Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Good morning 0108

 

by Yuki 
In this area, school has started. Today I am going to hold a zoom meeting of reading English picture books. But unfortunately the other main member won’t be able to join it. So I’m sure the meeting is formed or not. If no one attends, it will become my study time of English.

Yesterday it was the first time for Yuki to play tennis. His pedometer showed 6500 steps. He plays tennis with his pedometer. I went to the gym. My pedometer showed 3200steps. I don’t exercise with my pedometer. 


Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Good morning 0107

 

By Yuki

Yesterday it was a really cold day. But fortunately it didn’t snow, it was raining. 

Though today it is cloudy, it is not so colder than yesterday.  Yuki is going to play tennis, depended on the situation of the tennis coat.

I think I will go to the gym, after I call to my friend. If the chatting takes  long, I will give up going to the gym. 

My resolution of this year is “doing more  exercise “. This year has just started.



Monday, January 06, 2025

Good morning 0106

 

Good morning.  New year’s holiday is finished. It is a regular Monday. 

Yesterday we “climbed “ the small mountain to visit a shrine from the parking lot in the half way up the mountain. (It is mostly on the top of the mountain. Some people were climbing the mountain from the base of the mountain. )

In the morning we do some paperwork. In the afternoon we go to a clinic. Yuki has no tennis meeting on Mondays. 

When Yuki was a businessman, we didn’t do such paperwork. Now we are able to some kinds of deduction thankfully. But we need some procedures. In my mother’s case, my two brothers did them. In my mother in law’s case, Yuki’s elder brother does them.( though it causes some troubles.)

We often  hear the words like paperless, cashless, simple procedure, etc.

But anyway as of now we need lots of paperwork, and need to go to public office, though we know it became  easier than 10 years ago. 


Sunday, January 05, 2025

Lunch diary 0104

 

Good morning. It is the first usual Sunday, though for many people it is the last day of new year’s holidays. Unfortunately Yuki’s tennis is canceled because of lack of members. 

We might go visiting a shrine in a small mountain. It is sunny, but it is cold. Yesterday we were going to go there. But we didn’t, because of the snow. Once we didn’t , it is difficult to determine to go out to a cold place. 

Yesterday, I got two calls from friends who live another prefectures. It was the first time to talk one of them in year. It means once a year we talk. Long chatting, long chatting. I was really busy and satisfied in yesterday’s afternoon.

Yuki was also busy. Because one of his electric gadgets (I don’t know what it is) didn’t work well. He wrestled against the problem. And—— the gadget in his gadget box. He says it is for when something happens. I think it is just a junk box. 

Additionally I keep a clothes box for when something happens. He says it is just a clothes junk box. (Probably he is right. The clothes in a box has probably no chance to be put on. So I sometimes organize them and discard some. And when I organize my clothes , once I put clothes probably I won’t put on onto the box.)

By Yuki



Saturday, January 04, 2025

Good morning 0104

 

By Yuki

We had snow last night, though it was a little. 

Yesterday a lady who lives nearby visited us, and we talked a lot. 

I also finished drawing picture cards of this month, next week I will go to a public community center and hand them in. The cards are sent to the elderly who live alone in this community.

Today we are going to a shrine in a small mountain,  but now we are thinking. Yuki’s car wears winter tires. So roads are all right.  But the walking pathway to the main  shrine might not be in a good condition. 





Friday, January 03, 2025

Good morning 0103

 

By Yuki

It is the last day of  New Year’s holiday. Some people are still in their holiday because the weekend comes.
Tomorrow my gym opens in the morning, probably I won’t go.
Yuki’s tennis is still closed.
And public libraries are open. 

Yesterday, we went to visit a nearby shrine again. We brought the amulets and charms of the last year back. In Japan we think many people don’t throw hem away because we think they are holy items. At shrines, Shinto priests burn them with praying.

Today we have no schedule again. Our washing machine is washing our  bedclothes.



Thursday, January 02, 2025

Good morning 0102

 

 By Yuki

It is the second day. Our party finished. It is a quiet day. No tennis, no gym. We will spend today lazily, after usual morning errands. 
The food we prepared for yesterday’s party was all gone. I am happy and really surprised. It was the first time to cook for 6 people in (probably) a year.
Before corona pandemic I used to hold such a party. But now than I expected it took a lot of time including setting up the table. 
In a good meaning and a bad meaning I was tired.