Now I'm taking a hot spring bath at Hokone, and looking at cherry blossoms. What a good hot spring! My fatigue was able to be relieved completely. I want to say so, but it's a talk in my pedometer.
I arrived in Hakone in nine days. The number of steps which walked is 60,900 steps, and the distance which walked is 106.9km. This is strange. In this calculation, my one step is about 175cm.
Am I Gulliver? If my one step is 50cm, I walked 30.45km, and I'm passing Kanagawa post station.
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My husband and I went to watch a movie, Enchanted. Since the location was New York, we expected the view of New York. Central Park, Times Square,… they didn’t disappoint us.
Almost people think the stories of Disney are for children, but this story made me remember the most important as person. However I know enough that people can't live only with love in society. But I’d like to believe love can change society, like this movie taught me.
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When I watered some flowerpots which were at the balcony, I was surprised to find the buds at the root of a cymbidium. I didn't see them two weeks ago, when I watered them.
You grew big buds like this in only two weeks? You could have the buds, though you were at the balcony during this cold winter? You have been knowing that I have been neglecting you? Since you didn't want to be forgotten, you did your best? So sorry. Please forgive me.
I'll replant them after finishing flowers, and take good care of them.
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I have four things to do every day.
1. Writeing my blog in English
2. Walking for an hour
3. Playing shogi
4. Making a box lunch weekdays.
Ａll of their purposes are for health. But there is one thing that makes me discourage in them. It's shogi. I played it for twenty days, twenty times with my husband. But the goddess of victory doesn't came to me once yet.
Ｉ believe ”Little by little one goes far.” and I'd like to outwit him sometime.
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This cattleya is Mini Song Petite. Three pedals of deep purple are luxurious. Especially the center pedal is so absolutely true to velvet.
The size of flower is about 11 centimeters. A thick pedals. Sweet fragrance.
The now season of my cattleya is once finished. My phalaenopsis will bloom in about a month.
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There are not an elevator and an escalator at my office. There is only stairs.
I had been carrying personal computers to the second floor from the first floor. At that time I saw an old handyman who had a big vacuum-cleaner and wore sandals on upstairs. An ominous premonition that his sandals were dangerous was across my mind. And I thought that I would avoid the cord of the vacuum-cleaner and I would go up stairs.
At that moment, I stumbled on last stair and fell. My right knee split open. However a PC was safe. Who must be careful of was myself.
Even after the wound heals, the scar will remain. Since I wanted to know how my husband answered, I said on purpose "I cannot wear a miniskirt any longer after this." He burst out laughing. I said that "I know I'm not young. But don't laugh" in my heart.
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I sent a facsimile to ○×company. I pushed 0456789999.
"Happy Blue Bird, did you send a facsimile? The facsimile machine is saying something in English. Maybe it’s in English.""Really? You must be kidding... Oh,...no.... !"The buttons that I pushed were 00456789999. It had much one zero.
“Which country did I push to?”"Only your eyes have been ill?” Since I'm old, it means my finger is ill too,
“No, my head is ill.”We laughed. He is older than me, but we are good friends.
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6.358, 6.109, 6.128, 6.649
These numbers are the number of steps that walked by one walk. Today's walk was 4th days, and the number of steps was 6.649.
The blood retest was not good, so I determined to take a walk for an hour every evening.
My pedometer is the fifty-three post stations of the Tokaido that bought for my husband several years ago.
I'm looking forward to arriving in Kyoto. When will it be and how many days will it take?
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I noticed the smell of a cattleya was stronger than usually, when I passed the back of it. It seemed strange, and I smelled the front of this flower. It was slight. I smelled the back of the flower again to make sure. Sure enough, the back was stronger.
I think maybe, flowers are for insects that fly, and the fragrance is for insects that creep up. Possibly honeydew that is on stems have fragrance.
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Now I have been dieing. My mother-in-law may be calling me "Come here, come here".
To tell the truth, my husband and I visited to the grave today. Since it was very warm, maybe much pollen scattered. So we were affected by the pollen very much. We were outdoors for about thirty minutes. It was very short time. But now I want to throw away my eyes, my nose, my head, all of my body.
I know that it's better taking medicine. But I want to use my liver for liquor than medicine, if I use it for same purpose, decomposition.
By the way my husband has been dieing too, so he is fast asleep now. Because he took medicine.
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This cattleya is blooming eight flowers. This is a child of
cattleya the other day.
The child grew bigger and stronger up than the parent. Moreover it has one more sheath. A shade of a small bud can be seen in it.
I don't know when the cattleya blooms. Soon or next spring? Anyway I'm looking forward to it very much.
Even flowers bloom through mutual concessions, but we... I'm made to think whenever this cattleya blooms every year.
