After his wife lost her eyesight at the age of 52, this man planted a carpet of scented pink flowers outside their house to make her smile again.
Mr and Mrs Kuroki married in 1956. They had two children and settled into a happy life as dairy farmers in Shintomi Town, Japan.
It was tough work but, as they grew older, they started to plan their retirement – they were going to travel around Japan together.
But, after 30 years of marriage when Mrs Kuroki was 52-years-old, she lost her eyesight over the space of a week, due to complications with her diabetes, RocketNews24 reports.
She withdrew from life on the farm and became more and more isolated. Thinking about ways he could get friends and family to visit her each day, her husband spotted a pink shibazakura flower growing in the garden.
He realised these flowers weren’t just stunning to look at – they also had a beautiful scent.
He began to plant more of the bright pink flowers outside the house. He planted thousands of them over the next two years. In a bid to make his wife smile, he created a glorious scented carpet of pink outside their front door.
Slowly, she began to come out of the house again to enjoy the garden.
A decade on and the beautiful pink garden attracts a constant stream of visitors from surrounding towns – often around 7,000 a day in spring.
And Mrs Kuroki can often be seen walking around the garden with her husband, a huge smile on her face.
You’re welcome - and thank you for being here! If I have my way, Lemmy will be flooded with opossums, raccoons, bats, beavers, and otters. And it will be beautiful! /sheds tear
Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...
The Stormy Daniels case is also about election interference. He interfered in the election by paying to conceal critical information that may have changed voters’ minds.
Union was saved by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg. What an unbelievable battle that was, the battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable… I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, PA to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E Lee, who’s no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. “Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.” They were fighting uphill, he said. Wow, that was a big mistake. He lost his great general, and they were fighting. “Never fight uphill, me boys,” but it was too late.
The frequency range of rat hearing is approximately 250 Hz to 80 kHz with the greatest sensitivity occurring between 8 and 38 kHz (Source)
Bat echolocation calls vary in their dominant frequency approximately between 11 kHz and 212 kHz. Most insectivorous bats call with dominant frequencies between 20 kHz and 60 kHz. (Source)
As you can see, there is overlap, so I think it’s accurate to say that some rats would hear some bats depending on the species. So you are not wrong!
I stopped drinking a while ago, so I can’t answer that accurately. but check out what I found:
An extensive body of data shows concordant J-shaped associations between alcohol intake and a variety of adverse health outcomes, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, Raynaud’s phenomenon, and all-cause mortality. Light to moderate alcohol consumption (up to 1 drink daily for women and 1 or 2 drinks daily for men) is associated with cardioprotective benefits, whereas increasingly excessive consumption results in proportional worsening of outcomes.
So it sounds like 1 daily drink for me might improve the condition but more alcohol will worsen it.
A cutie in red! The girl is nice too. (lemmy.world)
A rare beauty (lemmy.world)
Is this a 16th-century smartphone? (lemmy.world)
True love knows no bounds (lemmy.world)
Here is the story.
Happy International Bat Appreciation day! (April 17th) (lemmy.world)
I wish to give this many fucks (lemmy.world)
A reptile hug (lemmy.world)
Bat Fact: Bats spread seeds as they poop (lemmy.world)
Thank your local opossum (lemmy.world)
The Daily Checkin for Wednesday April 17th - Just for Today, We are NOT Drinking!
Who will join me this Day of Hump??? :) Shout out to rosamundi for stepping in yesterday!...
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Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...
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People can’t stop cracking up over the former president’s bizarre, bumbling speech....
Some sticks are just pretty (lemmy.world)
Casually dropped this tidbit (lemmy.world)
You can read about how researchers discovered that here.
So smol (lemmy.world)
go go gadget sonar (mander.xyz)
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This is their album cover. What's the name of the band? (lemmy.world)
I have Raynaud's Syndrome. Occasionally, my fingers will lose all circulation. (lemmy.world)
The show must go on (lemmy.world)