For the New Year: Attach a prayer to a tree
The custom for those who participate in this
Shinto custom is to buy a special prayer for good luck, add the names of all those concerned and attach it to one of the designated trees at the shrine.
(This is one of the ways in which the temples rake it in).


A nice trick with the Indian tea
Lone Star chicken fajitas (also there's beef&pork)
The Planets in orbit
April 23 2006 1 week after blooming