Homepost - Tigerdate: 20220108 
1 week (+1 day) of reading!
I was too preoccupied with the healthy plants yesterday that I didnโt even notice itโs been a week already
Tanuki Scroll VIII: ใใใใใใใ 
& ใญใใใฎๆฉ่ฟใ 
First is a world folk tale (a Grimmโs tale) about porridge! so much porridge
I think this oneโs aimed at smaller kids than the usual stories on here since I found it rather easy. Which is a nice reminder that my reading has actually improved!
Small reflection that ended up not being so small
I enjoyed the Summer and Autumn challenges (a lot) but Iโm enjoying this one even more as it feels my reading has improved quite a bit (big thanks to these reading challenges!! 
). It doesnโt take me as long anymore, so the stories are making a lot more sense, since I donโt have to keep checking and rechecking the same words all the time, and Iโm catching on to some of the puns and nuances a bit more.
I did keep up with my reading after the Autumn challenge but didnโt read anything during the Christmas-New Year period and it feels like my Japanese ability has magical incubated itself in the downtime (that or itโs the magic power of the sake I had at new year). Well, my reading has improved at least, Iโm still bombing the reviews I have left on WaniKani but I think thatโs more due to the words left are ones I never come across and just, you know, those words that for some reason your brain refuses to learn because reasons.
It actually feels like Iโm making headway on this whole Japanese thing.
ANYWAY back to the reading!
The second story was another short one, a folktale from Yamagata Prefecture, about a fox who tricks people but ends up getting caught and sees the errors of its way (after getting threated to become fox soup).
โ Learnings โ
New Words
้จใใใ ใพใใใผ To deceive, to trick. (I feel I should have seen this by now with all the fox stories Iโve read, but if I have I really donโt remember it)
ๆใฏใใใใใใฏใใใใผ Outskirts of a village / the edge of town
Names
ๆฌกๅฉใใใใใ
ๅไฝใใใใใใ