荷造り (packing)

今日は、娘夫婦は仕事に出かけ、夏休みに入っている孫と私が留守番、テレビを見たりふざっけこをしたりして過ごしていた。孫とは会話ではコミュニケーションが取れない、せめて身体を触れ合うことで
コミュニケーションを図っている。
明日からフロリダのディズニーワールド出かける、１週間の荷造りを始めた。初めて行くので楽しんで来ようと思う。そのため、私のブログは一週間のお休み予定です。
Today, my daughter and her husband went to work. I babysat my grandson. We watched TV and played together. I can't communicate with my grandson by talking but we communicated by gestures. We are going to Florida's Disney World tomorrow. I started packing for a week trip. This is my first time in Florida and I am sure I will have a good time. I am taking a break from my blog for one week during my trip.

アイスクリーム (icecream)

孫のドラムレッスンの日、今日も一緒に付いていった。レッスン前にアイスクリームの専門店に立ち寄り、孫、娘、私とそれぞれ違うアイスクリームを注文した。私は山二つのチョコレートアイスクリームを食べた、これが結構美味しい、そして安い日本円で２００円位かな、まだ食べられたが身体のことを考えやめた。
その後、孫はレッスン、娘と私は３軒の店をどんな物が売られているか見て廻った。いずれも大きな店で、４５分の時間では見切れません。
Today's my grandson's drum lesson day. Once again I tagged along with him. Before the lesson, we stopped by an ice cream shop. My grandson, my daughter, and I, all ordered a different flavor. I ordered chocolate ice cream. It's really delicious and cheap compared with Japan - it's about 200 yen. I could eat more but I didn't want to get sick by eating too much ice cream so I didn't eat all. After the ice cream, my grandson went to the lesson and my daughter and I looked around the stores near there. All three stores we went were really big and I couldn't see all in 45 minutes.

水遣り (sprinklers)

芝生に水をやるのが私の日課に成っている、二台のスプリンクラーを使って約２時間すべての芝生に水をやる、暑いので水遊びでは無いが結構楽しいものである。芝生への水遣りも夏季の間天気がよい時は出来るだけやるようにしているし、害虫駆除の薬品を散布しなければならないし、芝の手入れも大変です。町全体が道路、歩道を除いて全てが芝生と樹木と言う感じ、うちは芝生の手入をいたしませんとは行かない町、時間もお金も掛かる、私の様に２ヶ月だけだと楽しいのかも知れません。
今日宝くじを５ドル買て見た、コインで何箇所も削り当りはずれを確認するゲーム見たいなもの、見事１０ドルが当ったラッキーである、これでまた１０ドル分（２ドル～買える）買える当りが続くことを願って買い続ける予定、楽しみである。
I water our yard everyday - it's becoming my daily task. I move around two sprinklers (with hoses) and gave water to the grass. It usual takes for about 2 hours total. Because it's hot here now, it's sort of fun... don't mind splashing water to myself. During the hot weather, the grass requires a lot of water and sometimes also need the stuff to kill some noxious insect. The town my daughter lives has a lot of trees and grass around houses so we have to put some effort taking care of yard just to keep up the neighbors. That means it takes some money and time. For somebody like me who is just here for two months, it's actually sort of fun, though.
Today, I bought a lottery. This is a "scratch" game - I had to use a penny to scratch off many places. I bought a ticket for $5.00 and I won $10.00! I will use the winning $10.00 to buy more scratch games (I can buy one ticket from $2.00).