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芦花部に住んで１３年近く・・・・

かわいい「すずめ」のような

いや、可愛い❤　見たことない❤　新種かな～。

ぐらいのノリでしたが、なかなか動かないとりさんで

近くの携帯で



裏がすぐ山で、フクロウ？ミミズク？のよう「ホッホー」って聞こえるような田舎。



いやー見たことないような。可愛い鳥。


後で調べたら・・【アカヒゲ】ではないですか。ですよね。

（スズメ目ツグミ科　天然記念物　絶滅危惧種Ⅱ種）

なんか、テンション上がりましたよぉ

まだ、芦花部は自然が残ってるってことですね。




珍しい虫第二弾
：
Last 日曜日。　三男リオン君がお風呂上り、私の大きめのT-shirtをパジャマ代わりに

着たとき・・奇声をあげて泣き出した。

二の腕を刺されたと並々ならぬ声でびっくりするほど。

服を脱がして、ぱん！ぱん！はたくと

すると・・一匹の虫が出てきました。

オレンジのはち？？

私は親の仇のように、たたきましたが・・・・しぶとい蜂でした。

最後まで、前足を動かしていました。

しばらくして泣き止んだリオン君。

痛かったはず。赤くはれていました。

しかし、オレンジ色のきれいな長はち。しかしお尻には体の三分の一くらいの針が。

これか。これで刺したのか。

これもまた、初めて見た虫だったので、調べてみると。

【Trohonina　ハバチヤドリヒメバチ　】

という蜂にそっくりでした。

自然が近いといろんな虫がいるもんだ。

目とかが、黒くてただ見るだけならきれいな、愛くるしい虫～だったな。


三男に、「あの虫ね～体に卵産むんだって。体から虫が出てきたらどうする～」

そのような、ことも書かれていました。ほとんど心配はないのですが。

三男泣きそうな顔で「僕まだ小学校一年なのに、死ぬのかな～」

くくくく

可愛そうな一言。

脅してすみません。嘘だよ～。撤回しましたよ。すぐに。

そんな、こともある芦花部生活で～す。　  

I am not an expert on things nuclear. I am learning more and more, but it is a subject I did not want to have to study.

Well, I have been using a radiation tester around where I go in Amami for the past few weeks, and mostly the news is good. I mean that the levels of radiation do not seem to be very high.

I do not know what the background gamma-radiation count in Amami was before Fukushima went sky-high, but I discovered a count of 0.10 to 0.12uSv/h was a reading I would commonly get. This is kinda near the limit of how much radiation a person should expect to cope with if such a level of exposure is continued for a year.

I found I could expect a reading of up to 0.14uSv/h in places where dust had built-up.

Neither did I find any significant cause for alarm when I tested some things I found at the supermarket. The fish I checked was all right, as were the fruit and veggies. I found nothing which was more than a tiny bit over the background radiation here.

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However I tested a few things and places these past few days and I have discovered quite a few places and items which are significantly over the background gamma-count.

I tested some potting soil and it measured 0.18uSv. That's 50% over the ambient. Is this too dangerous? I cannot say because I do not know. I can only assume the contamination is from caesium, and that it should be avoided.

I only tested one brand of potting soil - it was the cheapest I could find. Perhaps other brands are less radioactive?

I read some bought pastries (flour products) at 0.16uSv/h. Again, this is not so high, but it is certainly radioactive, and as the contaminant is likely to be caesium, it should be avoided especially by children and young women.

I tested rice as well. This was the cheapest rice in the shop. My machine recorded it was radioactive to the tune of 0.14uSv/h. - My thoughts on this are that the rice is a mix of radioactive rice and non-radioactive rice so that there would be some grains of rice which would certainly present a dire threat to the health of the person who ate it.

There's been a lot of rain recently. I wanted to see if the rain brought with it any extra radioactive contamination.

I tested the sides of the roads where the water collects and discovered the new elevated reading was 0.18uSv/h. This is a big jump from the 0.14uSv/h maximum I detected a week earlier.

The middle of the roads I tested were between 0.12 & 0.14uSv/h, which is fairly similar to what it was before, but the water near the outflow of my washing machine was 0.19 to 0.2uSv/h, so my clothes have been picking up radioactive particulates from the air and the rain.

* My kitchen table was the same as it's always been, and the tester indicated it was emitting gamma radiation at a strength of 0.10 to 0.11uSv/h. (I was happy to see that).

Bon apetit!

  

Amongst doing other things tonight, I've just about finished fixing an old Suzuki Marauder 125 motorcycle. Over the past three weeks I've changed the fork seals, fixed an oil leak on the engine, replaced the headlight assembly and the instrument mounting, put on a new clutch lever and choke cable and overhauled the front disk brake.

In addition to that I've cleaned the rust off and primed and painted parts of it, riveted and welded the exhaust, and adjusted and greased everything that should move. I'll get a number plate for it tomorrow from the Town Hall and with any luck it won't be raining so I can test it to make sure everything's working well. - I like fixing things.

Maybe tomorrow night if it isn't raining I'm going to try out my homemade illuminated fishing lure. I made it from a few 'button' cells, a triple hook and a white LED. The electrical parts are surrounded by 'hot-glue," and it switches on and off by wrapping a wire dangling from the "lure" around a leg of the LED which protrudes from the glue. I wonder if it works? I want to try it at Daikuma. I've tried fishing there a few times but the only thing I have ever caught was a lionfish. I felt quite bad about eating it because lionfish are really quite beautiful.

On the desk next to me is a geiger counter. apparently the ambient gamma radiation is between 10 & 12 uSv - that's on the second floor. I shall be taking the geiger counter to the local supermarket tomorrow to see how much radiation is in the rice and the veggies. Shopping for food has become somewhat stressful recently owing to the mystery surrounding the destination of foodstuffs from Fukushima and surrounding prefectures. Unfortunately it seems the labelling system has changed and it is impossible to know with any certainty where the stuff is coming from. There are many disturbing reports of radioactively contaminated items and food finding their way even as far as Okinawa. Well I hope to be reassured when I can get out ther and test things for myself.

One good thing about the rain is that my neighbour can't keep me awake. When the weather is fine he is apt to wake up at dawn, and then hammer his last-night's beer cans flat on the concrete behind me, or he'll do some gardening such as chopping one of his trees down. The worst thing he does is to work on his car at half-past six in the morning with the car radio blaring. When the bass from his radio resonates my bedroom I have been known to bang on the wall very hard. I don't think he notices but his wife does, and she helpfully persuades him to turn the radio down or off. his turning the radio down certainly reduces his chances of being murdered.

The rain is falling heavily and steadily. It's been pouring since half past two this morning. the thunder and lightning is also constant and growling. The Japanese meteorological agency haven't posted any warnings about this weather so perhaps we don't need to worry about more flooding. However experience suggests the Japan meteorological Agency don't often get it right.

Time to turn in.

* This is the shortened version of today's post. Unfortunately I am totally inept with Japanese menus for this blog and I managed to delete my intended post.