今後、Persimmon Grove を目指したい

　２０年ほど熱が出たことがなかったので体温計を使おうと思ったら壊れてました。このため、昨日は隣に住む看護師さん宅で体温計を借り彼女の家で測ったら３６．５°と分かり、私の風邪もどうやら下火になったようです。しかし、未だ、夜中に咳が出ます。体温計を借りたお礼に彼女に「枇杷」を捥いで差し上げました。

　実は、私は今まで、花桃やシャクナゲなど「花が咲く樹木」のみ育てており、果物の木にあまり興味がありませんでした。しかし、庭に柿や金柑、そして枇杷が生って、それを捥いで食べることほど楽しいことはありません。しかも、タダです。先日、山形県の甥から贈られてきた「サクランボ」がすごく美味しく感じたので、今度は「サクランボ」の苗を植えることにしました。

　医師によっては、果物は糖分があるので糖尿の関係から好ましくない食べ物と考える人もいますが、高齢期になった今、私が考えることは、年齢を重ねてからは「いろんな楽しみを持つことが生きる張り合いになる」と悟ってます。要は量の問題ですから食べ過ぎないで、季節の果物を味わう程度なら、却って健康的と考えます。

　柿の木は３本あり、品種はそれぞれ異なります。近未来は３本とも生るので一人では食べ切れません。捥ぎにいらして下さい。３本とも私カッキーと違い、「渋柿」ではありません。

Dear my Facebook friends abroad

　I haven't suffered from a fever in about 20 years, so I tried to use a thermometer, but it was broken. Because of this, I borrowed a thermometer from the nurse's house next door and measured my temperature at her entrance, as a result, it came out to 36.5°, so it seems that my cold has subsided. However, I still have a cough in the middle of the night. As a thank her for borrowing the thermometer, I picked some loquats and presented to her.

　Actually, so far, I only raised flowering trees such as peach blossoms and rhododendrons, so that I have never been interested in fruit trees. However, there is nothing more fun than picking and eating persimmons, kumquats, and loquats in my garden. And it's free. The other day, I received some cherries from my nephew in Yamagata Prefecture, and the taste was so good that I decided to plant some cherry seedlings from now on.

　Not change the subject, but some doctors consider fruits to be undesirable foods because of their sugar content and the relationship with diabetes. Now I'm in my senior years, I realize that as we get older, having a variety of fun things gives us a reason to live. It's a matter of quantity, so I think it's actually healthy to not eat too much and just enjoy the taste of seasonal fruit.

　In fact, I have three persimmon trees with different varieties. All three will bear fruit in the near future, so I wouldn't be able to eat them all by myself. Please come and pick them for you and for your sweetheart. Unlike me, none of the three persimmons are "astringent."

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