2014.9.3

It was fine.

Today I watched a news of elephant's 1st year birthday.  I hear there is an elephant which can draw pictures.  It wrote the kanji word "祝” which means celebration by its trunk with brush.
I also watched the news of the partner dog helping physically challenged people.

The other day I watched YouTube which showed the Gorilla's understanding language.

Those are very impressive examples that show the ability of animals.

The other day there was a crime that the criminal stabbed the knife into abdomen of the Seeing Eye dog.  I hope the criminal will be arrested soon.

 

2014.9.2

It was fine.  The length of sun shining today was 10 hours and 20 minutes in Tokyo, which was after 11 days or so.  I could see the beautiful Mt. Fuji in the morning.

I have just watched the sports news and known that Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori (錦織圭) won the game after four hours or so and has become the best 8 at US Open.  They say it has been 92 years for Japanese men to get that position.  I feel lucky to have seen his first championship game in Delray Beach in February 2008.
And a Japanese tennis player Kimiko Date-Krumm also won the game and became the best 8 for doubles.  They say it has been 22 years for Japanese women got that position.

Today there were other good world news.  A Japanese movie "Fushigina misaki no monogatari (ふしぎな岬の物語): A story of mysterious cape" produced by a Japanese popular actress Sayuri Yoshinaga (吉永小百合) received the Special Grand Prix of the jury.  And a director O Mipo (呉美保) received the best director award.  Congratulations!

2014.9.1

A new month has started.  September is kugatsu (九月), its old name is nagatsuki (長月) in Japan.  Nagatsuki literally means long month; the night becomes longer.

I took a day off to attend community work and meeting.  There will be a festival of the shrine this weekend therefore we cleaned around the shrine by weeding.  It was raining but we started from 8 in the morning.  After coming home I weeded around my house too which I have not done for a very long time because we ask the gardeners to do so.

At noon we had a representative meeting for an hour or so about the festival.

September 1 is known as bosai no hi (防災の日), Day of Disaster Prevention.  91 years ago there was the big earthquake in the Kanto area.