My parents are buried in Johnson City, Tennessee

When my father came to live with us in Johnson City, Tennessee, after my mother died in Taiwan in 1984, I decided to bring my mother's ashes to the United States. We buried the them in Tennessee, not far from our home. My father enjoyed living with us for ten years. He certainly shared many joyful moments with his many grandkids. He passed away in 1994 and is also buried in Johnson City. 

Recently my brother Ed drove a long way from Washington State to visit his children and relatives on the east coast. On his way back home, he drove south to visit my parents' burial grounds and took the following two pictures:

It is nice to see these lovely flowers on their graves. Janice and I would very much like to thank Ed for his thoughtful gesture and I want to share these pictures with all of you who know us.

The third reunion of some of our group which visited the SHU-Road in 2017

In 2017, a group of us under the leadership of Hope Justman went to hike on the Shu-Road. Please see "http://jat.esmartweb.com/nature-photos/Shu-path/Shu_Road.htm" for details. We had such a good time that we have now gathered together three times to renew the Happy Experience. The picture below was taken by Hope at the lunch we had together in Philadelphia this week. (Janice is in the picture but she did not travel to the Shu Road with us.) We shared a lot of good memories and felt especially lucky to be able to meet during this Pandemic!

Persimmon trees

Persimmon Trees

I have never been a farmer in my life, even though  I tried many times to plant some tomatoes or cucumbers. We often enjoyed the results, but I never paid much attention to whether the harvest was great or small. I planted some Chinese Jotsi too, but really did not pay much attention to it. 

Three years ago, our friend helped me buy two persimmon trees and plant them in our backyard, as shown in the picture below:

            

We had some fruit last year and they tasted very good! We enjoyed eating them! But this year, by comparison, we had quite a large crop come out! The shape of the tree was distorted  because of the weight:

           

 A close shot of the fruit is shown below. Can you believe this picture? We are very happy and pleased to enjoy this kind of harvest!

                      

Forgetting!

Accidently, we came across a copy of a photo album which looked brand new. The front cover can be seen in the picture below:

When you open it up, the first picture is as follows:

I do remember this picture, but we do not remember that it was given to us in this album. There are many other photos, showing  some of the activities during a workshop we gave together in Quizhou, China, in August, 1998.

 The workshop was sponsored by the Texas Instruments company. On the back of the picture is a list of all the Chinese names of the people who participated in the workshop.

It was very nice of the organizers of the workshop to create this album for us.  The entire workshop was extremely well planned.  

The album included a page written to remind us about the details of the workshop. We are both amazed  that we do not remember this at all! Are we really getting old NOW!