一昨日朝は多賀大社脇の車戸川の川ざらいの日で、町内の七人ほどが長靴を履き熊手などを持って神社の正面右、絵馬通りが始まるところから川に降りて川下へと川底をかいて掃除しました。太閤橋の辺りは日頃神社の方が掃除してくださっているので泥もなく水も澄んできれいです。神社の橋の下をくぐれるのは私たち本町に住むものの特権。頭を低くして石橋下の浅い流れの中を進む時、何だかドキドキします。
作業が終わって大急ぎでうちへ帰って中断していたイザナミランチの支度を続行。今日の献立は、わかめとキュウリの酢の物、トマトサラダ、チキンとオレンジの和物、ほうれん草ポパイサラダ、きんぴらごぼう、煮込みハンバーグ、人参とポテトのグラッセ、赤飯、それにエビとたけのこの吸い物でした。店内で召し上がってくださった方、お持ち帰りになった方、皆様ありがとうございました！
It was a cleaning day of the stream which runs beside Taga Taisha. Seven people including me from my neighborhood, putting long shoes on and carrying rakes, went down to the stream on the right of the main gate of the shrine to clean the downstream. Around the area of the arched stone bridge, the water was clean with no mud because people from the shrine were cleaning everyday. It is a privilege for us who are living in the neighborhood of the shrine to go under the bridges in order to clean the stream. When I lowered my head and went through the stream which has shallow water, I was excited.
After the work was over, I rushed to my home and continued my work, which is preparation for making IZANAMI Lunch. The menus were the following: vinegared seaweed and cucumber, tomato salad, chichen and orange dressed with sauce, spinach and bacon with sauce, burdock roots and carrot cooked in soy sauce and sugar, stewed hamburger, carrot and potato glacé and clear Japanese soup. We very much appreciated both customers who had lunch at the cafe and those who requested take away for home.
