Hi Kiyoshi Rainy season of between end of May to early July is called "Tsuyu" Some time home owner use unbrella to protect flower. Hokkaido don't have tsuyu/rainy season. Planting time It is depend on plant and location. Are you in zone 6 or 5? If you can tell where you live/general location then I can tell more specificly. Blooming time of year If cherry tree's flowering timing from kyushu to Hokkaido, It is normaly forcasted well every year. Useing Yoshino cherry as indication tree. some cherry tree bloom twice . spring and fall. some cherry tree bloom twice one after another. Some plants,shurbs bloom longer than otherssome tree flower only two weeks or so and some blooms 3 month or longer.ability of tree, shurbs,plants,and skill of gardner make different. rain some time rain/shower 4~5 days continuosly. This time of rain is very important to grow rice. rain of summer and after typhoon season's rain are different. During typhoon season we have heavy rain. Location Inland of Northeast and coast of north east have different weather. so does Japan. For exsample Hokkaido island, northern part of Japan, Hakodate city is more like new York. northern part of Hokkaido is like Alberta, Cannada Blooming time Again it is depend on plants and location.If you travel 50 miles to north,south east or west blooming time of same plants may differ 10 days or more. early or late. If elevation is chenged then blooming time of same plant may differ 30 days or more. If you contac to Cosulate General of Japan in your area, they will provide you some free information. Don't afraid to ask.....yama

Hi Nora teita = is size of business size envelpe wood board. 20~25 cm long ( 8~9 inch long) 10 cm wide( 4inch). right side top, make marking about at 10 cm from corner. this marking to right side bottom corner . you cut off. use shape pointed side to dig or remove small stone, remove small hump. it is most inexpenvive gardening tool. and works every time. if you have 40~ 50cm long board and cut in half . when placeing sad, it is a "must have" tool. flower bed ,palnting shurbs, large trees I always use it. sad fertilizer, other materials: try to find near " nokyo" farmer's coop. sad do not have big demand as in usa. you can ask to gardeners if they can sell it to you. if you see yellowed sad, don't warry . it will be ok. before place sad: scrape top soil and save it side. make several mound , so that you don't have to carry distance. if you can buy sad enough to called "Mekura bari" no space between sad , or buy half of area you need . fill soil between then. soil is expensive too. you scraped top soil shoud save untill all sads are placed. Take gushi: skew will not work . it is too smooth. cut bamboo 5~6 inch long with node. split it about 1/4 ~3/8 wide . smooth end, make it point. end with node now have rough end, rough end will prevent sad shift and hold sad well. when you split bamboo, node is up. to spilt bamboo we use "Take nata" a hachet 6~8 inch long 1 1/2 inch wide with handle. 4~5,000 yen . do not arraid to ask for bamboo. most of owner let's you cut bamboo. specialy for "prety young gaijin" swap with Canadian candy or cocky. you can go back for bambooshoots or some other projectwhen you need bamboos. please do not delay tetunas shot and nihon noen shot. :):):) I have three mothers. mother who gave me birth. a Jewish lady who is looking after me and going to have real Jewish mother soon. it is worth more than diamonds. hehehe I become friend of Thai restaurant owner's family. I baby sit 9 year old girl, 6 year old girl 4year old boy. when I say something to do to 6 years old girl, she say " your are not my father. I am not going to listen to you " then I told her that I am older than your father, when you father is not here , I will act like your father. she now know she is not get anything from me while she is crying. 4 years old boy sleeps in my arm some time . It is geat feeling. .............................. mike

Dear Mike, Congratulations on quitting your job! :) Things may be difficult for you now, but it sounds like quitting was the right thing to do, and I'm glad to hear you did it. (IÂm not sure itÂs my place to be proud of you, but I am :) Years ago, I was laid off from my first job after finishing school mostly because I refused to lie for my boss. He told me to tell a supplier that the check to pay them for their previous work was being sent, when we both knew that that check would not be written for at least three weeks. The point was to cajole them into doing more work for us, for which we would presumably pay them someday. I'm not a person who usually holds to deep convictions, but I looked at the boss and told him that if he wanted the supplier told that the check was being cut, he would have to tell them that himself. When the lay-off list came out four weeks later, my name was on it. It was very difficult for me at the time, but I did find another (much better) job, and over the years I've gotten to be slightly proud of finding a level below which I would not descend. I hope things work out as well or even better :) for you, Yama-san. with increased respect, - Evelyn

The company name is My Free Travel, contact number 815-741-3900 they are an A rated BBB company with call centers in Chicago, Utah and Seattle. This is a loyalty program. This is not a way to tether you to a store or gas station. In general people use one store for most of there general purchases, the same with fuel. I always go to the Hess garage on the way to work. We always shop at Stop and Shop for general goods for our classes. We use this promotion program in our cooking school we also gave it to all friends and family. I too thought it was a scam, but I relented and made the $20.00 payment, and so far it works. we have gotten more money back than the $20 we paid out so I see it as a positive. The only reason I decided to do this was because it works in our school. As most, who have made purchases from Eurostoves, knows we are very price competitive, but with this program it offers a little bit more for our customers who want to claim some money back. I look at it this way... if you are going to pay $3500 for a range or refrigerator from Eurostoves because we are price competitive then why not claim a little bit back. call it a rebate, discount, saving, sale whatever, its money coming back. As I say on the phone to customers if you only claim it back 4 times that's $200 back, if you don't want to do it and you are still making the purchase from Eurostoves then give it to your church, friend, family member who may be happy to get $50 a month back for nothing or claim as much money back as you can, its you call. This promotion does not come from any manufacture. The norm for manufactures money back programs is maybe $100. This is a thank you from Eurostoves for purchasing from us. Use it or give it away. Finally i am very realistic and honest when speaking to people on the phone or in the store, what i say is " i don't know how they make money, i don't care all i know is that so long as they are in business i am going to milk it for all i can, if you get $200 back and they go bankrupt or you decide its not worth the time then you got $200 for NOTHING. If you do it every month and you get $1200 back that is fantastic." A few years ago we sent all our customers who purchased a bluestar range a Wok just before Christmas, another year we sent customers a knife set, these were thank you gifts for purchasing from Eurostoves, you could use them or give them away the choice was down to the customer I recall a few years ago my Father went to his bank in the UK to make a deposit, it was the Banks birthday so they were giving the first 10 customers of the day a free camera, my father was customer number 10, he was offered the camera and amazingly in my mind he refused it and said give it to the guy behind him. He did not want the camera but still banks with the same bank today. What i am saying is if this promo is for you fine if not then the sale will come down to knowledge, price and service.