2007/2008 Getting Ready for New Year's Food

There is a little over a day left in 2007. Our Hilton House was finished in December 2004. That means we've lived here in Saranap 3 years. It feels longer than that. Probably it is because we have settled down comfortably.

I promised to teach Daughter-in-law Betty how to prepare our traditional Japanese (Kikuchi Family) New Year's food. We eat rice cakes, roots, fish, roe and other delicacies on New Years Day brunch. I started gathering supplies yesterday. Tomorrow we will get some perishable supplies and start cooking in Betty's kitchen. Meanwhile husband George and Morris are guarding the supply.