今日８月１１日は「山の日」です。実は私の周囲には親しかった２名の登山家がいました。その一人は「日本１００名山」をすべて登った方です。しかし、２名とも近年この世を去りました。このため、最近は熊の出没もあることから今後一人での登山は控えるつもりです。
若き日から近年まで、私の家から見える群馬県の山のうち浅間山、武尊山、谷川岳を初めとして、平標山、榛名山の峰々、赤城山の峰々、四阿山、東西の御荷鉾山、尾瀬至仏山など、県外では乗鞍岳山頂を登ったことはどれも記憶によく残ってます。私の家から見える中でも、２０代に３回登った浅間山山頂から見た広大な関東平野の感銘は生涯忘れないでしょう。
ところで、昨日は猛暑の午前中、近所のＡさんが除草機を使って私の庭の草刈りをしてくれました。今年は殊更暑いことから草がよく生えた印象です。私は刈った草を、ご覧の通り、大きな袋に詰める作業をしました。実は、写真以外に未だ詰めてない草もあり、これから行います。
今日も午前中に彼が来て残りの場所を除草してくれます。このため、草は写真の倍ほどになるでしょう。しかし、楽しいこともあります。今夜はご苦労さん会を私の家で行います。彼は地区役員でもあり、毎朝のラジオ体操仲間でもあります。若き日は、結婚式の司会をよく頼まれて行なったそうで話は得意です。
Dear my overseas friends who like nature
Today, August 11th, is Mountain Day in Japan. Actually, I had two close mountaineers in my neighborhood. One of them had climbed all of the "100 famous mountains of Japan." However, both of them passed away in recent years. For this reason, and because of the recent occurrence of bears in Gumma prefecture, I plan to refrain from climbing mountains alone from now on.
Since my young period to the present, I have vivid memories of climbing the mountain tops of my Gumma Prefecture that can be seen from the third floor of my house, including Mt. Asama, Mt. Hotaka, and Mt. Tanigawa, as well as Mt. Tairapyo, the peaks of Mt. Haruna, the peaks of Mt. Akagi, Mt. Azuma, Mt. Mikabo to the east and west, Mt. Oze Shibutsu, and outside the prefecture, the summit of famous Mt. Norikura. I will never forget the impression of the vast Kanto Plain seen from the summit of Mt. Asama, which I climbed three times in my twenties.
By the way, yesterday, in the middle of a scorching hot morning, my neighbor Mr. A used a weeder to mow the grass in my garden. This year has been particularly scorching hot, so it seems that the grass has grown well. As you can see, I packed the cut grass into large 7 bags. In fact, there is still some grass other than that in the photo so that I have to packed the grass from now on.
He will come again this morning to weed the remaining areas, so there will probably be twice as much grass as in the photo. But there is also something fun to be done. Tonight we are having a thank-you party at my home. He is a district officer, and also a buddy who does radio gymnastics with me every morning. Apparently, in his younger days he was often asked to MC for weddings, so he is a good talker.
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