Warm months, ume fully out and catching up with house chores.

It was the warmest January on record by NOAA. Here. On the heels of that record hottest month, it has been much warmer this month also. It was like mid spring in the last few days. We should expect the hottest summer this year. It concerns us with regard to two points. One is how to deal with the heat wave at home. With the electricity charges soaring high, we should athermalize the house, especially the windows. The windows already have double glazed glasses. But maybe, doubling the windows is necessary, even though that remodelling requires much work/cost. Global warming won't recede easily so that we should prepare for that change now.

The other point is that this heat wave may degrade the growth of summer vegetables. Some kinds should be planted earlier than usual. And some tropical or subtropical vegetables should be tried. I am afraid people are too optimistic or indifferent to the future of farming.  They may think they could purchase them from other countries. But once our country is struck by famine with global warming, the others may also have the same disaster and won't export anything to us. It should be the reality of the consequence of global warming.

Ume flowers are fully out now. Some are starting falling on the ground. As repeatedly written, my parents used to enjoy them from the dining kitchen behind this tree. How many years have they had the blooming of this ume tree? How about us?

Still cooking dinner dishes. Roasted pork fillet for this evening meal. Together with chinese dimpling and warm vegetables.

Sometimes too tired to do with cooking all after a hectic day at the lawn and farm. My wife takes over that duty in such an occasion. When both of us are exhausted, we go for shopping some sushi. She is still busy with paper works for closing the medical corportion. All of the work will be finished by the end of next month. I find it interesting to cook something from time to time. In my 30s through 50s, I haven't dome much house work like cooking. I am catching up or making up for that at present.