去年植えたバラのアーチに花がつきました
Roses are in bloom on the rose arch, which I put up last year.
初めてで誘引が上手く出来ずに残念です
One thing I regret is that I could not train rose vines well.
バラのダイスキなゴードンが天国からバラを楽しんでいるかもしれません
Our beloved Gordon who loved roses so much might be enjoying them from heaven.
2011年も、あと1日になりましたね
短いようで、長い1年でした
Only a day left till the end of 2011.
It was not only such a short year but also a long year.
Foxy母からのクリスマスプレゼントです
メガネケース兼スタンドです
サプライズでした
ある画家の方に描いていただいたそうです
This is the Christmas present from Foxy's mom.
It is a glasses case and stand.
It was such a surprise!
She asked an artist to draw Gordon on the case.
ゴードンの長いひげ、凛々しいお顔が見事に描かれていますよね
Gordon's long whiskers and gallant face are well drawn, aren't they?
皆様に良い年が訪れますように・・・
We wish you a good new year.
今晩家に帰ると・・・
When I came back home this evening...
Mom Bearからのケアパッケージが届いていました
Foxyのダイスキなものばかり、
チョコバーに、ドライチェリー、ポップターツにスキットルズ
いつもご心配いただきありがとうございます、Mom Bear
A care package from Mom Bear had arrived.
It contained lots of Foxy's favorites.
100 grand chocolate bars, bags of dried cherries, Pop Tarts, and Skittles.
Thank you for your concern as always, Mom Bear.
ゴードンがいなくなってからようやく1週間が経ちました
私達にとっては長い長い一週間でした
It has been a week since Gordon's demise.
Such a long, long week for us.
ジョナサンは眠って過ごす時間が多いようです
It seems that Johnathan spends quite a lot of time asleep.
たまにこんな風に考え込んでいます
ゴードンのことを考えているのかしら
He sometimes is thinking, like this.
He might be thinking of his brother, Gordon.
アレックスはゴードンに代わって、いつもMommyの側にいます。
まるでゴードンのミニ版
7月1日で、Alexは5歳になりました
Alex stays with Mommy for Gordon.
He is like Mini-Gordon.
He became 5 years old on July 1st.
「マミー、早く、早くおいでよ！」
"Mommy, come on!"
「お風呂はどう、マミー？」
"How is the bath, Mommy?"
アシュリーは、家の中をうろうろ
まるで、ゴードンをさがしているかのよう
Ashley walks around the house...
as if she is looking for Gordon to play.
ゴードンの愛し爪とぎに寄りかかって、一息
She leans on the scratcher Gordon loved and takes a rest.
皆様から、たくさんの心あたたかいお言葉をいただいております
皆様、ありがとうございます
We have been receiving lots of warm words.
Thank you so much, everyone.
A week has past, and a day.
Reason demands that we go on, and yet...we are not so to be.
No explanation has come as to what hand took life from our gentle Prince, and it seems that none is to come. Not plague nor weakness, not harm nor fear.
He was simply beset in a way that not even greatness could resist.
Bravely faced; his heart never failed until all else had been reduced.
He was my champion, as he was for Princess Foxy, and always will be.
Sweet, poetic Gordon. Gentle and shy in life, but always capable.
Our love goes with him, long after the honour guard has borne him to the stage.
Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,
The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act V, Scene 2.
2011年6月26日午後、長男の Luther Gordonが逝去しました
若すぎる死でした
Our first son, Luther Gordon, passed away afternoon on June 26, 2011.
He was too young to die.
Luther Gordonの思い出として、
As a memory of Luther Gordon
2004年のある夏の日、GordonはJohnathanと一緒にG家へやってきました
Gordon came to us with Johnathan in a hot day in the summer of 2004.
4色団子はGordonの一番のお気に入りのおもちゃでした
4-colored Dumplings was his most favorite toy.
ゴードンとジョナサンはいつでも一緒
Gordon and Johnathan had been together all the time, and will be.
「Mommy、お帰りなさい
僕、ずっと待ってたんだよ」
"Mommy, welcome home!
I have been waiting for you."
「Mommy, ここにいるの？」
"Mommy, are you here in this room?"
「入ってもいい、Mommy?」
"Can I come in, Mommy?"
たまには空を見上げて考えてみたり
Sometimes he looked into the sky and thought about something.
末っ子のAlexの面倒もよくみてくれました
He took good care of our littlest son, Alex.
たまにかくれんぼしてみたり
He played hide-an-seak sometimes.
おなかをなでなでしてもらう時間がダイスキでした。
He loved tum-tum time with mommy.
