Hydroponic Strawberries!!

 Monday, March 24, 2025

Sachiko tells us that we won't have breakfast (good news in my book!) because we're going to eat strawberries at 10:30. We fill the car and head off to the Very Berry farm and meet up with Tae's brother Hiroshi and his wife and young son.  Everyone gets a little plastic bag for your berry stems and we enter through a sliding door into a hydroponic farm with lots of different varieties of berries.  It's quite a treat to pick berries at waist height instead of crawling around on the ground.  And they're all clean and ready to eat.  We were given some little plastic cups for sweetened condensed milk and that's a delight, too, but the berries are so very sweet and flavorful and they don't need any embellishment!







Home again, home again!  And a nap and some meds are in order for me - Ibuprofen and some wonder capsules that Sachiko produces. She really is such a love!!

Later everyone goes out to dinner but that just doesn't sound smart to me, so I sleep the evening away, barely noticing when Ginger comes to bed.  Sleep and meds are the order of the day! I'm sure I can live on strawberries!

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  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM

    Did i miss an entry that you were sick? We were on a short cruise sans wifi. If I missed it sorry to hear it. :(

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