I haven't posted any entries in this blog for some time and it is not because I have been busy with any other things but because I couldn't find any topics to post.
Yesterday I found a BlogPet for Bloggers and I put it in this blog today. If you click the cat or the computer, it says something. Very interesting.
By the way, in Japan it is cherry-blossoms season now. We can see them here and there. It was warm today and I walked around the fields. Had a very good time.
As you notice, I found a little cute blog pet "Maukie" and added it on top of this site.Very cute, isn't it? If you put your mouse near "Maukie", it moves its paws or tail variously and it is also very cute. I like it very much.
It is said Maukie's home is
here. If you like, please visit it.
My not knowing, new year came and more than a score of days have already passed. I posted last entry in this blog last November and about two months have passed.
I think it was very cold last week but today it moderates a little. But now it is raining.
News says that east Canada and north-eastern America were hit by heavy snowstorm and the snow lies 38 inches deep in cities north and south of Boston. The snowstorms is said to be among the fifth heaviest in the past century.
It is depressed to think that we might be troubled by freak weather this year again.
I hope this year will be a good one for me and others.
It was very fine and enough warm to make us slightly sweaty today. Few clouds were seen in the sky. Indian summer, isn't it?
I went to the Japanese traditional art festival. Some played the taisho-goto and some shamisen(a kind of guitar) and some danced japanese traditional dance. Some chorus groups also took part in it and I sang some songs as a member of one of the chorus groups.
I like singing songs but recently I haven't sung with others, so it might be good for me to take part in such a festival, I suppose.
Next year OBs of the university glee club will go to United States for the joint concert with OBs of A University Glee Club but to my regret I will probably not join. Because I have something to do next year.
Drawing near to the Christmas, I'd like to make some midi files of christmas songs. But now no time to do so. If you like, please listen to some files I made last year.
Recitation and Midi
It is extremely fine day today. Few clouds in the sky and little wind, though a little chilly.
There are a lot of dry grass in the yard and field and there are also some branches which I cut before. Though I thought I would gather and burn them today, I couldn't do. If it is fine tomorrow, I'll do that.
When the weather is fine, my feeling is also fine. I hope it lasted such a fine weather.
Yesterday it rained a little heavily but today is fine, though we can still see a lot of clouds in the sky.
I wrote about "St. Luke's summer" at the last entry, but I also learned a phrase "St. Martin summer". We call Indian summer "koharubiyori" in Japanese and it means "the warm days like summer (though "haru" means spring in Japanese) in early winter (shoto), which is November.
Looking into the dictionary, I learned that "St. Luke's summer" means "In English folklore, a period of fine, calm weather, similar to Indian summer, occurring in October." and "St. Martin's summer" is "In English folklore, a period of fine, calm weather, similar to an Indian summer, occurring in November."
Taking these into consideration, "koharubiyori" is the most similar to "St. Martin's summer", I think.
By the way St. Martin's Day is November 11 and the same day as Veterans Day, isn't it?.
It is fine day today. No cloud in the sky and it's warm. I feel like going driving somewhere far away but I have no time to do so. They call such a fine day Indian summer, I suppose.
Now I must clean the ditches around the house which are filled with lots of dry grass because of the typhoon. It is a little hard work for me but unavoidable.
By the way I found the phrase "St. Luke summer". I wonder if it is the same meaning as Indian summer.
