Hi, everyone!
Sunflower, welcome to our blog and
long time no see!
I'm looking forward to seeing you this weekend.
Azalea, your comment is always funny.
"Nekohiroshi" was just great~!
Alice, your event sounds pleasant,
but take care of you, please...
Plum, I feel sorry about your parents.
I remenbered my dead grandfather.
Lukily my parents are healthy now, but I have to
treat them more kindly.
It was only a week ago that we started our blog .
These discussions are very interesting and instructive for me.
How nice our blog is!
The Internet is wonderful, isn't it?
So, good night, everyone...
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Hello, everyone.
I would like to to correct errors in my message. It is not decorated by but decorated with.( What a basic error!!! In my messages, some or many are found) If you don't mind, would you point out my grammatical error or strange expressions? Thank you very much.
Today, I dug the ground to haverst all of potatoes. Other harvest is 3 cucumbers. Then I will make potato salad. All ingredients are made in my garden except for an egg.
sorry for my exaggeration. You add only an onion to above vegetables.
Hello, Cherry.
Thank you for making this nice blog for us flowers. I'm glad I can join you and to have a chat with you.
I have a small garden. I planted an eggplant seedling in a big earthen flowerpot severa weeks ago. Now I can see it growing bigger and branching off. I noticed several tiny purple flowers blooming and one baby eggplant.
Rainy season might be beneficial to the growth of vegetables.
Let's eat plenty of fresh plants for our health!
Hi, Azalea!!! Hi, everyone!!!
How was the taste of your potato salad? I love potato salad, especially with some hard boiled egg slices as well as crispy cucumber and fresh onion slices, which should be very thin. Snow peas are my favorite vegetable, and so slightly boiled snow peas could be added. Some people have them uncooked, but I prefer them cooked, just a little bit, though. I normally don’t make potato salad in Japan, but I made it quite often in Sydney early this year. Probably I will make it many, many times while I am there until the middle of September.
Apparently you lead a very healthy life, don’t you, Azalea? It is lovely to grow vegetables for your own daily consumption. The vegetables from your own garden are safe and of high quality. Someday I would like to have my own vegetable garden, though I really hate seeing small budworms crawling around on leaves and stems. Some people say they are cute, but I have never had that thought. How about you, Azalea?
Did you have a good day today, my dear friends? I really hope so.
Hello! everyone.
Plum, I also like snow peas(I don't know this word, thank you) and when I make potato salad next, I will use them. Thank you for your good suggestion. Yesterday's one is so so. I am glad you like potato salad because I like potato salad the best in salads. I assume your daughter waits for your potato salad.
About 20 years ago, I grew Chinese cabbage. Around my yard, many people used agricultural chemicals and I didn't. Insects knew it.(someone said to me.) Insects or budworms were rampant. I could not enter the chinese caggage growing place. I was afraid of worms. One day, one neighbor said to me. ' I have never seen such an artiscti thing.' All Chinese cabbages left only veins. Then I began an eradicating campain with chopsticks with resolution. First I could not find out worms. They appear at night(They are called Yatoumushi meaning the insect stealing at night.). Sometimes they make sound when they eat leaves. One worm can eat one big leaf over night. During day time, they are in the soil with humidity. Butterfly's worm are found easily because they are always on leaves and stems. I removed them with chopsticks. I learnt how big and what kind of worms they are from their droppings after one season. Now I can catch butterfly's worm at bare hands. I suppose you will get used to worms.
This year, my eggplants are not in good shape. I envy you, Sunflower.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you?
Everything is OK? That’s fine!!!
Today I went to my hairdresser’s salon, but actually she is on leave. She delivered a baby boy last month and will not be there until the end of this year. Thus, a male hairstylist, her substitute, did my hair, and he was more liberal than her in terms of hair highlighting. My hairdresser apparently considers my age, my profession and my lifestyle, and tries to, sort of, harmonize my hair highlighting to them. Consequently, I normally do not get hair highlighting which is worth paying the price for it. (It’s always hard to distinguish highlighted part and not highlighted one.) But her substitute got me real highlighting, which was fabulous in a way and was definitely worth paying for that. I really like this one, although I don’t know how my friends will feel about it.
