タグ: Niigata

The Tomatoes in my Garden are Suffering Damage from “Tobacco Budworms”

These days, I quite often find holes and droppings on some of the tomatoes in my field.

I apologize if a viewer happened to eat something (especially tomato salad) while looking at this.

I can do nothing but to throw the damaged tomatoes away.

By the way, today was a quite hot day.

I am so tired because I planted more than 100 green onions today

I planted them in a ditch. I counted them, but I stopped counting at mid point, when number was 70.
Actually, still a lot of seedlings remains unplanted. What am I supposed to do with them?
Many flowers of hollyhocks are blooming in my garden now.
Though this flower looks like hollyhock, this is a rose of Sharon.

Since I am not so energetic these days, it took one week for me to plant seedlings of green onions. As they grow, I will gradually fill in the ditch. The trunks buried in the soil turn to be white. That white trunk is the main part to eat.

Don’t cut the Upper part of Onions when Harvesting them

If you cut the upper part of onions when you harvest them, you would find it difficult to hang them. It is necessary to hang them in order to keep them long.

Though nothing has to do with the title,

I don’t like artificial color for food.

Visited a Day-Service Facility for my Mother Today

I took my mother to a day service facility today. Actually, the place was the second one, I mean, last week we visited another day service facility. The purpose of visiting two places is to compare the two so that we can choose the better one. Before getting there at 2 p.m., we had a little late lunch in a Rahmen restaurant. Mine was Soy-sauce Rahmen with pork slice on top. My mother’s was a half Rahmen as the photo below. We visited the facility, got some guidance of the facility, looked around the rooms and the activity of the afternoon, and said good-bye to the people there. When we came back our home, I asked my mother which of the two day-service facilities she likes. She said that she had already forgot the facility we visited last week, so she couldn’t compare the two.

I have started saving up for my funeral expenses

Most of people in my neighborhood save up money for their own funeral expenses well before the last day in this world. There are two major funeral companies in this region, competing to get customers who could sign up such savings. Let me call them A and B. My father had paid for his own funeral to the company A, while he was still alive. After the funeral of my father, my mother started to pay monthly likewise. Her course was 36-Man’en(approximately 2,300USD), by paying 3000JPY every month, 120 times. She has already paid 70 times. Recently the company A said to me that they wanted to confirm her condition and to give her a birthday present. And today, one of their employees came to my home. I thought it was a good chance for me to start payment for my own funeral. Because I was satisfied with the service they provided in my father’s funeral, and it was a little nuisance that the company B made phone calls to me often.

I signed today the 24-Man’en course, which is way cheaper than my mother’s. I just thought my funeral would not cost so much because very few people will come to my funeral. My payment is 2000JPY, 120times. It continues ten years. I hope my funeral will happen after my payment has finished, but future is unknown. When it comes to predicting future, we Japanese think that “A devil will laugh at me”.