Today at work we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Kyoto (Japan) and Boston. The mayor of Kyoto was there, as well as other notable types. Kyoto gave us some wonderful gifts, including a number of child-sized kimono.
The kids all looked really cute, but of course they hadn’t changed their shoes. I I just loved the juxtaposition of the traditional Japanese outfit with the oh-so American footwear.
I have had so much blood drawn in the last few years, it’s not even funny. But here we go again. 
We washed a bunch of our little rugs today, including this one that goes in the downstairs bath. The power washer is actually pretty fun to use, and does a scary good job of loosing a bunch of dirt and crap you didn’t even know was there.
I left work today and turned onto Sleeper St to see, much to my surprise, a whole line of horses and buggies lined up against the back of the museum. I actually pulled over and got out of the car to photograph them, they were such a pretty, albeit unexpected, sight.
We specially ordered a bag of carrots with our Boston Organics order today. I never knew carrots came in red and yellow too(and yes, they are carrots, not parsnips)! They added lovely color to our salads tonight.
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BONUS PICTURE:
it’s the word
So it was a warm and sunny but somewhat muggy afternoon and then all of a sudden….BOOM! It was like someone unzipped the sky and all this rain just dumped out all at once.
An hour later, it was dry and sunny again.
Another hot day today, but not as humid. A lot of people were outside at lunchtime. Most of them, like this woman, tried to find a shady spot to sit in. I think she found the best one.
In an effort to delude ourselves that we are still on our island vacation, Doug and I had some very tasty clams for dinner tonight.
Doug, Greg and Jen look out at the water while we wait for the ferry to come to take us back to the mainland. …sigh…
We went mini-golfing today. After a strong start, I came in fourth, out of five. Oh well. It was fun anyway.