Planting flower seedlings

　　In last Friday midnight, my daughter had come home. She intended to cheer for  the Hita high baseball team. The National High School Baseball Championship Tournament Oita prefectural competition started on last Saturday. Hita high school team had participated on the first day.
  My daughter went to see the game. She said it was a tight match against Maizuru high school. Regrettably Hita was defeated after extra innings.
　   I was glad to have the opportunity to chat with her. She talked about her college life. She uses the washing machine at 11 p.m. though she feels guilt, because her power contract charges less fee from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Almost all the residents of her apartment house are college students who awake till late in the night. She has hard time in mathematics class. Whether she can resolve the problem or not she smiles so the teacher admits her smile. She has selected French for second foreign language, it is difficult to remember the spelling, her teacher gives them home work via his Facebook, so they need to have their Facebook account. I don’t know it is common in these days.
  　  My daughter went back Saga on the next day. It was raining heavily. I was anxious about the road condition. Eventually no news was good news.
 
  　  On last Sunday, my neighborhood have done an annual work. We care the flowers on the roadside walls. We replaced the flowers. About thirty people included elementary school children worked together.
 　 Honestly I wondered if we would do as planned, because it rained. I called the president and vise president, but both men didn’t answer the phone.  I thought they had left home already and I also left home with wearing a raincoat. When I reached there, people had started working already. They put on raincoat.
  　We pulled out and replaced the flower seedling and pour new nursery soil.
  　There were tens of flower seedlings left. We shared those flowers for each neighbor. I took about twenty flower seedlings and planted them in my neighbor’s open area.  After I planted half of them, my next door man came to help me. I hope them bloom neatly.

  先週の金曜の夜中、娘が帰って来た。日田高の野球部の応援に。全国高校野球選手権大分県予選が土曜日に始まった。日田高は初日に出場した。
　娘は試合を見に行った。舞鶴高校と対戦して延長戦で破れる接戦だったと言っていた。
　娘と話す機会ができてうれしかった。学生生活のことを話した。悪いなあと思いながら夜１１時に洗濯機を回しているそうだ。電気料金の契約で夜１１時から朝７時まで安いから。アパートの住人はほとんどが学生でみんなまだ遅くまで起きてるとか。数学の授業が難しいらしい。問題が解けても解けなくてもとにかくスマイルで、先生もスマイルはよしと言ってくれるそうだ。第２外国語はフランス語を選択したのだけど、つづりが難しいそうだ。先生はFacebookから宿題を出すのでみんなFacebookのアカウントをもたなくてはならない。それって近頃はふつうのことなのだろうか？
　娘は翌日佐賀に帰っていった。雨が激しかったので道路状況が心配だった。結局知らせがなかったのがよい知らせだろう。

　先週の日曜日は地元自治会の恒例行事があった。道路脇の壁面の花を世話している。その花の植え替えをした。小学生も含め３０人くらいで一緒に作業した。
　正直なところ、雨が降っていたので予定通りあるのか心配だった。会長宅と副会長宅に電話してみたけれどどちらも出ない。ということはもう出られたのだろうと思い、かっぱを着て出かけた。着いたときはもう作業が始まっていた。かっぱを着ていた。
　前のを取り除いて花の苗を植え替え、新しい培養土を入れた。
　何十かの苗が余ったのでそれぞれの地区でわけた。私は２０ほどもらってうちの近所の緑地に植えた。半分ほど植えたところで隣の方が来て手伝ってくれた。きれいに咲くといいなあ。

7 July 2014