Sakura Mochi, a Sweet, Pink-colored Mochi Rice Cake wrapped with the Leaves of Cherry Tree.

Now it’s already 9p.m. I don’t have time to write a post about Japanese Learning tonight.

I found them on the shelves of a local grocery store today. 220 means that two hundred and twenty Japanese Yen.

I think that those two were disappeared into my stomach within three minutes.

What I saw while I was walking in the paddy fields in Niigata, Northern JAPAN(2).

I saw these trashes thrown onto the ground.
I hope that it was not a drunken drive.
In the old years, rice had been hung on that trees to dry them up.
I don’t know the name of these flowers.
It is rare to see green leaves because it’s still early spring.
Cattle’s droppings can be a good fertilizer.
“Do not throw the garbage”
Cherry flowers are still buds.

As of April 1st, It was declared that Cherry flowers had started blooming in Niigata.

I didn’t think I was so exhausted.

I got up at 5:30a.m. this morning. I had to attend my mother because she was going to move to another hospital today. Since the end of February, she had been hospitalized because of cerebral infarction. Now it is the time for her to move to the next hospitalization to get rehabilitation. I got on a train at 7:30 and a bus at 7:57. I quickly gathered her belongings in the hospital, and we left there at around 9 by a taxi modified for transporting sick people. All through the morning after we got to the new hospital, I got a lengthy explanation, did consultations, and signed on a lot of documents. I left the new hospital at 12:20 by the free shuttle bus of the hospital.

 Getting off a local train at my village, I went to a supermarket and bought packages of Sushi and fresh sardines. I took my late lunch at 1:30, eating Sushi. Then I just wanted to take a short nap on the bed to get rid of my fatigue. But it couldn’t be a short one. I found that it was already 6 p.m. when I awoke from the nap. I got out of my bed and I called to two uncles to let them know that my mother had moved to another hospital.

 Then, I started to cook sardines.

It was terrible that I couldn’t find a function to rotate an image 90, 180, or 270 degrees on the editor of wordpress. I had to rotate images on my computer and upload them again.