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Unluckily it was rainy today. We were going to visit our family grave, but we didn't. Perhaps my father-in-law and my mother-in-law were looking forward to our visiting. I think they know we are indolent. However Ｉ had never seen my father-in-law, but I think he knows me well, because he has been looking at me from the sky for a long time.
I had thought that I did not want to be buried in the same grave, before. But now I think the same grave is all right. Maybe It will be that I have grown old.
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My husband was looking at a cooking program of television eagerly last night. After the program finished, he told me that
he would make Shrimp Mayonnaise tomorrow.
There are all of them, a green onion, a sesame oil, a ginger, a garlic, ……. and a mayonnaise. What is not is only a shrimp. I'll buy big shrimps tomorrow. He said so as if he declared. I was worried his skill in cooking, but I respected his motivation.
Tonight he made it. Although the green onion was burned a little, Shrimp Mayonnaise was good.
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This is the first cattleya I bought five years ago. At that time I didn't have any knowledge about cattleya, so I divided it to three roots after flowers finishes blooming. But it only weakened the root.
It bloomed big two flowers this year, but the color is not good. The color was purple, if I remember correctly.
Probably it will become a deep color by changing manure to an organic fertilizer.
This cattleya is a sister of
Lent-out cattleya. However the size of flower is larger than Lent-out Cattleya 2 centimeters, and its size is 15 centimeters. There is a sweet fragrance.
I'm calling this cattleya "Gentleman of a mustache". The start is
a comment. It's my friend,
ruruan.
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That cattleya that was close to death had four buds. Today the all of them bloomed.
The first bloomed flower became bigger than the beginning. The size of one flower is 9 or 10 centimeters, and they are giving off sweet fragrance.
The fragrance makes me relax and refresh, so I want to see them all day long.
I begin to think of a way to live without working. But I can’t find its way yet.
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There was not butter at a super market that I went to today. Certainly I heard the shortage of butter around autumn last year. But, at that time I thought that butter didn't run out from the town completely.
I think that there are some causes. The first, the consumption of milk decreased. And next, by a jump in crude oil prices, the feed cost becomes high and breeding of cows is becoming difficult.
What happens to cheese at this rate?
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A woman often visits a grave that is in front of my apartment. She always wipes the grave by a pure white cloth, and offers flowers and sticks of incenses. And then she prays with her hands together long time. It takes over thirty minutes to coming back from coming. There are always flowers at that grave. She certainly comes even if it’s a hot day or a cold day. Two words, Love, Thank you are engraved on the tombstone.
I always worry whose grave she worships. Her husband or Her child? Today the side gate of the temple yard had been opening, so I entered to see that grave.
That was a young man, Takeshi T. 25years old. He fell sick or was in an accident? I understand her feeling as a mother very well, so I’ll think of him who died and his mother whenever I look his grave from my room.
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Since we decided to play one game in a night, it was the 4th game on the night of the 4th. Of course I lost the game. That was not a matter, because I was prepared for that.
But my eyes filled with the tears when I recognized my defeat.
I looked back on the why. It was tears of vexation against myself, because I couldn't read his several moves ahead.
So, last night, I thought to buy a text of shogi, and to learn it secretly after he slept.
But since it was raining this evening, I didn't go to a bookstore. Where did my tears of vexation go to?
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There is a big Japanese apricot tree at my office. It's in half blossom now. Although nobody takes care of it, it bears much fruit every year.
Some of us make pickled ume or ume liquor, with this Japanese apricot. But I don't make both. Because I don't eat much pickled ume, and since ume liqueur is sweet, I'm afraid of excessive drinking. But I like seeing its flower, especially its bud. The spherical bud is really lovely.
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Yesterday when I came back home and enter the room, I felt fresh air. And my head gradually was refreshed. The cause was an air cleaner. Since the pollen scattered so much yesterday, it was set. It was the first time this year.
This small air cleaner saved me from the pollen. However I completely forgot the value of the air cleaner. Then I turned it off when going to the bed. My eyes became itchy as soon as turning it off, and I had to turn it on again.
At that time, this small and cute air cleaner looked like a savior.
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This cattleya was divided a root for replanting in the spring of last year. Since this root was weak very much, I thought to throw away it at the beginning. But I grew it for trial.
To my surprise a new root came out in the autumn of last year!
After finding a new root, I have taken care of it carefully till today. I was moving it according to the motion of the sun, on holidays during this winter.
Today one of buds bloomed at last.The size of this flower is smaller than usual year. But it's just enough to bloom, because it was close to death.
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Today I found New Study Shogi of Kumon at a bookstore. The direction of moving of each piece(Koma) is written to all pieces by the arrow. I couldn't learn the direction of moving of all pieces(Koma), because they are intricate. I thought I could do it with this, so I said to my husband.
