From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

I knew her song when reading this blog  in 2007. I like her sorrowful song. I don't know much about fad but music rooted on traditional sounds like fad is good. I had gone to Portugal once, walking around Lisbon. I didn't go to music pub of fad but I remenbered the memory of Portugal in 1991.  We always listen popular music and it sounds similar, Japanese songs, USA songs. Hearing such songs, I feel freshness and sometimes I was deeply moved.

This week ,   we can see Mars very closely so I and my son watched Mars. From this picture, it is like dot. But as seeing from our naked eyes, it looked big,bright brown color. I was very surprised to see this largeness of star. My son also liked this star. I also used tablet app "Star map" to find Mars. It is very useful because we move my tablet towards stars and this app indicates a name of this star. When I was a child, I used a real star map on a circuit plate. Ciuruiting map by date, time, I can find which stars was found in certain direction. Both is good tools for science lovers.

I like books very much so I often go to book shops because. I like good books and I think that good books indicates standard level of this country's cultual level. And recently I sometimes feel sad because there are many books which lectures good usage of brains, how to do things efficiently. When I saw this book the day before yesterday, I felt she was crazy. Of course, freedom of speech is basic right but I felt very sad to see these kind of books. Maybe such person was taught high perfomance of brain is most important value of life. If there are such kinds of books in book shops, Japan might be over.

Recently , I'v started using electric money with smartphone.(not bitcoin) Smartphone contains IC chip called felica and now I'm using Edy which handles electric money. I charged money at convenience stores because there are a little charging machine near here. Electric money is convinient because we don't have to pull coins from our wallet, but some stores don't deal with electric money (ex. 100yen shops, etc) so afterall I have to bring wallet anytime. But it is good ! Recently, I can find service which uses felica at golf driving range. When I charged smartphone at entrance tab, it automatically charges points. If I gain some amount of points, I can get golf griving range's card. It is unique service. It is one of examples to use IT in a fantastic way.

Today , we harvested broad beans with son and his grandfather. As my memo , I bought broad bean's seeds on last Nov. which was about 200 yen (2$) and now these are like that (below photo) In winter time, soy bean and green peas are very good vegetables because there are several vegetables grown in winter time. But winter time is good because there are seledom warms so we don't care about them.  I challenged planting green soybeans in summer time but protecting them from warms is very difficult for me so finally gave it up ! And recent green pea taste very delicious. We like both of them very much.

Today , we harvested broad beans with son and his grandfather. As my memo , I bought broad bean's seeds on last Nov. which was about 200 yen (2$) and now these are like that (below photo) In winter time, soy bean and green peas are very good vegetables because there are several vegetables grown in winter time. But winter time is good because there are seledom warms so we don't care about them.  I challenged planting green soybeans in summer time but protecting them from warms is very difficult for me so finally gave it up ! And recent green pea taste very delicious. We like both of them very much.

I'm sometimes surprised to know that my son's life is not so diffrent from my life at his age. Today, he showed me colorful kneaded eraser saying it is popular at his class. It is same with me at age 8-9 years old. And last week, he showed me chewing gum with clip and if I pulled out one chewing gum plate, wired spling chached my finger in the chewing gum plate. It was also popular toy 40 years ago. He also likes cartoon of doraemon, kochi-kame, which was popular when I was junior school. He used tablet PC, playing hobby drone, but he is same as me of 40 years ago. Children's nature might not be changed at any age.