My house has an open terrace, which is called loggia. I wrote about its cleaning here two years ago. Now the stone panels of the loggia got dirty again and need cleaning, but I'm unwilling to clean them, remembering the hard work that I referred to in the blog entry. It must take 3 or 4 hours of the precious holiday. I've reached the point where I just don't care any more. However, I had been pestered to polish the stone panels by my wife.
One day I happened to watch a TV commercial of the high pressure water washing machine of KÄRCHER. My intuition urged me to get it for the cleaning of the stone panels. I had the next day off and visited a DIY store showroom. I was able to try it there and ordered it online that night.
The effectiveness was so great! The cleaning of all the stone panels were done in 15 minutes and without hard work! Incredible. I'll show you the pictures of before and after the cleaning. The ability of the machine was amazing.
As I talked about the machine to my parents, they wanted me to clean their house's fences and the floor of the parking lot. Consequently, I had to work a whole day at the end of the day.
(Vocabulary)
I've reached the point where I just don't care any more.
もうどうでもいいと思うくらいになってしまった．
http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2014/07/cleaning-stone-panels.html
It's great! I met the word "garner" for the first time. also great.
Posted by: KUMO | Aug 22, 2016 at 10:33 AM
There are many such sayings in America...all with a similar bent:
(all are my paraphrasing)...
The vigor of youth falls to the wisdom of age...every time.
Youth strives to out work, while age strives to outsmart.
While a young man following another young man's ways can become good...
only when a young man follows an aged man's ways, can he become great.
(the young and strong learning a method which must be changed as he ages...vs...an already young and strong man learning how to be efficient through intelligence in application...will have it all).
A man who has done... is a man who truly knows (Wisdom through direct experience).
There are many such sayings which are popular. Men in America generally respect older men of wisdom, of whom had garnered it, either through their direct experience, or through their superior intelligence.
Posted by: Shiroi Tora | Aug 20, 2016 at 09:22 AM
Thank you for your comment. Is this a proverb or something like that?
Anyway, I went for a drive to Kyushu for three days. I'll write about it.
Posted by: KUMO | Aug 20, 2016 at 08:30 AM
Bravo. A man matures when he realizes to work smarter, and not harder. :)
Posted by: Shiroi Tora | Aug 12, 2016 at 08:32 PM