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My mom’s Christmas trees!!!!!!

No, I am not in the United States. I am in Fukushima City. So what’s the news here?

Two tidbits:

This is a news article about what is being considered to be done with irradiated water:

https://time.com/5754524/fukushima-nuclear-water-release-environment/

Irradiated water is still accumulating, says the article. What to do? What to do?

The Ministry of Magic’s Delores Umbridge has determined the best thing to do is to whisk a wand over the water and drink it like soup. Cornelius Fudge, however, thinks it would be best to raise tadpoles in the irradiated water and see what happens. Perhaps some very exciting results.

One thing is for sure. It’s not a laughing matter.

The second news article: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191223/p2g/00m/0na/034000c

Thursday, December 26, 2019, the Emperor and Empress of Japan will visit both Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture. Their reason for coming to Tohoku is to visit two areas that were hard-hit (and still suffering) due to a terrible typhoon that struck in October (2019) in Japan, and to give support to the people of those areas.

And now one of my favorite dogs, Chako. She is super duper sweet.