Petunia

Summer flowers don't grow right maybe due to the heavy rainfalls.(><)Flowers we always have don't grow alright, so tried petunia for the first time. They say it does not grow good if it gets rainfalls. We put the pots at the corner of our garden where there are no tree branches above so that it never gets raindrops from the tip of the branches. It seems ok at the moment We got them after the rainy season was over, so if we got them before the rainy season, it might have been different. Lately some new comers are also available e.g prietta but even the prietta has not grown good this summer. By the way, we hardly have the typical rainfalls like silk in rainy season lately like we did before. It always goes like tropical rainfalls which starts all of sudden for a quarter to an hour. What's going on? Those tropical hard rainfalls often bring disasters.... Hayaokidori website

Cleaning the HO gauge model train layout.

Cleaned our HO gauge model train layout very hard today. When I use a vacuum cleaner for it, it always causes to repair structures, figures etc. Reparing them is very sensitive work, I need to do anything very carefully. Probably it is harder than making them for the first time. But can't complain, if I don't use a vacuum cleaner for it, probably much harder! Hayaokidori website

Igloos for candles

While I played with my buddy da snowblower II, I made some igloos for candles by using a bucket. Put candles going on in them and placed around the front. When candles are going on, the fire make our heart warm! Actually snow removing is a tough job but if it's only tough tough tough and no fun, it's no fun. I always try to find something fun when I need to do something boring or hard :) Check the detail in our Facebook page Hayaokidori website

A Happy New Year 2013

A Happy New Year from Hakuba! Tried to put some new year decoration with a kind of ivy and a mini tree in a tiny pot. We hope this year will go alright with everyone. Hayaokidori website

Watching Geminds

We can find even milky way clearly in the sky here in Hakuba. They say Geminds will be visible around Dec.13th-14th this year, would you like to watch them in Hakuba with us?

Our guests can join a star watching for free at the night of Dec.13th, an unique and special chance to watch stars with an astronomer Mr.Watanabe co-operated with Hakuba Goryu sight seeing association.

Schedule for Dec.13th : Never fail to be held, rainy or cloudy it does not matter!
17:00 Reception and explanation for Geminds
18：00～20：00　Free time - maybe dinner time for you.
20：00～Watching stars for about one hour.

4:00 a.m. on Dec.14th : Watching Geminds （Only for attendants on 13th who "would like to" join. Will be canceled if it's rainy or cloudy）

Hmmm.. 4 a.m.?? I am not an earlybird. (Hayaokidori means earlybird though...)　(^^;;

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Actually joined a star watching held in the middle of this Nov. 2012. Mr.Watanabe patiently explained this and that stars to us. I enjoyed the time after a long interval. It's already cold enough here, so please have enough clothes with you.

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When wind changes

Autumn wind invited me to walk around, so I did. Found rice paddles look yellower than before. Didn't notice it at all as I had not paid enough attention to it. I guess perhaps when wind changes, it's a sign to inform us the season changes.
A Youtube clip by Hakuba sightseeing association. http://youtu.be/z6_7NldVuq0 We had fewer rainfalls in this previous rainy season and now we have usual rainfalls in this September. No worries at all any more for water supply, I guess farmers wanted more rainfalls in rainy season when their vegitables and stuff grow than in harvesting time. They say a typhoon is hitting Okinawa region this coming weekends, I hope people there talk about where to escape to share the information just in case. Hayaokidori website

Toyoshina I.C is scheduled to be renamed as Azumino I.C

On Oct.7th 2012, they'll renamed the I.C. Check it out and note it when you drive this area. Have a safe trip!

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