I Go to the Flower Blooming Castle Park

I went to Utsunomiya Castle Park and Utsunomiya Central Park to see flowers.
Contrary to today's rainy bad weather, it was a warm sunny day yesterday. Cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

I See My Friend Again For the First Time in 15 Yerars

I went to an Irish Pub, a Japanese style Izakaya-pub, an Italian bar and a Japanese noodle soup shop with my friend yesterday.

I enjoyed the reunion and spent wonderful time with him.

Mr. Sano, used to be my colleague, is living a quite adventurous life.

I worked with him for only two to three years at my company around 1998.

He got married in his young age, divorced after several years, changed occupations many times, once lived in the U.S..

He runs a company, works as an owner of three houses and also works as a software engineer now.

Listening to stories from a guy who is walking a completely different life comparing to mine stimulates my idea.

I Take Part in a Doubles Tennis Tournament with My Colleague Today

Tochigi Corporate Tennis Association held doubles tennis tournaments today.

Men's tournaments were divided two classes, A-class and B-class.

Participants could decide A or B judging from their skills by themselves.

My company's colleague Mr. Ida and I competed in a B-class tournament .

What's the result?

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We took enough chances to win the final match, but the title fell in the opponent's hands by a hair. Sigh.

Anyway, we enjoyed the tournament and a comfortable gentle spring day, for sure.

Mr. Ida right and I both hold the certificate of runner-up.
I also hold the prize of a pair of socks.

Hibiscus Flower Blooms

It becomes warmer day by day in my city Utsunomiya.

One bud of hibiscus flower at home beautifully bloomed today.

The size of cactus has become almost twice as large as it was two months ago; it also added three new branches.

I'm happy to have spring days in my town.

Italian Bar Baritone

After heavy snow-falling days in a raw, we had a sunny weekend.

My wife and I went to a Italian bar called Baritone for lunch.

The bar keeps hundreds of wine, opens as a bar at night and it does as a cafe afternoon.

It's a sunny warm day, so snowmen standing here and there began melting.

The snowman, on the left with a red cap, is melting by the sunlight.