Arboretum-san sent Hiroko various vegetable plants, so
Hiroko was very happy to plant them. It
was raining so hard the night before, that it was very good day to put all
those vegetable plants in the ground.
This year, Hiroko didn’t make the porch garden.
Empty Porch Garden - 2 pots on the porch, Dan-san has been
trying to raise big Japanese tomatoes using the seeds.
Taking the photos of the porch, the cute baby boy next door
was smiling at Hiroko. Hiroko couldn’t
to pass this cute face. Isn’t he
sosooooooooooooo cute?
Ohya-san’s (Land Lady) porch garden - Her son told her not to
raise any vegetable plants on the ground anymore, because she can’t take care
of them by herself. Her Grand-son bought
her tomato plants in the special box for the porch, so she has been raising
several plants on her porch.
This is whole back yard.
The building you see here is a three cars garage. The east (left) side and the west side of the
garden were filled with vegetable plants by Dan-san and Hiroko.
The next three plants came from Arboretum-san
Nira ( leek)
Tomato (this
belongs to Dan-san), and Shishi-to (Japanese pepper)
Akai Shiso (red perilla)
Midori Shiso (green perilla) - Only one Midori Shiso came out from the ground. Where are all those midori shiso that were
grown last year? Hiroko needs the midori shiso!!
Green onion
These plants mentioned above are under the
Hiroko’s care.
Dan-san takes care of all these plants mentioned below.
One jalapeño pepper and two sweet pepper plants on the east
side garden
This is west side garden
Dan-san is watering the plants.
Red big tomato
Dan-san has been
trying to raise the cherry tomato from seeds brought from Japan.
Cucumber – so many Japanese cucumbers came out from the seeds.
Three buds of green beans – this was also raised from seeds.
Hiroko can’t wait for the harvest day of all those vegetables. Chicago is still cold, around 55 at night and
65 during the day time. The Lake
Michigan’s water temperature is only 56 degree, so it is cooler near the
lake. Hopefully the weather will be getting
warmer for the sake of these vegetable plants.
Hiroko loves foods, so she has been thinking about what kind
of food will be served at the banquet party in the heaven. It
should be lots of delicious and rare food.
She can’t wait for the day to have the party in heaven.
Hiroko has always remembered that the word said by many
people about the Heaven..
He might have some thoughts in his mind the morning. Seeing Hiroko, he said, “I want to go to heaven. Hiroko, you are surely going to the Heaven,
because you are very good person. But
me?! I don’t know.” It was so sudden, that Hiroko couldn’t say
anything, but going to the heaven is not about being a good person. In the word of God, the Bible, a person who
goes to the heaven is not about if a person
is good or not, but whether if the person believes Jesus Christ is the Lord and
Savior or not. Believing Jesus as the
Lord Savior, the Lord God leads the person to Heaven. “8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not
by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
Eating
the lunch with this lady around the Easter, she said, “All my friends are in
the hell, so I don’t mind to go to hell.”
Hiroko remembers the famous Japanese authors who said that. Do they really think they don’t mind to go to
the hell? Hiroko grew up with these
words from her mother. If you tell a
lie, Hiroko’s mother said to Hiroko, “the Judge of Hell (Enma-sama) will pull
your tongue out.” If you steal, then,
“The Judge of Hell will chase you to the mountain of needles.” If you say ill things to others, rumors,
fighting, not listening or respecting the elders, acting bad, then, “The Judge
of Hell will put you in the boiling oil pan.”
Hiroko thought in her young age, how she could get to the heaven/gokuraku,
instead of hell. Even now, Hiroko can’t
live without sins, but thanks for the grace of God, Jesus as the Lord God and
Savior. Hell is a scarily and lonesome
place where is no love. “10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into
the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been
thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelation 20:10
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