winter – Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning

Have just started “Winter Feeding” for wild birds around

I think that wild birds like sparrows will have a hard time in winter because it is difficult for them to find food in cold and usually snow-covered season. When winter comes, I usually give them food every morning in order to avoid their starvation. Recently I bought two packages of feed that are several kinds of seeds from amazon.

I put one cup of feed onto the feeding table as in the photo, but birds hadn’t come today. I guess they will find it and come to eat in a few days.

Photos in Campus, they were taken in 2019

I am a little busy tonight. The campus where I used to be is very far from here. Not only the distance, I feel that being there was a thing of long time ago in my memory.

It seems I had eaten a lot for lunches. Probably I was energetic and working hard at that time, because I was six years younger than what I am now.

Roofs and the Ground were covered with White Snow in the Morning

When I got up in the morning today, I saw that roofs of houses and the ground were white. I wanted to take pictures those snow-covered sceneries, but I just forgot to do that. Since the sun shone, most of snow had melted until noon.

I went shopping in the afternoon, but I took de-tour a little bit. I wanted to take a picture of “Gozu Mountains”. The mountains are not so high, their peaks are lower than 1000 meters. But the mountains got snow by the cold wave that came yesterday.

Unfortunately, Mountains are hidden by clouds.

I found two ducks in front of a fruits shop on the river bank

It seems that they are friends, or more.

A local train was crossing the river

What I bought in a supermarket today

Gas Heater is turned on in my room now.

This post shows you only two photos that were taken one year ago

Today, weather was not good. I have been in my home, doing room makeover so that I can spend coming winter in a little more comfortable room. My house was built 25 years ago or so. It’s still not so old, but built by traditional building method of Japan, it is so cold in winter. In fact, my heels of both feet have already cracked and become chaps although it is still November. So far, I have slept every night in a room without air-conditioner, but I am thinking about sleeping in another room during coming winter. The room has an air-conditioner and a gas heater. Actually, the room is currently my office. Since I won’t change my office, I will do my computer work and sleep in the same room. This is a temporary measure, when spring comes, I will probably change room again. Anyway, the makeover has not finished yet. Now the room is dirty because so many things are on the floor. I need to continue the remaining works tomorrow.