Tomatoes and the typhoon
Presently I’m watching the news to see where the latest typhoon is headed. Over the past couple of days it has moved up from Okinawa and is now passing over Kagoshima at the bottom of the island of Kyūshū. It is expected to continue east over Shikoku towards Tokyo, good distance south of us. I guessed wrong about tsuyu (the rainy season) being behind us the time we returned to Japan. There has not been a day without heavy rain and strong wind since.
As a precaution, I decided to run the gauntlet and recover the ripe and almost ripe tomatoes, the cucumbers and aubergines.
Running up and down the rows, returning to the place a handful in a bowl, against the elements seemed comparable to a Japanese endurance game. Perhaps the star prize was an exotic red p-man.
