水の有難さを感じる日々

 　
　庭の植木への放水は、気持ちがすっきりして楽しいものです。それは「水が思ったところへ勢いよく届く」からです。井戸水を汲み上げるモーターの力が強く、しかも、いくら水を使っても水道代がかからないので、これは親に感謝です。亡き母の「井戸を潰してはいけないよ。」の言葉が毎日しみじみと私の心に伝わってきます。

　お陰で、たくさんの植木たちが生き生き成長し、春にはたくさん花が咲き、枇杷や金柑、梅など果物が実をつけます。来年からは急成長してるイチジクも生りそうです。ぜひ、味見にいらして下さい。太陽と水と土により植物は成長し花や実をつけます。しかし、それ以上に有難いことで私たちがつい忘れがちなことは、植物は「光合成によってたくさんの酸素を生み出します。」これこそ人間の健康に不可欠なことです。

　例年、雨不足になる１月末～２月頃に井戸水が涸れる事があります。ですから、井戸水を無駄にしてはなりません。人間とは何事も当たり前となって感謝の気持ちが減ると「水が出なくなり」罰として自分に跳ね返って来ます。昨日は１０mのホースをホームセンターで購入してきました。

　実は、最近、ホースを車で轢いてしまったのです。そしたら、亀裂が入り、水圧が高いのでそこから水が飛び出してしまうのです。ホースの扱いを大切にする気持ちが私に不足してました。反省です。

Dear my friends who are crazy about watering to plants and great music.

　The simultaneous interpretation into English for our mutual understanding will be done after my breakfast in Japan time.

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　Watering the plants in my garden is refreshing and enjoyable for me. This is because the water reaches exactly where I want. The motor that pumps the well water is powerful, and no matter how much water I use, there's no water bill, so I'm grateful to my parents since 60 years ago. My late mother's words, "Don't ruin the well," resonate with me every day still now.

　Thanks to well water made by my parents, many of the plants are thriving, blooming in abundance in the spring and bearing fruit like loquats, kumquats, and plums. Next year, the rapidly growing figs should also be born. Facebook friends, please come and taste them! I am waiting for you from NZ to the core. Plants grow and flower and bear fruit with the sun, water, and soil. However, something we often forget what we're even more grateful, is that plants produce a lot of oxygen through photosynthesis, which is essential for human life.

　Usually, the well water dries up around the end of January to February due to a lack of rain. Therefore, well water must not be wasted. When humans including me lose their sense of gratitude, the water will stop flowing and it will come back to us as punishment. Yesterday I bought a 10m hose at a hardware store.

　As the matter of fact, I recently ran over the hose with my car. It cracked in the middle, and because the water pressure was so high, water started spraying out. I was not careful enough to handle the hose. I regret it.