on Feb. 12, 2022

It's been a month since I wrote here last.

Last month when I tried to lift my futon,
I strained my back.

Ouch! I had a sharp pain.
I could not move for a while.

I called my daughter and asked her
to take me to an orthopedic surgeon.

I got an X-ray examination.
What a relief! No bones were broken!

But I have been suffering from a severe back pain
almost for a month.

Will the day come when this severe pain goes away?

on Jan. 12, 2022

Today I enjoyed English with three housewives
at the community center.

First, we enjoyed talking in Japanese.

Then we started to do an exercise in English grammar
---Adjective.　（形容詞）

Do you try some？

（　　）内の語句のうち、正しいものを選びなさい。

1.I have a ( few, little ) money with me now.
2.( Thousand, Thousands ) of people attended the funeral.
3.The ( lone, alone ) traveler kept walking day after day.
4.Every student was ( boring, bored ) with his speech.
5.I am ( convenient, glad ) to see you.


answers ( 1. little 2. Thousands 3. lone 4. bored 5. glad　)

We, four ladies, think studying English is very good
to stimulate our brain.

on Jan. 6, 2022

Oh, what a cold day!

Snowflakes were falling lightly,
when I was going to the supermarket this morning.

I reached out for some snowflakes.

I remembered my childhood in the snow district.

How excited I was to try to catch snowflakes!

I wish I could go back to my hometown,
a mountainous area which has a heavy snowfall.

I know it is very hard to live in the snow area
but I do love snow season.

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It is six days since New Year's Day.

How quickly time flies!

Did you enjoy your New Year's holidays?

I've been spending an ordinary daily life.

Oh, I miss my granddaughter, Koharu.

She went back to Sapporo on Jan. 3.

How have you been, Koharu?

I wish I were strong enough to visit you
in Sapporo!

Take care
and try your hardest,
dear koharu!

(written at 1:30 pm, today)

on Jan. 1, 2022

Happy New Year!

I hope you and your family are all fine
and are enjoying happy holidays.

This is the year of Tiger.

I hope Tiger will suppress the spread
of coronavirus.

The Omicron coronavirus is now raging
all over the world.

I'm afraid new variants （変異株） will be born
one after another.

What can we do?

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Yesterday I visited our local shrine 熊野宮.

I thanked for my peaceful days in 2021
and prayed for another peaceful year.

Peace on Earth,
Happiness to You All.

on Dec. 26, 2021

What a cold day!

My limbs are stiff with cold.

But my heart is filled with joy.

My granddaughter, Koharu, came home
from Sapporo yesterday, late at night.

She is a university student.

She is staying at home for a week or so.

Today I went to see her.

It is almost a year since I saw her last.

Do you know
how much I missed you?

Oh, I do love you, Koharu!

(koharu in 2005)