Our Golden Week

got started at my wife's parents' house.
She was happy with the snowmen made of the snow
which her grandma preserved for her.

Shijukara, Great tit was often seen there this time.

She loves the field athletics.

It likely was good sunny day for the turtles also.

Poor FROGGY,

which couldn't go out on the rainy day.
Poor my older daughter, who couldn't go to SCOA's spring camp because of bad flu.
Poor my wife, who couldn't have special weekend.
Poor my younger daughter, who couldn't stop crying in her father's arms.
Poor Lance, who missed his fishing trip this weekend.

Poor Lance family, but they must be happy only to have good time together this weekend.

Busy weekend

Charity concert, which our friends Music Lab Familia joined.

We had to leave in a short time,
so couldn't listen their musical performance well.

Walking at dusk, younger baby daughter didn't stop crying...

GOTENBA

Cherry blossoms started to  fall there.

Baetis's spinner(SHIROHARA?),
 don't tempt me to go fishing until next weekend.

SAKURAGARI

Visited KASHIYA park after 7years interval.
Within 30min drive from our home.

Today's first new bird was NYUNAISUZUME,Cinnamon Sparrow.
Its song was different from common SUZUME.

This is our second new bird today. HIRENJAKU, Japanese Waxwing.
Please be closer to us next time.

Enjoyed happy lunch time. Thanks, my honey.

SAKURA is special tree for us Japanese.
Please encourage us a lot.

Even though

Even though I bet on slight possibility,
KANOGAWA main stream got colored already...(12:17)





Even though I couldn't fish there, got the first shot of him(12:46).



Even though it was past one o'clock, headed for OSHINO from IZU(14:21).

Even though it is already April, OSHINO is having its late spring there(14:38).

Even though I expected many crazy rises for the cloudy baetis, the river kept silence(14:43)...

Even though it was super small size, brownie always made me happy.
#20 parachute worked well in the evening(18:12).

Even though it was the rainbow trout, it had orange colored  belly(18:18).

Even though this is unclear pic, there was some small floating nymphs. KUSHIGE?
Even though I kept fishing until HIGENAGA time(19:00), added one more fish only.

Even though it was not fantastic day today, I'm pretty sure that I love the fly fishing.

Her first visit to KADOIKE park

Some cherry blossoms start flowering.

Bevy of KINKUROHAJIRO, Tufted Duck.

Tame young MUKUDORI, Grey Starling.

SHIBAZAKURA was also nice to see.

It was a little windy, but good spring day for us four.

OSHINO kept silence

 Fishing Time; 10:30- 14:30   Weather: Sunny, sometimes cloudy. Still cold.
Hooked: 7,  Caught: 0 ( in other words "SKUNKED", missed some wonderful YAMAME trouts...)
Hatch: poor but some OKUMA were seen
Hit Fly: #20 baetis parachute, #14 OKUMA parachute, #26-32 midge pupa

Only ENAGA, Long-tailed Tit consoled me. Thanks.

10th anniversary



Thank you for being with me for ten years, honey.



KANOGAWA main stream



Found some rises here though,
it was unstable and difficult for me.

 I guess most of fly fishermen are hesitating to go fishing now. And It was same to me. Still I don't have any justifiable reason to do though, I'd gone for fishing today.


Okuma-madara mayfly's dun(male),
first time to see at KANOGAWA





ERUMON_HIRATA mayfly
 female dun



Could catch two fishes at upper section. And missed several good strikes there...



Many HIRATA mayflies are popping out now.
Especially in the evening.

In the evening,many white HIRATA duns were seen on the surface, and several spotty rises also. I thought I got it. But it was still mysterious evening for me this time again.

Usual peaceful day

We found the TSUKUSHI just in front of our house.Looked like something strong.

Now she is good unicycle rider.




She took a nap in the baby carrier.We all family had to thank for having usual peaceful day.

Visited KIKUGAWA after long interval

She helped her grandma
 to harvest the broccoli sprouts. 

The flower of a potherb mustard, MIZUNA.

Arrangement of the storeroom

I did arrange the stuffs in our storeroom today, especially for the emergency items.

Still TV reports the sad news about the earthquake and TSUNAMI disaster of the northeast region in Japan. We should get over it together now.

The intensity of 4 earthquake

on the Japanese seven-stage seismic scale, which we had here in MISHIMA about one hour before. We all are safe now.
So I added the parts which should prevent the bookshelf's falling down. I hope we won't have such a big one as it works.

First deliberate power cut

was scheduled yesterday though, it was not done. And today was the first one for us. It started 19:00 when I got home, and ended 21:00.

It was only two hours, but we had a new understanding of our blessed environment. And we found that we could minimize our usual power consumption more. It must be good experience for our kids.