eating lunch, menno village chicken curry soup

picnic lunchtime

playing with daddy



trying to hide from the camera

rose on the way to the rice field



feeding rice bunches into the combine, in the old days it seems they dry the bunches by hanging them up on poles and then used some kind of rake looking thing that you shoved the tops of the rice down over and then yanked on the straw while the rice fell off on the other side, hmm, that was an interesting description, do you get it?? I saw that on tv, so I assume it's accurate:) and then I think they used a foot operated treadle machine to remove the hulls.

very fascinating, machines...



Kenji's little sister Sayoko's family who happened to stop by while out on a drive

cousins Hikari and Nanami

eating snack at the field

Toshi driving the combine