Last night, actually very early this morning, my daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl. Now I am a granny. It was wonderful, exciting and blissful news. My son was in her labor room when she delivered her baby, and so his experience of that moment would strengthen their bond in marriage and would give him a beneficial influence in his paternity. He said his baby was born 15 or 20 minutes after they got into the labor room (it was easy labor, he said, though he said he did not know much about labor, … I just laughed on the phone, …what else could I have done???), and his baby was the most precious treasure, yes, she should be, shouldn’t she? I am going to see the baby next weekend, not this coming one, to tell her to welcome to this world. (It is full of trickery, but nonetheless it is a beautiful place.)
Good night, everyone. Sleep tight…
Hi,everyone!
At last I could join you thanks to azalea. I'm magnolia instead of Amanda. I found some happy news of babies. Congratulations, plum. You must be looking forward to seeing your grandchild. You'll be a granma of two grandchildren this year. How wonderful itis! I know grandchildren are the cutest in the world!
By the way, I like avocado and potato salad very much, which I usually ate in Ausuralia. Oh, that's a mouth-watering memory.
I should buy avocado and make that salad tomorrow.
Good night!
Hello everyone and Magnolia!!!!!!
Plum, Congratulations on your newborn granchild!!!!!!
How long haven't I nestled my cheek on my daughter? I pine a lot.
However, I forget how to bathe a baby. Do you remember how to raise a child?
Today I am very sleepy, something wrong with my intestin, maybe.
Have a nice weekend!! See you on Sunday!!!!!!
Hi, everyone!!!
How was your day today?
It’s always so exciting to come to this blog, ‘cause everyone's messages are intriguing and informative.
Yesterday, one of my neighbors living behind my house brought the community net which was used to cover up our trash so as to prevent crows from spreading it around. When I opened the door for her and got the net from her, I noticed a plastic bag sitting by one of our round columns at the entrance. Thus, after she went away, I opened the door again and took it in. I found some vegetables and a note in it, which was from the other neighbor behind my house. She wrote that she had been given a lot of fresh vegetables and would like to let me have some. She also wrote that she and her husband were comforted by our pet cat, Tabo. Tabo is a female cat I brought from New Zealand more than ten years ago. When Monamie was brought to our house two years ago, she got terribly upset and unbelievably angry, ran away, and began to stay at my neighbor’s place, though she came back for her meals. (She still stays around at her place and greets some neighbors walking by her place by friendlily approaching them, and so they apparently believe that Tabo is her cat now.)
My neighbors are very sweet and gentle, not judgmental. I know it is annoying and upsetting, and sometimes even irritating, to see somebody’s cat walking around, rolling around and running around after something in one’s own garden. But they are very patient, and even kind to my cat. Incredible, isn’t it?
I wrote a thank-you card to her and dropped it in her mail box, and came back and lay on the sofa. Eventually I suppose I went to sleep. When I woke up and looked at the clock, it was 7 p. m.
I am going to the conference to do some volunteer work tomorrow. I have no idea how it will turn out to be. Tokie san and Kodama san are also coming, and so we will be able to manage it.
I hope all my friends had a good time today. I don’t know why, but I am a little tired tonight. Probably I worked on my writing project too hard for the past few days. Good night, my friends.
Hi, everyone!!!
It's me who removed the message before mine. I posted my message, but wanted to change it after that, and so I took it away and posted a new one. Sorry.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you?
I met Tokie san, Magnolia, Alice, and Asahi san at the conference venue. It is always good to see my friends. Tokie san and I had lunch together while Magnolia was working at her reception desk. Then I went to the main hall, thinking that Mizuno san or Tada san might be working as an interpreter. But I was told that they were coming on Sunday. It’s Saturday today.
Then, I came back to my desk, and, what a surprise, I bumped into my relative, who said that she came to attend the sign language seminar. In fact I happened to see her at Chubu Airport toward the end of this March when I went there to meet a friend of mine from Sydney coming from Hong Kong following her stay with her lady friends in the city and my relative was there to meet her husband returning from somewhere in China. There were some flights arriving from a variety of cites in China at that time of the day.
I had not seen her for 25, perhaps 30 years. Apparently she had gained some weight over the years and looked quite different from what she was before. But I could recognize her and talked to her. She was surprised and so was I.
Do you believe the old Japanese saying which goes what will happen twice will happen thrice??? If it’s true, I will run into her again somewhere sometime. I am not so excited about it, and I am sure she is not either… that’s life, isn’t it?????
