The words of greeting after the end of the rainy season is "It's very hot !"
I can't go out during the day due to the heat wave.
The fields where I planted flowers are filled with weeds.
What should I do ?
I got up early this morning and mowed the grasses with a sickle from 5:30 to 6:30.
I sweated a lot and I was bitten by a lot of mosquitoes.
The field is not so clean yet.
I can't resist weeds !
Geckoes(housekeeper) appear on the windows of my house night after night from the end of June.
Their backs are black and grotesque, but their bellies are pure white and cute.
They are good at catching tiny insects on the window.
I see them during summer every night. 
The declaration of the end of the rainy season was finally announced today.
I felt refreshed with less humidity this morning.
However, the heat during the day is over 30 degrees Celsius.
Frightened by the glare of the sun, I am in my room with the help of the air conditioner and fan.
Grasses in my garden grows as much as they want.
I can't beat the vitarity of grasses.
My flower garden has become a grass garden.
Hot summer has begun.
This poem was on a leaflet I recieved from a monk on the other day.
"You are all right as you are.
Your face, body ,name and surname are perfect for you.
Poverty and richness, your parents and your children, your son's wife and your grandchildren,
they are all perfect for you.
Happiness, misfortune, joy and even sadness are just right.
The life you led is neither nad nor good.
It's good for you.
If you go to hell or go to paradice, the place you go is just right.
You don't need to be conceited, no need to be condescending.
There is neither above nor below.
Even the date of your death is just right.
Your life with Buddha can't be exactly bad.
It seemed that this poem is the work of Ryokan, but in fact Mitsuji Fujiba, a monk of Otani denomination in Ishikaw Prefecture wrote it about 30 years
ago.
I was moved to read this poem, so I uploaded it.
flowers of aloe
I went to toilet in the middle of last night.
The atomosphere was somehow different from usual.
The toilet seat was cold and there was no response when I tried to flush water.
So I flushed water with manual and I was sure the remote control or something was broken.
In the morning, my husband also knew something strange with the toilet and he read the user's manual.
It seemed that electricity was leaking from the toilet power plug.
I serched it on the internet before calling an engineer and it said that "the concent may be dusty".
So we checked it up.
Surprisingly, there were many tiny ants.
After removing them and plugging the power plug into the outlet again, it was restored.
Why were tiny ants there ?
They will leave the nest soon.
Yesterday, two days after the snake riot, the swallows were getting bigger and practicing flapping its wings.
I was watching over the nest so that the snake wouldn't attack them, but the snake didn't show up, probably because it was raining.
I felt like "Cheer up swallows !"
However, a tragedy occurred.
The picture was taken yesterday evening before my walking, and four swallows are leaning over and waiting for food.
When I came home about an hour later, the parent swallows were very noisy.
A large snake with a chick in its mouth was hunging from the nest.
My husband was away, so I asked a man next door to help me get rid of the snake.
I didin't know haw many swallows the snake ate.
It was sunny yesterday for the first time in a while, and the temperature rose, so maybe the snakes were active again.
I was very sad and disappointed.
Swallows have a life expectancy of about 15 years, but they are said to live about a year and a half on average because they are attacked by various creatures.
Living in nature is very difficult, isn't it ?
