Pictures for today

I thought I would post a few miscellaneous photos for today. Here you can see the boys with their new haircuts. For Ridge, I threw in a "before" picture. They are holding cards that Grandma sent. Ridge likes his so much he won't let me hang it up. Instead, he insists on keeping it where he can reach it to play with. The drawing is one Ridge did today for Holt. At the top you can see where he "wrote" Holt's name, and below is a picture of a grill, a cup of coffee, and a kayak with a flag. The poster, which nobody (including us) can read, is the explanation of how to separate your garbage. Y'all thought I was exaggerating in my earlier post, didn't ya? Ha ha! Here's proof. We have another version of this poster, one that has been photocopied, with explanations written on it. Although, really, to say that it has an "explanation" is really a bit of an overstatement.

After a week of reading about Katrina, Aaron and I have switched to reading about the Typhoon on our side of the world. No need to worry, though. If you look at a picture of Japan, Hokkaido is the northernmost island. Nishiokoppe is very near the top and a little to the right. We are 30 miles from the coast. There is no real danger for us, only some very rainy weather on the way. Mr. Kamaya, always looking out for us, handed me a note today. Whenever it is very important for him that I understand what he is trying to communicate, he writes it down. I think it is so he can properly translate it. Here is what his note said:
(at first I thought I would simply tell you what it said, but why - when I have a camera so readily available??)