My mom and my aunt's family chatting while grilling fish in front of "Irori" the sunken hearth. My HIVE PUNK gang! LOL! Grilling fish on the hearth cooks it so well that you can eat all the bones

Akebi and Hydrangeas These days, Okan (my mom) often sends me pictures of her garden in Japan.　The hydrangeas we bought on my last trip back to Japan seem to have grown and flowered, and Okan sent me pictures

Okan blog has begun haha! I have decided to start a Okan blog.　My mother, Okan, often takes and sends me pictures of her garden in Osaka, and I decided to remember them as a blog on HIVE because I thought