Happy Occasion and Sad Occasion in Autumn, Nursery

Happy and Sad things were in the Autumn.

Well, let me tell you the sad thing.  It is funny to say “sad thing” but no more delicious fresh vegetables in Autumn.  It is sad.

There are no more cucumber and tomato plants.  Only sad looking green pepper plants are in the garden. 

Starting to wither are the Konnyaku plants, and trying to get matured cayenne pepper plants are in the Porch Garden.

No more delicious crunchy cucumber and delicious juicy red tomato to eat.

Hot, hot vinegar made with red cayenne pepper.  Putting this hot vinegar and cayenne pepper on the food makes very delicious.

Tsukudani made with cayenne pepper leaves.  It is very delicious eating this with rice

In the Japanese saying, Ogles will be laughing to hear talking of the following year things.  Let me make Ogles to laugh.  Hiroko can’t wait for 2014 summer to eat those delicious fresh cucumbers and tomatoes again.

Now, Happy things!

The Opera season has opened.  This year, Hiroko looked forward to see the Opera, because she would like to test her new eyes.  The first opera in this season was “Otello.”

This is the advertise board hung of the Otello on the wall of Lyric Opera House in Chicago.

No explanation for Otello by Shakespeare, but it is much better to be able to understand the lyric of the songs by reading the English subtitles.  Hiroko could not see any English subtitles last year, and everyone was laughing but not Hiroko.  It was so funny.  However, this year, you would not believe it.  No need to use the glasses to read the subtitle and understand everything.  Two days later of the eye surgery, the letter got blurred, but Hiroko could read them all.  It will be taking around 30 days to settle the vision of those eyes.  Hiroko appreciated so much for this new sight and those wonderful music and singers in the opera “Otello.”  Thanks again!

Since it was our dinner time after the opera, so Hiroko stopped at the restaurant called “Yokozuna” by the train station, and bought sushi called “Ozeki” for Dan-san, and for Hiroko “Una-don (eel-rice). 

Ozeki Sushi and Una-don.

The Sushi from this restaurant is very suitable taste to the Americans, so Dan-san was very happy to eat all those Sushi.  Hiroko has not eaten eel for a long time, so the food made Hiroko happy, too.

It was full-moon that night

It was a very big and beautiful moon, but Hiroko couldn’t take a good photo. 

At the both side of the moon, two airplanes were flying that looks like Venus and Mercury.