Anne of Green Gables (1979, dir. Isao Takahata)

my dad and i have finished watching Heidi, Girl of the Alps and are now moving onto our next series !!

my dad drew this picture of me 😊

today my dad and i will complete our watch of Isao Takahata's Heidi, Girl of the Alps

Takahata (Pom Poko, Tale of the Princess Kaguya) directed the 52-episode adaptation of the Swiss novel in 1974, over a decade before the founding of Studio Ghibli

Miyazaki called Heidi Takahata's "masterpiece"

my dad loves tacos... he makes them for the family once a week almost and we love them :)

practice card drawings by my dad

my dad made us unearth my old sonic the hedgehog mini pinball machine toy to see if we could get it working for his grandsons

(the motor that moves all the little elements works, but the lights and sounds are busted, looks like... also battery acid has been eating thru the entire thing 😔)

wow!

my dad just texted me this photo of a rainbow he saw on his walk

text from my dad just now (August 11, 2022)

my dad texted this to me tonight (July 16, 2021)

my dad sent me an email entitled "cool dragonfly" with photos of a dragonfly he saw attached (August 5, 2020)

my dad is separately texting several immediate family members about a man at the airport who is loudly farting (January 17, 2020)

my dad snuck this picture of me and coco sleeping on christmas (December 25, 2019)

my dad just texted this to me (December 18, 2019)

my dad is also a grampa now (July 7, 2019)

(April 19, 2019)