La Japoneisa: The Morning After

I kept waking up all last night, it might have been the empty stomach, but each time I'd wake up I'd feel bright awake, ready to get up, each time rather disappointed to find it was still dark outside.
It has got really cold over the last couple of days. You dont realize it during the day, the sun is out, or even whe behind the clouds, it still sends warmth through them and of course you're working, running around, burning things. But I am really glad I managed to finish my hat yesterday for in the evenings you can feel the summer's over and rough times are to be awaited soon.
My mission for today was to burn all the weeds that Wayne had weedwhacked and it was so enjoyable. I got to sit around the fire all day and look so it wouldn't spread and I'd get to make the fire bigger when it was getting too small.
When collecting the weeds, on my little trips with the wheelbarrow, I could feel yesterday kicking in like a drug of some sort. A rather bad drug. I'd feel week and dizzy at times and wanted to eat meat and drink milk. Like a hangover really. But that went with the lunchtime goodness and all was good.

Wayne is getting a bit too much. At times. He works hard, sometimes I think way too hard for his own good. Indeed, he is the charge hand and feels great responsibility for this place, as we all do, but even greater than that. However, or this is only what I came to observe, he doesn't seem to communicate all of his ideas and plans to the others (or maybe just me) and so I get annoyed for occassionally I feel like I'm expected to read his mind which, despite the fact I am (should be) a psychologist, I am incapable of doing.
We'll get through though. There is no time to waste it on grudges that in the long run might not even matter that much, eh?

In the evening Bo and I were off to the karate training again. This time it was kid's training and in the hall we found for sweet children two of which we actually already knew from the awa odori. The warm up was rather hardcore, the training was good but a little too short (no damage done yet). Still fun. The sensei said, on my humble request, that he'd also teach us some kata (which are rare in kyokushinkai since it's full contact). He's so cute too.


Over the last week we noticed an increase in the numbers of praying mantices in our vicinity, namely in the house. Chiiori has become some sort of 'love hotel', or so it seems when you look around and in the corners of the rooms, on the beams, by the irori, on the kitchen isle or the water boiler you see these huge ugly things mating, any hour on the hour, making love (or fighting off the competition, desperately attempting to escape or eating the husband). Quite disturbing view, if you ask me, especially whe you're having your lunch. And it is getting rather annoying for you have to watch out where you walk ( so that you dont step on them-they bite), where you sit (so that you dont sit inbetween two loved up praying mantices-like I did the other day, they were staring each other out one from each doorframe-again, rather disturbing) and generally you just have to watch out because they do bite. However, sometimes you are just helpless as to what regards this matter as they can just simply jump or fall off a beam above you and land on your shoulders and there is no way you could have known about it.
Again, as I said, rather disturbing.