Spring in the Japanese countryside: Dog’s 1st birthday, new hot water, & weeding

To celebrate Pancake’s spring birthday, I wanted to highlight Heart Tokushima, the shelter where we adopted him. Visit https://www.heart-tokushima.com/donat... to support their efforts in rescuing and rehoming cats and dogs on Shikoku, and we will all send virtual hugs and kisses (and slobbers from Pancake)!
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👩‍🌾 About Maigomika 👨‍🌾 We are Canadians renting and living in an ‘akiya’ house, one of the many vacant houses in the countryside of Japan, along with our 100% countryside dog mix, Pancake.🐕
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📖Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:22 Birthday pancakes for Pancake
01:17 Spring walk
02:14 Inside our neighbour’s akiya house
03:18 Cooking wild ‘fuki’ butterbur
04:30 Lightning Storm
06:38 New hot water system
07:42 Weeding
09:21 Strawberry picking with neighbours
10:11 Cleaning gutters for rice fields
10:48 Flower gardening updates
13:14 Akiya house hunting continues
15:11 Heart Tokushima animal shelter and rescue
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