５時半に起床でも、朝食は９時です。

　

　今朝は早朝より忙しく、６時１０分に家を出て、ラジオ体操会場に行き、始まる前に数人と楽しく会話を交わし、帰宅すると７時でした。このため、朝食時間は９時までありません。というのは、具だくさんの味噌汁など朝食の用意をしたままで火にかげず、７時３０分に家を出て、倉賀野小児童２００名程の登校指導を信号機の所で行います。

　その後、今日はゴミ出しの日ですから、近所の一人暮らしの高齢女性宅のゴミも集積所へ運び、そして、朝食の用意となります。では、これから交通指導に行って参ります。

　追伸・・・登校途上のたくさんの小学生に、こちらから「おはようございます。」と挨拶しますと、皆元気に挨拶してくれます。最近、気づくことですが、男子も女子も背の高い子がいます。

　実は、先日、次女の家に行きましたら、小学5年になる孫娘の身長が伸びてるのには驚きました。１５３cmあるとのことです。その昔、私は中学１年入学時で１５０cmでした。それでも学年で高い方でした。

　彼女は小学校入学以来、バスケットボールに夢中です。ジャンプするスポーツなので、これが功を奏しているのでしょう。しかも、その下の小３の妹も大きくなり始めてます。背が高い人は骨が長いので、今後も牛乳はもちろん、カルシュームをしっかり摂取すれば、今後も背が伸び、将来は私の身長に近づくかもしれません。

Dear my friends

　I was busy this morning, leaving home at 6:10 and going to the radio gymnastics venue. Before it started, I chatted with a few people and got home at 7:00. Because of this, I didn't have breakfast until 9:00. I left home at 7:30 with breakfast preparations, including miso soup with lots of ingredients, then I instructed about 200 students of Kuragano Elementary School on their way to school at the traffic intersection.

　After that, since it was garbage collection today, I also took the garbage from an elderly woman living alone in the neighborhood to the collection point, and then prepared breakfast. Now I'm off to instruct them.

　PS... When I greet the many elementary school students on their way to school with a "Good morning," they all greet me cheerfully. I've noticed recently that there are many tall children, both boys and girls.

　Actually, the other day when I went to my second daughter's home in Maebachi-City, I was surprised at how tall my granddaughter, who is in the fifth grade, has grown. She is apparently 153cm tall. A long time ago, when I entered my first year of junior high school, I was 150cm tall. At that time, I was tall in my grade.

　Since she started elementary school, she has been crazy about basketball. It's a sport that involves jumping, so this is probably effective to her stature. What's more, her younger sister, who is in third grade, is also starting to get taller. Generally, tall people have long bones, so if they continue to consume plenty of calcium, as well as milk, they will continue to grow taller, and in the future they may approach my height.