Ayako Haruna and I worked cleaning Shimizu's house in Sapporo.

I went with Ayako to Sapporo to clean Shimizu's rooms in the condominium. Haruna came to help us. Ayako and I first visited Mr.Shimizu in the care house Dy Grunen in the suburbs of Sapporo, then went to Higashi Sapporo, where Shimizus' condominium. We went into the room and we began to bunndle papers and booklets. And we opened every drawer and cabinets, and too out things contained there. After Haruna arrived, we ate food for lunch we had bought in the supermarket just close. It was after 3:30 when we stopped working. We carried papers and clothes to dispose of in Tomakomai. We arrived back home at around 5:00.

Marie and Haruna came.

  The strong wind blowing through the night died down in the morning. Earlier than usual, I left home at about 8:00 on my usual walk. In Kawazoe minipark, I gathered many chestnuts and along the walking path on the way back, picked some edible fungi.
  Haruna took Marie, her daughter, by car, because Marie got a job in Tokyo and was going there in a few days.

A very windy day today.

  It was cloudy with strong wind today. I left home for a walk in the morning, but returned from the Tomakomai river because of the strong wind, so I walked only half the distance I usually walk.
  In the Japan series second game, Fighters was defeated again by Giants. It was a very close game, and the pitchers of both teams, Takeda of Fighters, and Sawamura of Giants pitched very well, but in the 1st inning, Takeda allowed a homerun by Chono, the first batter of Giants, and after all, the result was Giants's victory by 1-0.     

Japan series - the first game in Tokyo dome

  Japan series is now under way. I had been looking forward to seeing the game since morning. But it was such a pity that Fighters was defeated by Giants by 1-8. Utsumi, Giants' ace pitcher, pitched very well, while Yoshikawa allowed Boker, Giants' slugger from America a three run homerun in the 5th inning, and was knocked out.
  The weather was very good and I walked in the morning.

Ayako went to a party of her ceramic art class.

  A new Windows 8 was released. I don't know how different it is from Windows 7, and I am now not interested in it, because to use it, we will have to buy a new p.c. I cannot afford to buy a new p.c.
  I walked in the morning as usual, and collected, on the way, some chestnuts in Kawazoe riverside minipark. After coming home, I watched world series game between Detroit Tigers and Los Angels Giants, and Giants won by 2-0, which was the second win in a row.
  In the evening, Ayako went to a party with her classmates in her ceramic art class. She returned home at about 9:00, saying she had a good time with her "classmates".

Japan Baseball League Draft was held today.

2012 Japan Professional Baseball League Draft meeting was held today. In the first pick, Nippon Ham picked Ohtani the ace pitcher of  Hanamaki Higashi High School, Iwate prefecture in the first round. Ohtani pitches fast balls over 160 km/h, the fastest of all Japanese pitchers in history including professional players. But Ohtani had announced previously that he wanted to play in U.S.Major League. I hope he will play for Nippon Ham first, and after he has succeeded in Japan, then will go to the Major. Other pitchers Nippon Ham picked were Kagiya, Chuo Unv., Aragaki, Yagi, and Kohno. And as infielders, Morimoto from Takaoka Daiich High School and Usami from Hiroshima ogyo High School.

Enjoyed park golf

 Today I walked toward Kawazoe cho as usual a little earlier than usual. After returning home, I cleaned my garden.      In  the afternoon, I went to the park golf course with Ayako to enjoy playing park golf.  Ayako played well, but I      didn't. The autumn colors of leaves were beautiful.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

A stormy weather.

  It was so rainy and windy in the morning that I couldn't go out. But in the afternoon, it stopped raining, and I walked, as usual, as far as Kawazoe. Yesterday, I sent an email to Tomoko, my junior high school day classmate, and received her answer. She is suffering from an uncurable lung desease, and is on a ventilator. She said it was her 76th birthday, which I didn't know. She said her fingertips were numb, and so it took much time to tap the key.  Anyway, I was glad she was surrounded by her family and celebrated her birthday.

NHK, toast to the family - Tsurube and Kawato visited Tomakomai

  Today, in the morning, I went with Ayako to Kintaro no Sawa park to walk. We walked around the lake twice and then, I went into the woods. While walking along, I saw a lot of footsteps of wild deer. These days, the number of wild deer are rapidly increasing, as a result, agricultural farms and fields are damaged and sometimes cars and trains crashed them.
  In the evening, we watched an NHK program titled "Tsurube's Kazoku ni kanpai" (Toast to families!) in which a famous comedian Turube visited Tomakomai with a well-known former baseball star Kawato of Hanshin Tigers.