Just a small talk. I hope you were happy today.
Good night, my friends.
Hello, everyone.
Today, thanks to Tokie-san, we comfortably practiced a lot. Gratitude!!!
Today, I was very encouraged to write in this blog in English by Plum. Hence, I will try to write every day in the rest of 3 months except for trip to somewhere.
If not, exactly, I don't have a chance to express something in English. I really thank you for Plum's insight.
I hear Cherry is interested in my kitchen garden story. Then Today I talk about a would-be farmer story. Recently the hard thing to me is to hurt or kill an earthworm, when I use a sickle. As you know, they are a symbol of fertility. Do you think about when they disapper on the earth? Plants certainly go extinct. It reminds me of one film in which Blad Pid Plays the leading character. In Tibet, he is engaged in civil engineerings. Monks ask him not to use tools, because they kill living things.
Hi, everybody.
Thank you Plum, Tokie san, and Magnolia for helping us, yesterday.
I hope you enjoyed attending the conference.
Today, Tada san and Mizuno san came to help us but no interpreter was needed for either session.
Plum, something called synchronicity must have happened between you and the relative you met yesterday.
I have been attracted to this kind of coincidence, though this sounded pseudoscientific. Now I believe in the existence of power causing such a phenomenon not because of I'm a fatalist but because I'm a realist.
Everything that happens in this world happens for some reason. If I understand correctly, everything is associated at least at the quantum level, according to the theory of synchronicity. Don't expect me to discuss chemistry further. My brain stops at this level when it comes to chemistry or chemical reaction.
By the way, I had a high fever on Thursday night. I went to a night clinic, got four strong pills, and slept around the clock. Somehow, I am able to move since yesterday. I don't think my brain has been working. Sorry for my unorganized comments. I will check spells before posting.
June 1, 2007 21:35 JST
Hi, everyone!!!
It’s Sunday today. Did you have a good time today?
I went to Tokie san’s place to have a rehearsal for the Aichi Seminar which was to take place on 22nd this month. Seven paper presenters gathered since Alice couldn’t make it; she had to work at the conference. My husband drove me there, but I was a little late, because he lost his way somewhere, probably near her house. He drove round and round and round…, since there were a lot of one-way signs.
After three members’ presentation, Tokie san took us to the Sushi shop for lunch. Apparently the shop had a renewal celebration, and we could see, everywhere in the shop, orchids in pots which were gorgeously and flamboyantly flowering. I think I heard them whispering to us, “I’m beautiful, aren’t I?”
We were led to a Japanese style room upstairs with a little dry garden of some rocks and plants on the veranda, where a large table was already set, and soon our lunch was served, which consisted of sushi, a soup and a drink. What a lovely and tasty lunch it was!!!
We returned to Tokie san’s place after finishing our meal and the rest of the members did their paper presentation, which was fascinating. All of them are quite ready for the seminar, which is splendid. I was especially impressed with the fact that the members who were going to make this type of presentation for the first time did an amazing job. Well done!!! They must have spent a tremendous amount of time and energy on their preparation. I really appreciate their efforts, which would be definitely rewarded at the seminar.
I had a great time with my friends. I hope you did.
Good night, everyone…
Hello, everyone. I enjoyed reading messages from our friends. Plum writes her daily events every day with a sense of humor. I love the cat’s story. What a surprise that a cat has a feeling of jealousy. Oh, poor Tabo! But how cute she is to come home to have a meal! she gets sulky like a little child.
Good-night! I'm sleepy.
sunflower
There is a peach tree growing in my garden. It is a very old tree. It is 18 years old and has two big branches. One has no leaves, just a black dry body but the other one is still living with green leaves. Surprisingly enough, it barely produced one excellent fruit this year.
This morning I witnessed one brown bird whose size was a bit smaller than a crow, picking at that round yellowish fruit several times. I enjoyed bird-watching from my living room.
When the peach tree was young, it produced plenty of fruits. Every year in this season, several kinds of wild birds such as Hiyodori often visited to pick at the fruits. The fruits have been beneficial to them. Year after year, it bore some number of fruit but I did not take care of them. So fruits miserably dropped one by one on the ground. I have felt a strong sense of responsibility for the deteriorating condition of the tree.
But the bird pecking on the fruit gave me a feeling of relief this morning.
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