お風呂のシャワーホースとヘッドを買い替えるために練馬のホムセンへ行ったら、ついでに便利グッズを見かけました。エアコンのリモコンです。私はついバッテリーを中に入れたまま一年中 放置するので、うち１個のマイナス極側のバネが錆びて使えなくなってしまいました。もし将来どれも同じように錆びてしまったらエアコン自体が使えなくなる、と不安でした。が、これがあればその心配も不要です。
When I went to a home depo in Nerima in order to buy a new shower hose and head, I found this very useful looking thing. It is a replacement remote controller for air conditioners. I often forget to remove the batteries inside during seasons when I do not need the AC. I found one of the remote controllers no longer usable due to the springs gone rusty from old batteries. I was getting worried that if all other remote controllers were broken, I would not be able to use the AC. Now that I found this product, I no longer have to worry about it.
主要メーカー16社のエアコンに使えるそうです。うちのエアコンは全て日立の同一機種で、製造年も余裕で該当するので１個買ってみました。
This generic remote controller is usable for the major 16 manufacturers in Japan. All my ACs were made by Hitachi, and the year of manufacturing is well after the starting year indicated on the list.
右側のが純正品で、見るからに古ぼけています。
It is so reassuring to have a product like this - the one on the right is Hitachi's own.
２階バルコニーの暑さで一旦は瀕死状態になっていた、早生ミカンの「日南の姫」を今年の春に庭に降ろしてダメモトの鬼剪定しました。それが復活してきて、実も10個+ 生っています。苗を買ったとき以来、同じ10号鉢に植えっぱなしで根っこがキツキツなので、来年の春に植え直しする予定です。
A very early ripening tangerine cultivar, Hinano-Hime, nearly died on the upstairs balcony a few years ago, since it got too hot and sunny during summer. I brought it down and pruned the whole tree to almost nothing in spring this year. It has made a remarkable recovery and now has more than 10 fruits growing on it. Since buying this plant as a newly grafted tree, it has been in this pot all along. The pot is getting really tight with the roots. Seeing the recovery, I am going to repot the plant next year.
こんなに元気になるとは予想外でした。
I never thought it would recover this much.
ホムセンまでチャリを飛ばして行ったのは昼食後の酷暑の中でしたが、夕方散歩のときは曇っていて少しはマシでした。茂呂山公園へ上がると、垣根が刈られた後で、まるで夏の終わりの頃のような景色でした。
When I went to the home depo on my bicycle just after lunch, it was unbelievably hot, but It was much more bearable in the evening. We went to the Moroyama Park. The hedge row had just been trimmed - or mowed like lawn - and looked like the end of summer.
モミジの林にほっとします。
It was relaxing to walk through the maple woods.
涼しい風が下から吹き上げてきて、過ごし易かったです。
We enjoyed the cool evening breeze blowing from the lower ground.