I'm afraid I've got senile, because....

  I had forgotten to go to the minipark. It was a cleanup day of the neigborhood today, and last night, before going to bed, I had assured myself not to forget about it, but I forgot. I stayed at home all morning, because I didn't want to see anyone in the neiborhood and be asked why I didn't come and work with them. Late in the afternoon, I went out for a walk, and went as far as awazoe minipark and collected some chestnuts there. 

Ayako went to Sapporo to atten her class reunion.

  I dropped off Ayako at Tomakomai station by car in the morning. Ayako went to Sapporo by bus to attend the reunion of her old classmates in her college. After she returned home, she said she had a good time eating and talking with each other at the party where nine people attended.
  I walked in the evening to Kawazoe minipark where I collected some chestnuts, and on the way back, bought boxed sushi for dinner.
 

Fighters

 In the third game of the final round of the post season games, Fighters won. It was the third win over Hawks in a row, and so-called "sweep"and they advanced to Japan Series. On the other hand, in the Central league post-off games, Nagoya Chunichi Dragons won three games over Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, and if Dragons win another game tomorrow, they will advance to Japan Series and will play with Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.

Itoi hit a decisive 2 run homerun again.

Itoi, a slugger of Fighters, hit a two run homer in the 7th inning today, again. He hit a two run homer in the yesterday's game in the 7th inning. Hokkaido Nippon Ham won two successive games over Fukuoka, and another win will make the team advance to Japan series. On the other hand, in the Central league, this season's champion team, Tokyo Giants was defeated by Nagoya Chunich Dragons again.    

Fighters won over Haws by 3-2 - the climax series.

  In the first game of the Pacific League Climax Series final round, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters defeated Fukuoka Soft Bank Hawks by the score of 2-1. The winning pitcher was Yoshikawa. In the top of the 7th inning, Fighters allowed 2 runs for Hawks, but in the bottom of the inning, Itoi hit a two-run home run, and pinch hitter Nioka hit a timely hit and Fighters came from behind. If Fighters win two more games, they will advance to the Japan Series. In the Central league, Nagoya Chunichi Dragons won over Tokyo Ymiuri Giants by 3-1.
  It was mostly cloudy with scattered rain. I went out for a walk in the morning.
 

Haruna came in the morning and I went with Ayako to Sapporo.

  In the morning, I walked as far as the Tomakomai river. When I returned, Haruna had come from Sapporo. Haruna seemed to be busy because her youngest daughter' preparations for entrance to high school next spring. Her daughter,Minori, has a epilepsy. Haruna had lunch with us, and returned to Sapporo. We presented her some products such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins in in our field in Furusato Noen.
  When Haruna left we, also, followed by our car, because we had something to talk urgently with Mr.Shimizu. We followed on the highway and departed from her red car at the exit at Kitahiroshima, and arrived at Kisakuen, the institute where Emiko, Ayako's sister, was.  We saw Emiko, who was sleeping, and didn't recognize us, and then, we went to another care house, Die Grunen, where Mr.Shimizu, Emiko's hunband, was. We talked with Mr.Shimizu and was on the way back home. When we arrived home it was already after dark.  

I found a lot of edible fungi growing in my garden.

  In the morning, I walked as far as Kawazoe park. On the way, I found some little mushrooms. But when I returned and got into my garden, I found a lot of edible fungi called "boribori" or "naratake" growing at a corner of the garden.

1-1 tie, baseball post-season climax series.

  I walked as far as Kawazoe. Alot of chestnuts fell, but someone had already collected them. In the Major League baseball, Yankees was defeated by Detroit Tigers in an extra-inning game. Ichiro hit a home run in the 9th inning. In Japanese leagues, Seibu and Yault won and, the result of the series became one-one ties with Soft Bank and Chunichi.  

Enjoyed park golf in the sunny autumn morning.

 It was a sunny autumn day, though it was a little too early to see autumn color of leaves. In the morning, I went to a park golf course near our house with Ayako, and enjoyed playing it whole morning. It was for the first time in the past five months.
 The climax series of Japanese professional baseball begun today. In the first games of both the Pacific and the Central leagues, Fukuoka Soft Bank and Nagoya Chunichi Dragons won over Saitama Seibu Lions and Tokyo Yakult Swallows respectively. If Soft Band and Chunichi won another game, They will advance to the final series against Hoaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Tokyo Giants. 

