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David and I have been meaning to go to a cafe called Wild Hive for months. It's about 40 minutes from our house but close to where I volunteer every week so this week after a day of walking dogs at the shelter we drove there for a late lunch. The cafe is owned by a man named Don Lewis who is famous in the Slow Food movement here. He grows and processes organic, local grains into flours. The cafe also has a bakery that sells breads made from this flour. David and I both had the samosas and they were delicious. They came with handmade plum chutney and sauerkraut. For some reason most of the tasty restaurants in our area are expensive. It's hard to find cheap good food. Wild Hive is really affordable so we hope to go back again soon.

Here is a picture of our recent sugar snap pea harvest. We had so much that we put everything we couldn't immediately use in the freezer. We had ten zip lock bags full!

私は70年代と80年代に幼少期を過ごしました。マイケル・ジャクソンに関する一番最初の記憶は、毎週見ていたジャクソン・ファイブの子供番組です。私はこのオープニングが大好きでした。

私はジャクソン・ファイブのビニール盤のファーストアルバムを持っていて、何度も何度も爆音でかけては歌い、踊りまくっています。うちの旦那様に聞いてごらんなさい・・・。

小さい頃は「Rockin' Robin」を一緒に歌ってくれる友達もいました。私はジャクソン・ファイブのバージョンが好きです。

マイケルのミュージックビデオで覚えている最初のものは「Can You Feel It」です。フューチャリスティックなフィーリングがその当時の流行でした。『Tron（トロン）』とか『Xanadu（ザナドゥ）』のような映画、「Buck Rogers」や「21st Century」「Battlestar Gallactica」のようなTVショウのような。

ダイアナ・ロスとマイケル・ジャクソンが共演した『The Whiz』という映画が公開されたとき、お母さんが映画館へ連れていってくれました。それは『オズの魔法使い』を全員黒人のキャスティングと都会（NYC)のセッティングでリメイクした映画でした。残念ながら、私は意地悪な魔女が怖くて、映画の途中で文字通り映画館から走って逃げ出しました・・・後ろからお母さんがくすくす笑いながらついてくる中で。そして、サウンドトラックのLPはアパートの廊下のクローゼット奥深くに隠さなければなりませんでした。魔女が、レコードをつたってどうにかして私をつかまえにやってくると思い込んでいたので。

私は、皆さんがおそらく今まで見たことも聞いたこともないようなものを共有してみたかったんです。だって、ほとんどの人たちは、特に私より若い人たちはこういうものを見る機会がなかっただろうと思ったので。マイケルの他のキャリアについては、皆さんよくご存知だと思うので。

マイケルの冥福をお祈りします。

I grew up in the 70's and 80's. My first memory of Michael Jackson is from the Jackson 5 cartoon show I watched every week. I loved this opening sequence.

I have the first Jackson 5 album on vinyl and have been known to blast it and sing and dance around to it on many occasions. You can ask my husband.....

I had a friend when I was little who I used to sing "Rockin' Robin" with also. I loved the Jackson 5 version of that.

"Can You Feel It" is the first music video I remember with Michael. The futuristic feeling was something that was in the air back then. Movies like Tron and Xanadu, TV shows like Buck Rogers and the 21st Century and Battlestar Gallactica.

My mother took me to see the movie "The Whiz" with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson when it came out in theaters. It was a remake of the Wizard of Oz with an all black cast set in an urban setting (NYC). Unfortunately I was terrified of the wicked witch and literally ran out of the theater in the middle of the movie with my mother following behind me giggling. I had to hide the soundtrack LP in the closet in the hallway of our apartment because I thought the witch could somehow come out through the record and get to me.

I just wanted to share some things with you that maybe you never had seen or heard. I figure most people, especially if they are younger than me, wouldn't have had the chance to see any of this. The rest of Michael's career you probably know about.
Rest in peace Micheal.