新米, rice harvested in our country, early summer or autumn of current year began to appear on store shelves. Mei-Shun waited for her pet does online, ordered and immediately cooked. However, a bit different aroma filled her mouth. Shin has the same impression, whose best food is also this main staple. Well, agricultural products all depend on climate, ever change.
We have 立冬=ritto, the first of winter 二十四節気 today. Well, do you kind 528 followers feel it? When Mikan-chan and Mei-Shun got on Ms. Scarlet, her indoor temperature was amazing 28 degrees Celsius. Such warm sunshine, clear sky during daytime give radiative cooling onto avenue trees in Tsukuba. Above driver must be patient, keeping her eyes ahead.
Shin noticed lovely dahlia in our garden. He recently started walking to the nearest station around 6 : 30, makes friends with stray cats, trees changing coats and little flowers. That gives Mei-Shun precious 30 minutes — available for reading a paper, cleaning, washing the clothes, preparation for horsey riding, etc. However, he left a jacket at office, feeling a bit cold at 18 : 30.
We have 霜降=soko, the 6th and last of autumnal 二十四節気 today. It really does — Mei-Shun asked Mr. Air Conditioner to warm rooms. She heard a weather forecaster talk about fragrant olives, who began to let our noses identify them just from Monday. He said that it is getting later and later, year by year caused by longer summer. Well, above machine worked as cooler 10 days before.
Well, would you appear in such cloudy sky tonight, 仲秋の名月? Missing 十三夜 and 小望月 on weekend, Mei-Shun wished the most beautiful 十五夜. However, Typhoon Halong moves too slowly; born around far-southern Tokyo islands 小笠原, it almost walks on Pacific Ocean toward west. Getting bigger and stronger, it pours a lot of nimbus onto Kanto region.
So we are at the end of solar September. As Mei-Shun mentioned before, our country seems to experience 5 seasons an year instead of 4 these days. Well, cicadas were heard sing yesterday, while no chorus today. She felt weird between clavicles, much better right now. And hello, baby gecko, welcome to bedroom of Shin and his wife for the first time. Do little ants living on Mademoiselle Vert still feed you?
Here Shin kindly sent Mei-Shun photos taken in Canada: one of them is a supermarket accommodating a 楓 tree. It resembles Japanese breed planted along a street in Tsukuba. We are still in late summer, see almost no change among leaves there. On the other paw of Mikan-chan, North American temperature is already several degrees Celsius lower than ours.
We are expecting a full moon, called Harvest Moon tonight. As Mei-Shun mentioned 2 months before, various beauty in night sky should have been enjoyed from last Thursday. A slight, much awaited rainfall covered 十三夜; 小望月 followed around midnight, after Typhoon Peipah had gone; 十五夜 appeared among thin clouds, making 朧月; 十六夜 was so clear that above wife rushed toward Shin.
Mei-Shun might hear drops fall from last night sky. However, her sandals on a verandah floor were safely dry this morning. Roofs of Mss. Scarlet and Moon as well, while looked a bit dusty. Which made it, dew or drizzle? She anyway got on the former heading Tsukuba horsey riding club, accompanied by Mikan-chan, let them know lesson cancellation again. We really miss you to dance, Mr. Marumorita.
Lunar July started from Saturday. Mei-Shun meant to visit the nearest shrine, yet hard weather prevented her from it — heat rashes appeared on her upper body here and there, after she enjoyed dancing with Mr. Marumorita on Friday. They were exacerbated by artificial cloth used at a hair salon, made her give up above plan. According to Dr. K, we have 5 seasons instead of 4, including current “severest summer”.
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