ゴードン、たくさんの思い出をありがとう
ダ〜イスキだよ
Thank you so much for good memories, Gordon.
We love you so much, Gordon.
Luther Gordon GARRETT
Chocolate-Syrup Kitty
2004.06.20-2011.06.26
最近のG邸でのヒット商品
こちら、ソープボトルです
Recent big hit at G residence
Here are soap bottles.
左はディッシュソープ用、右はハンドソープ用です
Left one is for dish detergent, right one for hand soap.
特にディッシュソープボトルはAlexにも気に入られています
なぜなら、しっぽが石鹸でべとべとしないから
Alexは蛇口から水を飲むのがダイスキ
前のソープボトルはポンプからソープが漏れて周りがベトベトになったため、
付近をウロウロするAlexの尻尾に石鹸がついてしまい、
尻尾がベトベトになってしまうことがあったのです
Especially, Alex likes the dish detergent bottle,
because his tail does not get sticky.
Alex loves to drink water from the faucet.
The soap bottle we used to use had soap leakage from the dispenser pump
and got sticky around it.
When Alex walked aound the soap bottle,
sometimes some got on Alex's tail and his tail got sticky.
こちらはFoxyのお気に入り
イギリスのバーレイ社のもの
キジの模様がとてもステキです
This one is Foxy's favorite.
This is from Burgess & Leigh in the UK.
Pheasant print is very pretty.
今朝、バラが開いていました
素敵なお色です
I found a rose blooming this morning.
The color is gorgeous.
先月クマ殿がお里帰りしてまいりました
Foxyは今回残念ながら、お留守番
なぜなら、この大震災の前に税務署の監査が5月末に行われることになっていたからです
震災で自宅勤務になってしまったり、社員が帰国してしまったりで、
7月以降に監査の日程を調整するそうです
USA行きたかったなぁ
Bear went to the USA last month.
Unfortunately, Foxy stayed at home this time.
That's because an tax audit of the company which Foxy is working for
had been replanned to the end of May before the great earthquake.
After the earthquake, we had to work from home for more than a week,
and some employees went back to their country,
so the tax audit will be arranged again after July.
I wish I could have gone with him...
Mom Bearからのプレゼント
A present from Mom Bear
カラフルなアイシングのクッキーです
『春』を感じます
Foxy momと一緒にいただきました
Thanks, Mom Bear!
These are colorful sugared cookies.
I feel "spring".
I had them with Foxy Mom.
春といえば、
念願のバラのアーチを作りました
Regarding "Spring".
I arranged a rose garden arch which I have wanted.
G邸は基本的にロールスクリーンのみです
なぜなら、外から見たときにすべて同じ色に統一したかったからです
ですが、ロールスクリーンをあげてしまうと内部が丸見え
道路からは奥まっていているので、それほど気になるわけではないのですが、
なにせゲストルームだけに目隠しを
ということでつるバラでアーチを作ることに
なかなか気に入ったデザインに出会うことができず一年が過ぎてしまっていました
We basically have only roll screens for all the windows.
Because I wanted to make every window look same
and same color from outside.
However when we open the screen, people can look through the window.
We have some setback distance from the street, so we do not mind so much.
Still, it is the room for guests.
That's why I decided to make a rose garden arch.
I have not been able to find the one I want and one year has passed.
デザインがお気に入り
I like the design a lot.
バラも元気に育っています
このつぼみは日に日にふくらんでいます
Roses are growing just fine.
This bud is getting bigger and bigger day by day.
植えたバラはシュネーバルツアー
This rose is called SchneeWalzer.
この庭でバラが咲くのが楽しみです
I'm looking forward to seeing the roses blooming in our garden.
ヴァレンタインデイはとっくに終わってしまいましたが、
我が家のValentine Boysのをご紹介いたしましょう
Valentine's Day is already over,
but...
Let me introduce G's Valentine Boys!!
長男のゴードンです
Our First son, Gordon
そして、次男のジョナサンであります
and the second son, Johnathan
とっても可愛くありませんか？
Aren't they so sweet?
G邸にも３年目にして、ようやくクリスマスツリー
のお目見えです
今年は職を失い、まだまだ先の見えない状態なので、
クリスマスリースを飾る気分でもなく
A Christmas tree arrived at G residence
for the 3rd Christmas in the new house.
I lost my job in October, and have not gotten any jobs yet,
so I have not felt like putting out a Christmas Wreath on the front door.
心優しいクマ殿からのプレゼント
です
クマ殿、ありがとう
This is the gift from the warm-hearted Bear.
Thank you, Bear
