Birthday surprise

I have a very nice group of friends who used to work together in the office. Now we're in a different circumstances just getting together once or twice a month. Though we are not colleagues anymore, we are united one another keeping up with each life. What 's more we make it a rule to send a bouquet of 100 gerbera flowers on each one's birthday. It's really a big joy to have it on time and to know someone remember my birthday.Here is a bouquet of 100 gerbera flowers that I got the other day.
Click the image and you'll see how I was excited about this.

Exciting way to learn English

I came up with a new English- learning website called "iKnow!" For anyone that is always looking for a new door to a better method of mastering a foreign language, this is really something. It's beyond your expectations.

"iKnow!" is a SNSwebsite and has quite a few contents starting from for begginers to advanced learners. Variety forms of lessons will never let you feel bored. Seeing is believing. Here is "iKnow!" for Japanese users.

Compromise

One of my husband's friends sends us a box of green asparagus from Hokkaido, the nothern part of Japan at this time of the season every year. I make it a rule to make a thank you note with Photoshop elements and mail it to him. I usually enjoy Photoshop elements but just last night every trial ended up just a mess. Once I got in a trouble, nothing helped. So I just quit and waited for another trial till this morning. Here is the one I made. I'm going to send this out today. Otherwise, I'm sure I'm going to start it from the very beginning for a better result.

Choise of flowers on Mother's Day

This basket of colorful flowers was the one I gave to my husband's mother who is 92 years old. It was an arranged flowers of small cockscomb. Well, it is much common to send a bouquet of carnation here in Japan too but the recent TV news has reported that many younger generation are prefer sending some other flowers to carnation. Of course carnation is the most popular choise. Besides it, hydrangea and rose are the one coming up next to carnation, then an arranged baskcet of flowers of all kinds are also getting popular. Though I am old enough to be gifed a bouquet of carnation from my children, maybe I'd better wait for another chance. Well, say, my birthday next month.

Such a treat!

A friend of mine's family rase strawberries and get them on the market every year. By the time they get ready for dressing the field for the nest planting, they have to put away all the strawberries from their field of 10 acre. Of course there are still lots of ripe berries in good shape. So he called me and some other friends of him to pick up strawberries before they were thrown away. Mmmmm, when you got inside the house, I smell strawberries. Once we start picking them, gee, there were too many and it didn't take long for us to make each box full of berries. Picking up strawberries while eating was such a happiness.

We brought home boxes of strawberries and I made my famly all suprised. I also dropped by with some small packages of strawberries at my neighboring families as a suprise. We had enough fresh berries. I also made jam and syrup out of them so that we could enjoy it for the time being.

After the cherry blossoms

The season of new green leaves is just with us now. Every size of trees in each housegarden and along the streets and roads is nothing but beautiful. It' so hard to keep my eyes just foward while driving along the beautiful streets with green trees.　Unlike my usual hectic driving, stopping at a red light make me feel I'm lucky. It gives me some time to enjoy the geen scenery, and what's more to take one or two pictures with my mobile phone pulling down a window.

Another shopping

I went to one of the biggest furniture shops in the city. Since I got the new printer at home, then, I've found that the present space that the old printer has sit wasn't wide enough for a new printer. The new one is so called a job-printer and a intergrated fax, printer,scanner, copier unit. It sounds so exciting. I haven't tried these functions except scanner from the new printer. Nor I didn't make a desicion on whichi model I should choose for my computer desk. There were too many! That was a welcoming surprise at the beginnning then it has turned out to be a bewilderment. Soon I was runnning out of time and headed for home.
I need time to make a decision.

New Printer

I got a new printer this afternoon. I'll come back and tell more about it. At this moment, I'm quite busy installing printer drivers and other required files. I'll see what I can do. Wish me luck! By the way, I've sent this picture from my mobile phone. It's quick, isn't it.

spring flowers here and there in my garden

Post from my mobile phone

I uploaded this picture from my mobile phone. 　
I kept this in my mobile photo file.
As you see the date, it was 1990.
My son and my daughter were just adorable
and still they are.