9月8日　鶴見区区民祭りに須坂市出展。わたしも出店。
須坂市ここにあり、というのを宣伝してこようじゃありませんか。
おやき、栗中華はいうに及ばず、ナガノパープルに巨峰も
販売します。早いもの勝ちです。ワインも楽しめます。

Suzaka City will be participating in the Osaka Tsurumi Ward
Festival on September 8. I will be there, too with
my wines. We are ready to promote Suzaka in Osaka area.

You can try our soul food Oyaki, Chestnut Sweet, the
famous Nagano Purple grapes as well as Kyoho grapes.
You can sip my wines, too. Why don't you come and
try the taste of north of Shinshu?

葡萄栽培、ワインつくり、スパークリングワインつくり
の技術を身につけて将来独立したいという方募集中です。

同時にショップでの販売員さんも募集中です。

詳しくはハローワークへ。

We will wel come those who want to grow grapes, make still wines
and sparkling wines, and those who want to start own vineyards
or winery in the future.

We are also wanting whose who want to work at our cellar door
shop.

Please contact Hello Work for details.

午前中羽田空港から田中さんが電話をくれた。
いよいよ奄美大島に旅立っていく。齢60にして
の移住。その決意は何年も前から聞いていた。
その日が来たのだ。

奄美大島に完全に移住して農業をやるのだと熱い
胸の内を会うたびに語っていた。

田中さんが銀座のテーラーにカッターとして
働いていた時からのお付き合い。｢楠君、いいものを
身につけなきゃだめだよ｣と東京でサラリーマン生活を
始めたころの田舎出の私に身につけるものの大切さ
を教えてくれた。

私が前の会社をやめた時、たまたま同じ週に田中さんも
会社を辞め介護の道へ。｢楠君、俺も会社を辞めたよ｣と
電話をくれた。

｢いよいよ出発だよ｣と、田中さんにとっては3度目か
4度目の挑戦。次に会うときには真っ黒になって、
一層自信をみなぎらせているんだろうな。

グッドラック、そして健康で充実した人生を！

Tanaka san rang me up from Haneda Airport this
morning. He was about to leave for Amami Oshima Island
at the age of 60. The day has come which he repeatedly
told me whenever we had met.

He always told his enthusiasm in life and agriculture in Amami
Oshima Island.

I have known him for long time since we had met at the time when
he was working as a cutter at a made-to-order tailor in Ginza.
I started my life in Tokyo after university and he taught me
about how important the wearing items like suits, tie, shoes,
bags, watches, etc.,

In the same week when I quit the company he called me saying that
He also quit his company. He moved on to care business which was not
so popular as it is today.

Today he said,"Now I am leaving as I used to say." This is his third
or fourth challenge in his life. I wish him good luck. Next time when
I meet him, he will be tanned and full of confidence for sure.

Good luck and good health, Tanaka san. I wish your success and good
life there.

今日東京から石井様がご家族で訪ねて来られました。
石井様のお父様は何と百歳！（あと半年で満百歳）
とてもかくしゃくとしておられて、足元もしっかり。
駐車場とショップの間を杖をつきつつお一人で歩いて
往復されました。思わずお願いして写真を撮らせて頂き
ました。とってもありがたい事が舞い降りたような
気持ちになりました。

何年か前にお会いしたことも覚えておられて、またびっくり。
よわいを重ねても、こうありたいと思いました。
いつまでもお元気でお過ごし下さいね。

そんなご高齢のご家族を見守る石井様ご夫妻の優しい眼差しにもうっとり
でした。避暑からの帰りにわざわざ須坂にお寄り頂きありがとうございました。
とっても嬉しかったです。

右端にお座りなのが百歳のお父様

The Ishii’s visited our winery today. Mr. Ishii’s father is six months to
go to be one hundred years old. He is very fine and healthy. He can walk
by himself with a stick to and from the parking area and the shop very fine.

I felt something very good just visiting my winery and asked to take a picture
of the family.

He remembered we had met before a few year ago which surprised me a lot and
I wished to be like him when I got aged. I wish him good health and lots of joys
in his every day life.

I was fascinated also by the warm and kind eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Ishii who look after his
old family members. I am so happy that they dropped by in Suzaka on their way back
to Tokyo after summer holidays in cool mountains in Nagano.

買い手企業が待つブースへ売り手企業が
商材を持ち込み売り込みを図るという、農産物・加工品に
限った商談会。

人気の買い手には長蛇の列。長時間ひたすら待つのみ。
地道な努力というべきか。

This is a business fair of agricultural produces whereby
the seller queues up in front of the buyer’s desk to introduce
his/her products.

There are long queues at the very popular influential buyers.
We have no ways but to wait. Just wait, wait and wait.
You can feel that just waiting is your life.