Let's play Shogi with thisCan you really play? You can never win me. I don’t take care of you even if you lose.You mean that it's easy? All right! I intend to win. I declared impressively, but I don't know any tactics yet.
It was too early to have declared war to him. But I couldn't withdraw it.
We played the first game tonight, and I was defeated.
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This catteleya is pink color, too, but this is a little different from
Pink Mist. There are some red lines like mustaches into the center pedal.
Size of about 13cm, thin pedals than
Pink Mist, sweet fragrance.
My husband likes pink flowers. I don’t know why he likes pink color. Maybe he wants something instead of a daughter. Yes, I can't be a daughter.
This catteleya is at Horikawa Beauty Salon now. I wish customers of Horikawa Beuty Salon enjoy it.
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Yashiro-san left the Hospital the day before yesterday.
Today when I went to Ann, he was making crepes already. He was training up for regaining the skill.
His son was worried that he was premature to stand at the shop. But he wanted to come back soon. They said that they quarreled about that this morning to me. So I said them "I understand both feelings well. Please quarrel many times, since you are a parent and a son."
A crepe made by him who left the hospital two days ago made me filled with deep emotion.
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I sometimes listen to the radio AFN that was called FEN before. I think that people of the same generation as me feels the closer to FEN.
I often hear a word “Igo Eight Ten” on the radio AFN. I thought what "Igo Eight Ten" is, but I could soon imagine what “Eight Ten” is, because "Eight Ten" is the frequency of AFN. But I couldn't imagine “Igo”.
Whenever I hear it, it's audible only with "Igo". I thought of looking up it on the web page of AFN. To my surprise, “Igo Eight Ten”was "Eagle 810".
I can’t still catch eagle, since the announcer says eagle very fast.
Don’t say an excuse. Train my ears.
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At my office, we buy office supplies at a net shop from about one year before. These cute toys, Choro-Q are free gifts of the net shop.
Net shop of office supplies is very convenient. Because there are many good things for consumer, for example great variety, speedy delivery, low price and no charge for postage. Moreover there is premium.
I'd like to support retail shops, but my office has to save costs. As a result we cause retail shops full of hardships.
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I don’t know the name of this cattleya. Since it was inexpensive, ｔhere wasn't a name-card at the beginning, maybe...
It blooms two or three flowers every year, but only one flower is blooming this year. The factors are maybe the heat of last summer
and my watering insufficiently. So the bulbs couldn’t be grown enough to bloom some flowers.
The pedals are slender and no frilled, and no fragrance, so if there is no bulb, it will not seem a cattleya.
The size of the flower is about 9 centimeters.
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Yesterday, yellow sand came down from China. Moreover it had sprinkle in last evening.
This morning I was surprised to see my car. It was changed to a dirty polka-dot car.
I can’t say about a policy of foreign country, but I want to say in a loud voice. Please think measures against yellow sand!
By the way, there was the smell of activated sludge in yellow sand of yesterday. I don’t know whether the smell was the soil pollution or the air pollution, but I hope that people will not be sick by yellow sand.
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After that my friend sent me an e-mail about accent of Barack and black.
Barack sounds similar to Black. Accent on Barack is Ba, but Black is La. That's the major difference.Next time I'll listen carefully.
An e-mail was sent me from my friend again.
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I sometimes listen the radio AFN from Yokota Air Base when I go to work in the car.
Recently I hear a word of black Obama on the radio many times.
I was wondering why he said black Obama, and why he didn’t say white Hillary or white Clinton. I was wondering his voice was race discrimination. I was wondering whether it was permitted on public broadcast.
Yesterday I asked my friend about that. She said, “No, it isn’t black. It’s Barack. His name is Barack Obama. Yeah, surely Barack may hear black.”
I need to train my ears.
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At last Lttle Carnival bloomed. After finding budｓ, it took about three weeks.
The petals are light pink and thin. There is no fragrance. The petal is soft to touch like a cherry blossom.
Although it isn't visible to a carnival, it maybe visible to a festival. It's really small, so I put it on the kitchen counter. So, kitchen works became more joyful.
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The Dendrobium kept for the Horikawa Beauty Salon began to bloom.
I was taking care of it for one year at her request. I had never grown Dendorobium, and I didn't have any confidence in growing it, but I brought my room for her and its
Dendorobium.
The color of the flower is deeper and the size of the flower is bigger than last year. But there are few flowers than last year. Maybe the cause is the lack of water of last summer. It seems an orchid that likes water.
Today I handed it to her. Her smiling face made me think that if she asked me to keep it this year too, I would grow it more well.
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