The storm has passed.

  The storm has passed and it was fine without strong wind all day. In the morning, I watched a game of Major League base ball between New York Yanees and Baltimore Orioles in the morning, and Baltimore won the game by 3-2 in extra ining game.
  In the afternoon, I walked as far as the Tomakomai river.

A wild storm with a wind speed of 23 m/s.

  It was a very nasty weather - a storm with a wind verocity of 23 meters per second. I stayed at home all day watching US Major League baseball game on TV. The game was a post season game between New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles. It was a very good close game and the result was Yankees' victory by 3-1. Kuroda started for Yankees and allowed 2 runs, but pitched well till the 8 innings and 1/3.
  The Nobel prize in literature was awarded to a Chinese novelist, Mr.Mo Iyen, contrary to most people's expectation that Mr.Haruki Murakami, a world popular Japanese writer. 

  Hot summer has passed away and cold autumn has come. The lowest temperature in the morning is below ten. Today I cleared the garden. I cut the stems of tall sunflowers, and cleared the small field at the corner of my garden. The flowers of cosmoses are withering. Chrysanthems are blooming beautifully.
  The pennant races of the Japan professional leagues ended yesterday. We are happy that the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters became the champion of the Pacific League.

Dr.Yamanaka of Kyoto Univ. was awarded to Nobel prize.

  As expected, Dr.Shinya Yamanaka was announced to be awarded to 2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. The following is from the article on Asahi Shinbun:
  "Shinya Yamanaka, who developed induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with a British scientist, the Swedish Karolinska Institute announced Monday.
  Yamanaka, 50, won the prize for developing and establishing reprograming technology that can revert somatic cells to their undifferentiated, or embryonic, state.
  The British scientist, Sir John Gurdon, 79, is known for successfully cloning frogs in 1962."
  Dr.Yamanaka is the 19th Japanese Nobel laureate.

I went to Furusato Noen to harvest sweet potatoes.

  I went to Furusato Noen with Ayako to dig sweet potatoes. We were happy to harvest good big sweet potatoes and peanutts. After returning home, we ate the sweet potatoes and the peanuts for lunch.
  I received an email from Ilsemarie in Germany.
  In the afternoon, I watched the final game of All Hokkaido High School Baseball Autumn Championship Tournament between Komadai Tomakomai and Otaru Hokusho. The result was Otaru's victory by the score of 7-5. Otaru Hokusei will be invited to Koshien Senbatsu Tournament next March.

I went to the municipal incinerator.

In the morning, Ayako and I went to the municipal incinerator by car to throw away the unnecessary old papers we had carried from Shimizu's office. It was for the first time for us to get into the incinerator, but we could ask at the reception how we could get into it. We went up the slope by car, the door opened automatically, pushed No.1 button as we were indicated, then the big incinerator appeared in front of us. I threw the corrugated boxes which contained the old papers into the incinerator. 

Today, again, we had to go to Sapporo.

  First, we thought we would send Masanobu to Chitose air port by car, but for some urgent reason, we came to have to go to Sapporo again to talk with Mr.Shimizu. We drove to Die Grunen, the facility where Mr.Shimizu was, and talked the matter, and went back to Chitose airport to send Masanobu off. We had lunch at a restaurant in the airport builing, said goodby to him and Ayao and I were on the way home. On the way, it was raining very heavily, but arriving home, it wasn't raining at all. We were very tired at home.

I went to Sapporo with Ayako and Masanobu.

  I went to Sapporo with Ayako and Masanobu.

Seibu Lions was defeated and Nippon Ham won the 2012 Pacific League Champion.

  Yesterday became a big day for pro baseball Hokaido Nippon Ham Fighters.

Ayako and Masanobu, Ayao's brother, went to Sapporo.

  Masanobu, Ayao's brother, came and stayed with us last night, and he went to Sapporo with Ayako. He came to Hokaido to help Shimizus who are both over 80 years old and are in care houses in Sapporo. They returned home at about 4:00, bringing many documents from Shimizu's apartment house and sorted the papers from what were neccessary to what were unneccessary. After finishing the task, we went to the restaurant "Tsubo Hachi" and had dinner. 

An evaluation meeting? No, a drinking party.

This evening, we are going to have a party of the neigborhood association. We call it "Hansei Kai" in Japanese or an evaluation meeting, but it is just a drinking party to reward each staff member's service so far.