Garden - Vegetables, Nursery

The day finally comes.

“What shall I do?” Dan san is thinking. No cucumbers! No cucumber flowers! Many dead leaves! Dan-san decided to clean up all the cucumber plants.


There is empty ground, at where many cucumber plants were planted. Ah! No more fresh and delicious cucumbers until 2013 summer. Another empty ground there were green beans plants.

Tomato and bell-peppers are still producing the fruits, but these plants will also be ending soon.

All living things would be dead!

These cucumber plants on the porch garden are same. Hiroko has to clean those plants up soon.

The most of leaves of the cucumber plants are browned, withered, and gone.

Mikichan! Do you remember the cucumber was growing side ways which you found for Hiroko on the day you were leaving for Japan?

Hiroko couldn’t reach the cucumber, so it was grown, and grown this big
Hiroko will collect the seeds for next year from this cucumber, so waits for the cucumber to become more brown and soft for collecting good seeds.

Jalapeño pepper plants are very well right now. Hiroko is disappointed little bit for the other plants. The other plants should be a cayenne pepper, but it is different kinds of pepper. There are so many different kinds of pepper plants. Well, Dan-san and Hiroko will be more careful to pick the plants next year.

The idea of “All living things would be dead” applies also to the whole human being.

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Grand-ma’s death made Hiroko think “All living things would be dead” at the age of 4 years old. Hiroko met many close relatives and friends’ death during her young age.

Grand-ma’s death was the most shocking experience. Hiroko posted about the Grand-ma’s death in this blog on March 25, 2010, “Mitsuko-II, The Memory of Obaa-san (Grand-Ma) and Nabemono,” so some had already read this. Please let Hiroko to remember again about Grand-Ma’s death.

Her hand was getting colder and colder in Hiroko’s hand. Uncles, aunties and cousins were crying and saying that Obaa-san was going to someplace over the river. Hiroko knows that the incident affected her whole youth until 33 years old. Hiroko wanted to know that to where Obaa-san went, and how Hiroko can go there. Hiroko preferred to visit the temples and shrine than amusement park in her young age.

Hearing the resurrection of Jesus Christ made Hiroko realize that people would be resurrecting as the same way Jesus resurrected, and having the new life. About 13 years Hiroko had been studying, meditating, reading, searching about sin, and the truth of resurrection of Jesus.

Hiroko gave herself trusting in Jesus Christ. She could believe the bloodshed on the cross by Jesus Christ would be cleansing the sin, and the truth of Jesus’ resurrection. Hiroko finally has the peace in her mind in Christ and His promise of the eternal life with Christ.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

All living things would be dead, but Christian would be resurrecting and have the new life with Christ.