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Autumn vegitable

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Hot summer season has gone and good season for grow vegetables has come. Yesterday, I bought seeds and seedlings. September is very good season to seed because comparing early summer time, there are a little warms so we can easly grow vegetables with leaves, so I bought 1) cabbage * 2) broccoli * 3) cauliflower * 4) spinach(ホウレンソウ) 5) komatsuna 6) field pea(莢豌豆) 7) Japanese radish 8) onion  ( *: which I bought seedling) As far as my last year's experience, bok choy(青梗菜) and No.2,5,6,7 is good. I usually plant onion seedling at november, but I found onion seeds so I'll try to seed them. Today, I plow the field about 2 hours and I got blisters on my hands ! It is also good season for eggplants ( in japan, autumn eggplant is synonymous with autumn delicious foods ). To get good autumn eggplant is to cut branchs at summer time. This is flowers of leeks(ニラ), it is similar with onion head. I sow them for the first time this season because I seeds them last ye

summer trip to shizuoka, Mt Fuji, etc

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We went back to my hometown shizuoka-city from 9 Fri. to 11 Sun. Before starting, I had a kidney stone and had a very hard ache from 5 to 8 night (at 9 morning, the kidney stone went out of my body), so we went back by shinkansen bullet train. My son liked it very much because it was the first time to ride this train for him. After arriving at shizuoka, my father and mother and my two cousins welcomed us at shizuoka-station, then ate lunch at shoan which my wife liked very much. I like kakiage-don which contained much pinkish shrimps Kakiage(tempura) but this day I orderd maguro-don(tsuna-don). At this shop, there were oden which was popular at shizuoka-city and I liked it very much, so I orderd them. Next day, we went to "mizube no rakkou" at ushizuma, where we went last summer. This place was opend at summer time and my son liked it very much. It also costed zero yen ! After that, we went to fujinomiya-city to watch shiraito falls and Mt. Fuji. W

Iga ueno city, Ninja museum

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We went to Iga-ueno city to see Ninja show. Recently, my son likes ninja, and he practice how to make syuriken by origami-paper at kindergarden and Iga-ueno is the place where I wanted to go, so we went there at 21 July. It was about 1.5 hour by car and we arrived there about 1 p.m. and ate lunch at okonomiyaki shop " Ito ". This shop is like normal house, and we make okonomiyaki by ourself and we order big size okonomiyaki and big size yakisoba and cost 1230 yen ($12) and tasted very good ! After eating, we went to NINJA MUSEUM of Igaryu . And inside this museum, there hold Ninja show (needed extra cost 300 yen per person) and the last show started at 3 p.m. so we safely watched the last show. This show was very good and after watching this show, my son tried syuriken.  After this show, we walked through this museum and there were tour-guide so they navigate us and telling the story of ninja's life.

The exhibition of Dinosaur and taisho ward walking

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Recently my son likes dinosaur because TV program for children is broadcasted every Sunday morning and he likes this program very much, so we went to the exhibition of dinosaur. This exhibition was held at Osaka-dome (baseball stadium) skyhall 9th floor and this day, idle event was held at same time, so many young women was gathered and very crowded around this stadium. This dinosaur's event was not so crowded but many families had came. After that, there were another moving dinosaur (t-rex) and my son was crying ... After enjoying this event, we drop to the shopping center next to this stadium and afterthat, we walked around taisho-station (osaka dome is located near taisho ward). This area is famous for okinawa shops and it is about 10 year interval before we visited this town . I like this town's atmosphere and it is next to the sea so there are ferryboat for commuting.

The Incredible Human Journey by Alice Roberts

In japan, we can see this book  at almost all the book shops, and this month, NHK is broadcasting this BBC TV series. I planed to see this first episode, but missed by  going outside, also missed rebroadcasting 2 days before, so checked the web and found this first episode. I think that this TV series is very intersting. The story is not special story, but it describes this kind of story very easily and very interstingly by using many wonderful video and CG. And furthermore, her storytelling is very good. And also her book is very good one, I think. As seen from amazon book review, amazon japan review is not good evaluation compaerd with amazon.com review, but my opinion is almos same as the latter. Maybe in japan, the book publisher and broadcaster (NHK) is closely related (like this special site ), but such good scientific series might be good for young people, also for middle aged people like me.

hotaru watching at Uji-city

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We went to Uji at Kyoto-prefecture to watch hotaru(firefly) at Uji city park.  (Jun. 15 sat). Last year, we went to watch hotaru near our home, but this place was damaged by last year's heavy rain, so I was searching another hotaru-watching places by internet and finally I found this place. Uji-city is located next to kyoto-city, and it is near my home (about 30 min by train or 1 hour by car) and it hosts world heritage " byoudou-in " and other good temples. I like this place because there is a uji-river and scenary around this river is very beautiful. At first, we went to tea-shop " uji iemon " at 1:30 pm. This day, weather was very bad (heavy rain) but it was very crowded so we had to wait about 1 hour to enter shop! Maybe one of the reason why might be that this day (15 Jun) was the first day of uji-river cormorant fishing. After finish eating, we went to uji city-park. This park always ended about 5 pm, but this 3 weeks was speci