Katriona's Diary

Sunny day during the rainy season. After the rainy or dark cloudy days this weather is welcomed, we washed many clothes and hung them in the sun. In our garden the hosta flowers began to bloom.



And, I found the trumpet vine also shows its flowers.



This is the flower my grandmother had liked so we keep this plant in our garden. But, my impression is that this is the flower of midsummer, blooms in the strong sunshine. And yes, today the sunshine is rather strong, like in real summer. In this sunshine we can’t weed the garden nor other tasks in the garden … at least around mid-day :(

Now we are in the annual rainy season. It doesn’t mean we have rain every day, sometimes sunshine comes. Still the weather is very very changeable and doubtful, we can’t leave the washing on the line outdoors. This is today’s newspaper, the weather forecast article. Look at this mixture of red(sunny), grey(cloudy) and blue(rain) !!



At least no rain this morning, and our garden cats seem to be contented enough.

I have put a clinical thermometer at my bedside(correctly, futonside) since the Covid pandemic began in 2020, to take my body temperature every morning when I wake. Now people don't care about Covid much but this has become the custom, I have continued to keep the thermometer beside when I sleep. Though recently I often forgot to take the temperature after I wake up. Maybe because I seldom think about Covid now. The virus still exist, there must be many patients. But with the fewer news reports we don't know how many they are, and how serious. Hopefully, not too serious. And we have more urgent, serious social problems everywhere, and I have my own minor (but serious enough to myself) problems :(

Yesterday it has been raining all day, the heavy rain and strong wind caused by the big and slow (the worst combination!) typhoon. Some people were killed, some landslides and many floods in various places … and the public transportations were in a mess. This morning it’s still raining but before noon it stopped. Fortunately there was no damage around my house. But everything’s wet, including our garden cats X(


A cat like a drowned rat…


Still wet as well as the surface of the wooden verandah.

In the afternoon the verandah and the cats were dry :)


We even have some sunshine and cats are happy now XD

I still have the trouble in my eyes, and the contact lenses. I can't keep having the lenses in, even on my worktime I often take them out, have eye drop, then put the lenses in again.
Within a few days I'll have the new lenses which would match to the curve of my eyeballs. I hope with those new lenses this uncomfortable pain and itching would cease. And, I should make the glasses - for over 35 years I have used contact lenses and no serious troubles - never, so I have never made the glasses since when I start using the contact lenses. But maybe now the time I should :(

Mother left for one night trip with friends this morning. Being alone at home(with Krurun), I don’t know why but I feel like there are too many things - more than usual -I have to do. Researching something on internet, picking the ripened juneberries from the garden tree, going to the nearby shop to send some package by delivery service, etc. And all the while I was finding something I should do next… today it’s comfortably fine so I should weed the garden… I ought to write a letter to someone… I have to check if there is a enough stock of dried timothy grass for Krurun - How about the potty pads for her toilet? I really need to make some drawings for the small club I belong to, etc… thus I can’t feel perfectly relieved or relaxed :( …but of course, at the same time, I somehow feel quite free.
The weather is a bit changeable, first sunny then cloudy, now late in the afternoon the sunshine again. In our garden some spring flowers are bright, and juneberry too.









And it’s fun to see the garden cats.


Miaow.


Showing the bottom of his foot X)

Yesterday and today, we have had unusual heat. The temperature has risen, as hot as in July. This sudden heat makes my Juneberry ripen early. This is Juneberry, its berries ripen usually in June. But I need to pick the ripened berries now. The part of the berries are still in green. Quite unbalanced :(

Yesterday I got a small milk pot. I have used an old pot to make chai(spiced tea with milk) for many years but its handle is too fragile now, I have wanted a new one. The new pots or pans make us somewhat happy? X)

Last Saturday it was so windy that the yucca flower stem was fallen. Pity. Still some flowers were blooming on the fallen stem so today I took it from the main part of the plant and put it in the bucket water now at least I can enjoy its flowers X)



Today I work at home. In the morning it’s fine and very comfortable but now in the afternoon there are some clouds in the sky… the weather forecast says we’d have some amount of rain from this evening, then on this weekend :(. Pity. This is one of the most comfortable and beautiful time of an year if it’s sunny…

Saturday : dangerously windy.
Sunday : heavy rain all day.
Monday : first rain, then cloudy.
And today, Tuesday morning it’s finally fine! When I was going to leave home for the office I saw oneof our garden cats was relaxing on the sunny pavement. He seems to be happy :)


Ah… there is someone on the pavement.


There you are…