Lily in my garden

Lilies have blossomed in my garden this year too.  I got only 2 huge bulbs from somebody 2 years ago and they were planted without any expecting such tremendous wide opened flowers.
There are over 10 flowers on the stems. I picked up one of them to display it in my house before dieing.  The scent lasted all over for a few days.

Hot summer without air conditioner

We can not use air conditioners this summer as much as we used it as ever for energy saving.  We are facing at shortage of electricity this summer, probably not only this summer though, because there are no nuclear power plants in Fukushima and the alternative energy to cover our life in this hot summer has not been ready yet and it would take long time.
I decided not to use my air conditioners as much as possible, then we went ahead to a shop to buy awnings that block sun's rays.  Most of all sold out already and we couldn't prepare some mounting hardware.  People think same things.  Anyway, only one awning was fixed up at East side of our house.  I hope we could spend cooler summer by this effect. 

Painting

Today is muggy and very strong windy day, sunny though.  Such a shiny day is important for any work as it is rainy season here.  So I decided to paint the deck that the paint has come off.  It was really tough work and I was exhausted. I struggled it for 2 hours and half until lunch time.  The paint in the can was still remaining but there was no motivation to do all work any more.  I think I need to get another kind of brush to paint narrow space smoothly until next work.
Anyway today's painting will be dry out quickly in a wind.

New Light

A new light in our living room was installed in my house.  It is designed by EGLO in Austria which won the best design award.  4 halogen lights with wattage of 40 were included but in this age of energy saving we must use LED lights instead.  We bought them which are 6 watt LED and throw off the same as exsisting light of 60 watt astonishingly.
Then even as all lights in our house are still usable Ken has been changed to LED lights very eagerly.

Girls' day festival

March 3rd is Girls' festival day called "Hina Matsuri" that wishes are expressed for the future happiness of girls.
Kana's Dolls that they were my own dolls originally have been displayed.  There are enough time to have fun until March 3rd.  The "Hina" dolls must be put away as soon as you celebrate the day, otherwise you can not get married!!  Her dolls are many on a shelf with 4 row that actually Ken struggled to made with cardboard as the original case was glass and bulky to keep for a year.
Nowadays, only a prince and a  princess are displayed. They only need tiny space to put in a small house, sadly it's in tune with the times.