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.

Gathering of clams

Clamming season has come since spring, but we didn't have chance to get there for any reasons for recent few months.  Last weekend that was low tide around 11 A.M. was the best day to dig clams at Hakkeijima Marine park. It was not much sun lays at least before starting digging them, and then I didn't wear sunscreen well.  An hour later, Ken was enjoying windsurfing in the same beach where he comes every weekends for it, and I was digging clams with Kana who couldn't be there alone and feeling getting sunburned.
There were a lot of clams you can find them easily there, but most of all were tiny size and we had difficulty for long time in search of big clams that we can see at fish shops.
Hence, today's dinner soup was the clam miso soup!!  That was really delicious and we paid off in the end.

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.

Haneda Airport

It's nice place to go to Haneda airport.  That's not far distance to drive and you can feel something exciting atmosphere.  Kana also loves to go there and have a lunch at the food court in terminal 2 which has many different kinds of designed chair, especially at the Indian restaurant to be able to eat naan.  We had curry lunch and had some rest by sitting Kana's favorite sofa that is fanciful but very cozy to sit down or lay down on it, small children might clamber onto the top of it like Kan did so.

Le Soleil

It was like nice early summer in the morning, rainy season though.  We visited "Soreiyu no Oka" which the south of France is used as a motif in Yokosuka.

The park is located on hill and along the sea. So it's always windy.  We were not wearing long sleave shirts to prevent strong wind.  You should take any cloths to put on with you, if you go there.

Kana had fun with sleighing on the lawn and tomato picking in the plastic greenhouse.  She picked 4 kinds of tomatos in a basket and the fee was only 170 yen based on the weight of them.  After that she ate one of them with nice smile. If we could go there 2 months erlyer, we could have enjoyed strawberry picking too.

Disaster area Iwaki in Fukushima

I got my home town Iwaki city last weekend to see my parents.  The house of my parents is fine, but sea side area where  it takes 20 minutes by car from their house has been damaged seriously by the terrible earthquake and the tsunami on March 11th, although over 2 months have passed.  It seems to take very long time to reconstruct all. And Fukushima has still big problem.  The problem of nuclear power plant is still ongoing.  It's annoying  matter for my parents.  When is that settled?