daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
The morning sun was shining on Mariko’s house slippers and I thought they looked cute. I always turn them around so they are ready for her when she comes downstairs. :)
Today at lunch I rode down to the neighborhood park to practice casting with a new fishing rod and reel. I got a Kastking baitcaster which is my first baitcaster type reel. It’s challenging to use! But it’s fun to learn, and the mistakes I’ve made practicing here at the grassy field were a great learning experience. The “birds nests” that I created weren’t too terrible!
But it’ll take a while before I am able to cast with decent distance effectively. Lots of fun, though!
The Japanese movie Call Me Chihiro was #1 on my recommendations on Netflix and so I decided to give it a go. What a slow and thoughtful story. I enjoyed it quite a bit! Definitely my type of movie.
Tonight we made takoyaki for dinner. One batch was with octopus, another had sausage, and the third had sausage and cheese. They were all yummy.
Working on the sky portion of a painting, I am trying to recreate some of the purples I saw in Lilo & Stitch.
They’re close, but not quite what I want. So I’ve done some research (on Youtube of course) and ordered the colors of acrylic paint that hopefully will get me there.
