A peaceful day

It is getting even 30 deg C in the mid day here. Quite unusual temperature for this time in a year. Weeds won't wait for us tu stop growing. Both I and my wife have been cutting/pulling the weeds in the garden. Half an acre lot is a bit too much for this old couple to care for. My wife is only a part time gardener as well. 

I still sit on a small chair and run  a small sickle with single-minded concentration. Sometimes, a question why I should do this comes up in mind. I tell myself this property has been inherited through ancestors for centuries or at least from my aunt and caring for it is an honorable duty for me. It always goes on without such a self dialogue. Only being absorbed in it. After working too long, I often have some lumbago but taking a nap for an hour or so always alleviates it. 

Another question sometimes occupies my mind. It may sound a ridiculous question. Isn't it correct to get rid of weeds or unwanted plants in order to have certain plant like lawn or a vegetable grow from the ecological point of view. Isn't it an egoism for human being? Natural farming tells us to grow vegetables together with weeds so far as the latter won't disturb the former. It is sometimes surprising the latter is helping the former. On the other hand, we want our garden to have only lawn grown. Our life is disturbing the nature, isn't it? 

Considering of such a thing, I know it gets lunch time.  

Some vegetables are ready to be harvestd soon. Onions are grown. I found their leaf could be cooked and taste good if it is fresh. Dosens of them will be dried and stored to be consumed in the coming months until next spring.

Potatoes are growing as well. There are two other beds with them. Seriously, they are for the possible poverty life in the coming months.

A couple of years ago, I have planted a tree of iyokan orange at a corner of the garden. Sadly, the tree seemed to have withered in the cold weather of winter. I still found "basal shoots" at its base. I told my wife of that. In her calmness, she answered to me that it had been grafted and the rootstock grew the basal shoots. Unluckily, her observation seemed right.

Chating such a thing while pulling the weeds with my wife may be the best part of life so far. If the invasion to Iran by the US and Israel would not be ceasefired, the world, especially Asian countries, may suffer from teribble stagflation. Our administration won't prepare for that catastophic condition. The government put subsidy to the gas, not telling the people to refrain from using it. And, having intervened in the exchange trade, they have wasted the important reserve. They aimed at stopping lowering of JPY. Without improvement in the fundamentals, cheap JPY won't be normalized. So I could not help being pessimistic for the future but may enjoy peaceful days like today.