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  A week has passed since Golden Week. How did you enjoy your holidays?

 

  Of course, my blog during/soon after Golden Week is about my tradition¹ — a flower shopping spree² with my friend! I got up in the morning excitedly. I made coffee and a bag of snacks³ and put them in the car. (These are important because we have to have a "mogu mogu (munching⁴)" time — like the Japan curling team — to use our shopping time effectively⁵, and off we go⁶!!

 

  In April, it was quite cold for that season. I don’t know if this low temperature was related to the selections at nurseries⁷ (we visited 4 nurseries!), but we didn’t see much of the tall kinds of flowers such as Lupinas or Delpheniums. Or was it just a question of⁸ timing? On this day, it was a cold rainy day, and I thought I was not in the right mood to enjoy our day but my wallet proved⁹ I WAS!!

 

  Anyway, to make up for¹⁰ that cold shopping day, since we had a very long 10-day Golden Week, I went out with Will who also wanted to go flower shopping and we bought more stuff¹¹ for our garden.

 

  Now we had almost finished planting the flowers we bought. Our garden and the area around the front door are full of life! We are enjoying every moment looking at our garden and the plants and getting a lot of good energy!!

   

 

 

  

 

 

 

 
 This was the very last plant that I added to the shopping basket this season — blue clover!

 

 

 

 Now they are all blended into our garden!

 　

 

    

 

   

◆1 tradition :慣習

◆2 shopping spree : 思いっきり楽しむ買い物
◆3 snack : 軽食
◆4 munch : もぐもぐ食べる

◆5 effectively : 効率よく
◆6 go off : 出発する
◆7 nursery : 苗屋・園芸店