Leaving Home

Although we will only be gone about six weeks, this trip nonetheless required a little preparation.

Henry became so enthralled with containers on the cargo ship adventure that he had to have one of his own for storage of farm equipment while we were gone.  It arrived about a week before we left.

Equipment duly stored, provision had to be made for our feathered and furred friends.  Several hundred pounds of deer corn and bird seed were mixed and loaded into the feeders or stored for later distribution (thanks to Henry’s son Clay).

And farewells were said to our less demanding animal companions:

The journey across the Pacific that took us five weeks on a ship last fall took only 14 hours by air….

And then we were in Tokyo.  Amazing!