January 6,2026- Sportage is now a Texan. In this state, a vehicle is to have a license plate i front and one in back. The rear plate is easy to attach. The front will take a bit of professional installation, in a few days. In the meantime, there is, for good measure, a registration tag that sits inside the front windshield. Sportage will soon be two platesful. I will get my Texas driver’s license at the end of the month. Same with my voter ID.

I am again in the practice of eating three meals a day-each with one plateful. Our family is doing fairly well, and food is plentiful. I just don’t want my torso to become too plentiful.

Hana is now getting a bit more active, and wanting to stay awake more during the day. She wants to be with us during dinner, so one of us will start eating late and whoever finishes first will take over snuggling honours. She can see a shadowy figure of someone talking to her from the upstairs landing, as she is held by her grandmother on the downstairs couch.

There is a small garden plot, that Yunhee’s mother has cleared in the backyard. We can plant things like turnips and spinach, and I will need to build a fence that will keep the squirrels out, once the seeds are planted. We want to fill our bellies, not theirs. They have plenty of acorns.

That’s the news of the day from our cul-de-sac.