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Two years have changed my garden to bush

There is a small field to cultivate vegetables in the back of my house. Since I had been working abroad in these two years, now the field is covered with weeds. I need to pull them out and cultivate soil by my hand in order to plant vegetables in autumn.

Now it’s the end of July, and summer continues in August. When I came back here two days ago, I quickly realized that there had not been rainfall for long. Everything was dried. Probably three weeks or even one month, my area hasn’t got precipitation. Many leaves became yellow, some trees were withered and died.

Another problem is heat. In addition to drying weather, temperature is high in this summer. It gets 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) every day. I don’t think it is good for my health and safety if I work in my field in the middle of scorching heat and under strong sunshine.

So, I got up 4:30 a.m. in this morning, went to my field, pulled weeds, and gave water to trees. When I approached to grape trees and gripped weeds with my hand, I was stung by two bees. I felt sharp pain on my left hand. Luckily enough, my left hand hasn’t got much aching nor red swelling after that.

Anyway, I know I have to work a lot on my field to make it again well managed vegetable field.

Two Heavy Suitcases from Narita Airport has been Delivered Today.

These days, many international flights are operated in Haneda Airport. But when it comes to going abroad, I prefer Narita Airport. In my thought, going to a foreign country and getting on an airplane in Narita Airport are connected each other.

Besides, if you choose the Mono-rail for the access to Haneda Airport, you have to endure a fear of “Oh am I going to dive into the sea if the monorail car is derailed?”, before worrying about safety of your flight.

Anyway, every time I go to and arrive at Narita Airport, I use delivery service for my heavy suitcase. This time, they were 24 and 23 kilograms. It was impossible for me to carry them with me from the airport to my home in Niigata. So, I asked Kuroneko Yamato to deliver them. Their counter is located at the north end of the North-wing of the Terminal 1. It was at around 7p.m. 22nd on Tuesday, and today 24th, I got them in my home.

The photo shows two packages of spices. One is chili pepper and the other is cumin seed. The cylindrical one on the left is 1kg of dried Soba noodle. They were in one of my suitcases.

I quit the job. Now I am back in my Hometown.

For some reason, I quit my job in a university. I had been a Japanese teacher for six years. The photo is a waiting area in the airport.

This is what I found in the airport.

a meal in a business class of Asiana airlines

This is a meal that I ate in the flight for Incheon International Airport. The dressing in the salad was so good. It was like a paste made from fresh basil and olive oil. I would like to make the same kind by myself.

The airplane landed on B-runway, slowly moved a long way to the terminal near A-runway. I wish a short cut from B-runway to Terminal 1. Anyway, the safe landing was the best thing that I should be thankful.

Now I am back in my mother country. Probably the second best thing.

Paying some additional charges for “Keisei Sky Liner”, I got to the JR Ueno station less than an hour. Plus, I could use free Wifi in the trains. In the old times, all the trains bound for north part of Japan departed from this station. Although this entrance looks a little small, actually the JR Ueno station is a big railway hub.

The time was just before midnight. This is the last train of a day. I came back to my hometown in northern part of Japan.

The Second Best Solution to avoid Low Nutrition of Old People.

If I cook for my mom, it would be the best in order to keep her health. And that is what I have done during this winter break. But I cannot continue to cook for her because the spring semester is about to start within a week.

Eating snacks is not good for health by any means. But I thought they could be a solution for my mom to avoid low nutrition.
Tomorrow I am leaving Niigata for Narita Airport. I have to say good-bye to my hometown.

I am not sure if I can make it.

Now the end of the winter break is coming. I have to pack my suite cases up and prepare to move to Narita Airport. But the problem is that I am not ready for the classes in spring semester. I have been working through the break except yearly income tax filing. I have completed the preparation for the composition classes for the second year students, but it took too many days. I don’t have enough days remaining for preparation for the listening classes for the first year students.
Tomorrow a shipment company will come to my house to pick up my suite cases for Narita. I don’t have time, and I am not sure if I can teach good classes for my students in coming spring semester.

My Summer Break is Going to end soon.

A photo in JR Niitsu Station in Winter (NOT NOW).

Summer is almost over. What was good in this summer was not as hot as last year.

I’m back in my Hometown

I got off an airplane in the Narita International Airport.

Having finished the formalities for entry, now I am in the land of Japan.

My funny habit is to get on a train of Keisei Line every time I go to and back from Narita Airport. If I got on a JR train, just one ticket should have brought me to my hometown with cheaper fare. But this time, too, I got on a Keisei train for Ueno.

It was a short walk from Keisei Ueno station to JR Ueno.

Bullet train (Shin-kansen) platform is in deep underground.

A view from Shin-kansen window of Niigata plain. This is a place for paddy fields.

Now the local train is approaching to my little hometown.

Big Letters on Smoking Booth

There is a Smoking Booth near Bandaiguchi-Exit on JR Niigata station. Oh, but let me tell you, I am not a smoking person. I have never ever smoked even a single cigarette through my life of more than a half century. Passive smoking was terrible when I was a young company man, but I have already retired from company work. Now I am free from smoke of others.

Anyway, I took the photo above, and then I walked to the other side of this smoking booth. What I found there was…

Smoking Booth with Warning Written in Big Letters

It reads;
BAN on Smoking Outside This Facility;
A lot of complaints are coming (to the City Office) due to part of users with bad manner. If this situation continues, this smoking booth would need to be demolished. We ask you to smoke only inside of the facility.

As if these big letters indicate how the Niigata municipal government is angry with bad smoking people.
And I thought that, if there are a lot of complaints, it would not be “part of users” but it might be “many of users”.