Not Kugelschreiber, Malheursement...

Finally, I made up my mind to contiue this blog after 13-month break. Thanks to my friends, Izumi in Cairns and Sandy in Honolulu for reminding me that I have this weblog and it hasn't been closed yet (lol)!

On last Sunday, I went to Costco in Misato city with my friends. It was very fun to see around big boxes stuffed with donuts, bagels, almonds, cherries, etc.




I bought a pair of shoes for Aki, and a shirt for my husband with ~2300yen and ~3400yen. Nice Price!



And I also bought a 12-piece melamine dinner ware set because quite a bit of dishes were broken by the earthquake in March. Aren't they pretty?

I enjoyed Napolitan pizza at Trattoria E Pizzeria Amici in Tsukuba.
My friend Saori took me there(She knows many good restaurants and shops).
The black sign in the first picture shows that this restaurant is authorized
by Verace Pizza Napoletana as a restaurant serves real Napolitan pizza.

There is a big stone oven and the atomosphere is nice an cozy.
I tried pizza with anchovy & garlic and spinach pasta with duck ragu sauce.
I really liked the fluffy pizza!

The restaurant was very busy although we went there on a weekday.
Advance reseravtion is recommended.

In my flower bed, there is a hydrangea, annabelle planted in last winter.
Last month, huge white blooms appeared !!
I was worried about its stem, though.

I was glad to see many flowers bloomed in June.

monarda ↓

Last month, my son and I picked juneberries, 878g in total.



I made jam same as last year. After boiling with some sugar and removed its seeds, it came down to a third in volume.



Picking juneberries and enjoying sweetness of juneberry jam is one of my family's favorites in early summer.

It's already July... I need to update this blog more often, really.

Today, I loaded four pictures of my garden in May.

↓rose iceberg


↓digitalis



↓herbs