A Small Shrine where I played 50 years ago, Cherry Flowers, and Sadogashima far behind
タグ: Niigata
Cherry Blossom Yesterday, though Sky was not so Clear
If I took pictures today, it would have been more beautiful because the sky was clear today. But I had been working on my field.
What I saw while I was walking in the paddy fields in Niigata, Northern JAPAN(2).
As of April 1st, It was declared that Cherry flowers had started blooming in Niigata.
What I saw while I was walking in the paddy fields in Niigata, Northern JAPAN.
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.
I can’t write a post for Japanese Leaning tonight.
It has been a tough day.
Skin got cracked on my both thumbs. Probably no one wants to see them
It happens in winter. If I expose my finger in cold air for some time, my finger skin gets crack. This time, I got it on the tips of thumb. Every time I touch something, I feel stinging like ache. I need to wash foods and cook meals using water, these cracks are annoying.
And, snow fall; if the ground is covered with snow, it makes me reluctant to work on my field.
Now the year 2025 is going to end. Let me look back the year by photos
January: I was living in the residence for foreign teachers. This photo shows what I put on steamed rice. It’s “Furikake” in Japanese.
February: I had been in my house in Japan during winter break. It seems that there was a lot of snow fall at that time.
March: The spring semester had started at the time of this photo. There was still ice on the surface of the pond in the campus.
April: Some plum flowers were blooming in the campus.
May: Iris flowers around the pond
June: When I was in the campus, I cooked all the meals myself except lunches in weekend. This is a typical dish which I ate for weekend lunch.
July: Though the final examination had ended, I was still in the campus, cleaning the room, and packing my belongings into suitcases to come back to my country, Japan.
August: Summer in this year was quite heated. This photo was taken on the way to a mobile phone shop.
September: Rice were becoming yellow at the beginning of September. Some were already harvested, and some were still green.
October: Japan’s “Susuki” and “Tall goldenrod” from foreign country were competing each other.
November: Iide mountains of altitude of 2000 meters had got snow.
December: Snow has come to low altitude area of Niigata.
My relax time after supper with a small package of snack
I usually write a blog post after supper. Today I worked a lot for the trellis for apple tree. It has been almost completed. And I received the result of chest x-ray test by regular mail from the city hall. I got the test on November 17th. And today is December 29th. It takes many days when it comes to works by public offices. Fortunately, the result was “no-problem”. If it said a further examination was needed, my daily life would be changed completely with anxiety. Since many relatives on my father side died of cancer, I think it is a kind like ticking bomb.
And now I am writing a blog post. I have already eaten a small package of snack. I decide not eating two packages; one at a night.
Still working on the Trellis; the clamp doesn’t fit pipes
I am thinking about making a square trellis on which the apple tree “Shinano Gold” can grow its branches. In my design, four steel pipes are connected at the corners. In order to make like that, I had bought four clamps for steel pipes whose diameter is 25.4 millimeter. But yesterday I realized that the clamp didn’t fit the phi 25.4 mm (1in) pipe. It seemed that the clamp was made to be compatible to both phi 22.2mm(7/8in) and phi 25.4 mm (1in) pipe. Probably the clamp can fit for phi 22.2mm pipe. But for 25.4 mm pipe that I have, its flange gets angle and bolt cannot go into the threads. That means pipes cannot be connected at the four corners of the trellis.
I remembered that there are another phi 31.2 mm (5/4in) steel pipes on the shelves of the DIY shop. I expected that a clamp for 31.2 mm might be able to fit my 25.4 mm pipes. So, I got on a local train in this morning, to go to the DIY shop in the town next to my village. In the store, I checked whether or not 31.2 mm clamp can grip 25.4 mm pipe. But I was disappointed by the fact that the clamp is too big to grip and fix 25.4 mm pipe. I saw the price card. Just one clamp costs three hundreds and some JPY (about 2.5 USD), which I thought expensive. I came to think that using clamps for my trellis was a kind of excessive quality too much. I left the DIY shop without buying any clamps. I wasted time and money for trains.
When I got back home, I tried thinking to other ways to connect two steel pipes at right angle. Actually, the problem has not been solved yet. I am still thinking to find a good way. Probably I will get a better answer tomorrow.
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