4 August 2011

Summer greeting


暑中お見舞い申し上げます。

皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか? 

今年は暑くなる!と、夏が始まる前から脅迫概念めいたものを持っていたけれど、いざ夏がくると意外に過ごしやすい。家では去年ほどクーラーをつける事もなく、外も日傘を片手に普通に歩ける。
今までは室内と室外との気温差が恐ろしいほどあり、今年はなるべくクーラーを使わず、使っても室内の温度をさほど下げずにいる事で、外の温度も以前ほど気にならなくなったように感じる。

何より、いつも外出先の冷えきった電車やデパートで腹痛を抱えこむ私には、全体的な節電効果による設定温度のおかげで非常に外出しやすくなった。
。。。といっても、そんなに出かけないのだけれど。。

そういえば、アイスクリームを食べる量も減った!
。。。年を取っただけかもしれないけれど。。

お盆もすぎれば暑さも徐々に和らいでいくだろうし、そうなれば散歩もしやすい。
出来れば山へ行きたいけれど、そこは手術したての手首と相談。
ようやく暑苦しかった三角巾も取れ、ちいさなフランケンシュタインが手首で回復を待っている。涼しくなる頃には自由が利くかな。

Summer greetings!
Hope everybody is well.

Just before the summer, we all said that "This Summer will be horribly hot!" but actually it's been not so bad. I don't use air-conditioning much at home and I can walk outside with my little sun umbrella.
I suppose we've been so spoiled by using the air-conditioning system and it was so usual for us to have huge temperature gap between inside and outside. But this summer, as we all try to save the electricity, we try to set the air-conditioning temperature higher (like 28c) so seems like it helps us to survive outside's temperature, too.

Especially, one good thing is that, it used to be super cold in the department stores and in the public transports so I often had stomach troubles before but not so much this summer!!!
...However, generally, I don't go out that much.

And I don't eat ice-creams a lot either!
...However, it might be just because I am getting older.

After the mid Aug, the temperature should goes down slowly so it will be good for a walk.
Would be nice to go up to the mountain but I have to ask my wrist which just had an ope.
Finally my arm slings is gone (which was hot to wear) but my little Franckenstein is waiting to recover. Hopefully soon.