time I got home, the sweater was nearly done.

Mary Ann

Sachiko,
Beautiful sweater...  aka top of a
mini dress !!   

Great JOB! 
Sandy

SACHIKO....
...wow that top sure lasted the length of time,...( not many clothes last so long in todays fashion market, although they do have a habit of coming back into fashion for a short period of time )...if I remember that far back...   the mini skirts and dresses came in fashion in the 60s.....

Sachiko.  Beautiful sweater. Nice Pattern. Does look better not as a mini Dress. My one Aunt in UK was a beautiful knitter. Always had 2 items ready for me for when I went back. She past away a few years now. (7). I still have many of her things she made me and take good care of them. One is just about like yours. Same colour. Pattern but 3//4 sleeves. Have 5 different colour Vest that I wear a lot. Thing she knitted looked so professional. Never remember her not knitting. It is still very popular in UK.  I can crochet but not knit that well. 

Sachiko, very good looking and lovely color!

Good morning!
Fukuyama is cold, but it is fine well.

halkel, Jack, Mary Ann, Sandy, Vanilla-Jackie, JeanneP, angelface,
Thank you very very much for your comments!
I am moved with having had the heartwarming impression of everybody.

I liked making a thing since I was young. And I made my clothes after growing up and knit it. But I rarely take a photo at that time, and I am sorry that it does not remain in the album.

Really pretty sweater, Sachiko, and can imagine how pretty it was as a dress.  Looks good on you.  Only thing I ever knitted was a scarf & believe I had to have someone else finish it off for me.  Not one of my accomplishments!   

Winter is about to hit us hard tomorrow.  Not only possibility of a little snow but strong wind to make it feel like a lot colder than the single digits actually predicted.  Time to be cold but wish for a little more snow to blanket the trees we just transplanted. 

Have to admit, the last time and probably only time I ever knitted any garments was when I was expecting, and that was 1969...not knowing what sex my then baby was going to be...I knitted 4 sets of matching matinee cardigans, bootees, mittens and bonnets...one each pink, blue, lemon and white.....Not sure my right hand with its now, " Peripheral Neuropathy " will let me knit, even though I would love to take it up, if only for something to do to pass the time away....

It was my late mother who taught me to knit, neither of us could crochet....I would often watch my mother knitting away at speed, while not even looking at her knitting, she could knit very fast and still watch the tv...I could never knit as fast as my mother...nor very rarely, did she ever drop any stitches..

Shirley, thank you very much for your comment.
I am sorry to be busy today, and not to be able to access here. I was looking for the photo of this sweater, but was not found today after all either.
I loved sewing and knitting, and I made their clothes at the age of the child of my son and my daughter from youth.
But I make my web page in substitution for my clothes hard now.

Vanilla-Jackie, thank you very much about knitting of your and your mother.
My mother was good at knitting and dressmaking, too, and I learned them from my mother, too.

Sachiko I mentioned my small back yard, but within several miles is my large back yard Oglebay.   It was just 40 degrees today but sunny and here is Mimi observing her Oglebay Yard.

                          
                                 

Jack, that is a very good shot of Mimi! She poses well! I was curious as to the size of Oglebay's grounds?

Patricia thanks, she is a beauty.   Oglebay has over 1700 acres.   Here is a link to a video they did, a bit long but you may fine interesting. I am so fortunate to have it so close (and free to visit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUyAp73nSSQ

A really good shot of Mimi.  She is a good companion.  You are very fortunate you have Oglebay.  So many parks don't allow dogs.

Jack. Great shot of her. Wonder what she was thinking. (Most probably.. What a great place they brought me to live...Beats birthing Babies... She is such a beauty.
Bet she had some nice puppies.

Thanks, Jack. We have Creamer's Field, a 2,200 wildlife sanctuary but only a few acres are actually open to the public and dogs on leash have even less acreage.

Was able to locate a map of the walking trails at the park.   They wind all around the park.  I start at the Hilltop at the top of the photo.  It is 1/2 mile from the hilltop to the lodge.  I try to avoid the hills, but if you walk downhill then ---- .

Hope I do not bore you, I have a simple life, fortunate to have decent health, possibly due in part to my daily walks with good companions.   I have been walking the park for over 20  years and never bored.  Dogs are to be kept on leash, but the park is very popular with folks walking their pets.

The walking trails are in yellow.

I do love your Mimi, Jack.... do you realize how lucky you were to find her?  Yes, I know you do, and she is so happy with her new life, you can see it.  What a joy to have that big place to walk & don't have to do the maintenance!  Do they have the lights up yet?  I have to get my decorations out tomorrow, without fail.  I did get the great grands each a pretty ornament & just ordered the Sharpie oil pens to put names on & hope their parents save them for when the kids grow up so they will know they actually had a Great-Grammy.  I knew my father's mother and my mother's father but they hardly knew me because I was a "tail end kid" & they had so many others first.  My youngest grand is in college. My shopping is all done. 

Shirley yes their festival of lights is running now, may get a few photos.  Was thinking of a second trip this evening but a neighbor stopped by and we went for a few beers.  I do not drink the lite beers, mine are high in alcohol so after a few I am ready for a nap.

JACK WV.....
.....I will watch your video clip a tad later on, as It is only 5.20am here in UK, and I am already awake, up and about and drinking my first cup of tea of the day... if I did watch it now, I would have to turn the sound off...but, I do have to say....what a different life to her old life that your Mimi is now living, with the vast area of Oglebay just a stones throw from your home.....As the well known saying goes...." the world is now her oyster..."

Both yourself and Mimi, are very lucky to have this vast and open space just a short car drive away...

I would have thought though that there might have been some designated areas in the " park " that dogs would have been allowed off lead, like some places over here but I guess, at the end of the day....rules are rules.......

Jack, I could not find the Oglebay Mansion in the map, or is that the Wilson House?

Mary Ann

Mary Ann the Mansion is just below the Hilltop caption, it says Mansion Museum and was the Oglebays summer home that the left to the city.

Jackie I believe she is still a bit overwhelmed by the open space.   There is no off leash area but the park was used to me walking Jessie off leash since she ignored the deer and stayed close.  I keep Mimi on leash, she would chase deer and squirrels.   The city will have a new off leash park in the spring and I will check it out but have visited one in Pittsburgh and the people do not control their dogs, or clean up.  Should mention that the dog owners do a good job picking up at Oglebay and the park has several locations that provide clean bags.

Jack, both the video which I now realize I've seen before and especially the grafic were very helful, thank you.