Anyway Friday!

Since Yuki got his freedom, one week has passed. Our life style doesn't seem to change a lot, except I cook dinner for him.
I realized that rice is very useful. We have staple food ( I have just learnt this English word) , it is ri
So it is not so troublesome as long as we have cooked rice, which means I don't cook feast.
So I always set the timer of rice cooker.
And our important accompaniment is "Natto". I hear someone screaming.

It is raining now. In the morning I'm going to see a dentist.
Yuki stays home and (according to her) he is going to do music and photo creative work.
In the evening, I have lessons, and he is going to go to experimental squash practice.
At night, he is going to go out to his farewell party. He has at least more two appointments of his farewell party.

Our familiar buchter has also retired.

Yesterday Yuki and I went out to have lunch outside at a café.
They serve meat ball lunch. But this week is the last week to be served them.
The café owner and we are friends. And a butcher is also our common friend.
The butcher who is over 70 retired last month. And the meat balls are the last meat which were sold by the butcher.
The butcher was very small shop. However he survived. The reason was , probably that he had a  good skill, and he dealt with special beef.
Even though there are many small butchers, but most of them don't deal with beef, because they can't earn enough profit. Most of customers buy beef at a big meat shop, or department store.
Though some small butcher still deal with beef, but usually they sell only beef for stake.
However the butcher dealt with most of all parts of beef, and he has special customers.

But his wife and he couldn't be against his age.

The last meeting with a finacial planner

Yesterday a man came to my house. He is a financial planner. For our retirement life, we talked with him four times about our financial plan.
Yesterday it was the last meeting.
Coincidently we had an opportunity to know him through his office.
He knows Yuki's company's (welfare) system well, so it was easy to ask him about our financial situation of his retirement life.
At the first meeting  we looked over our assets (including our saving). And he started to think about 60 of his retirement age. (Probably, I'm a so good wife that I saved enough (I don't think so) money for his regular (I think early) retirement.

The next meeting we tried to budget schedule of our retirement life over next about 30 decades.
We were really surprised that we should think about our 30 year-life, nowadays. Actually his mother still lives actively, though she is 92 years old.
And we were also surprised that we would need lots of money than we expected. To tell the truth he reconsidered whether he would retire regularly or  extend his retirement. And he decided to life frugally .
At that time I was really full of anxiety. We reconsidered our usual life.

The third meeting we made our saving schedule including our prospected outcome. I have kept our household accounts. It was really helpful.

And at the last meeting we thought about investment management.
However we decided not to do it.
It is our lifestyle.

Yuki's schedul of this week

It is the second day of Yuki's long vacation.
In 20 minutes I hold a laughter yoga meeting at home, so he has already gone out. Where?
He joined a tennis practice.
Last Sunday he immediately contacted to his senior friends.
Monday, he went out to play golf.
Tuesday, he went out to play tennis.
Wednesday, --- no plan, though I have lessons from the afternoon to the night. And he has his farewell party at night.
Thursday, probably he goes out to play tennis though it seems to be rainy.
Friday, he is going to take squash experimental practice, and he has another farewell party at night.

He also contacted with a Jazz band.

I said to him "don't forget please, our family event is a high priority."
However it is better to have many things for him to do than to have nothing.

Yuki's retirement life has started.

Last Friday, he got home with this bunch of flower around 6 PM, and as soon as he got home, he left out again to join his farewell party.
We spent usual weekend.

And Monday has come.
I made usual breakfast for two of us, and ---he took out the garbage, then he went out to play golf.
Though it is a usual weekday, coincidently he found a friend who took a day-off, and went out to play golf.

Seemingly our life doesn't change so much.
It is right.

Well, last week I was really tired or exhausted after the trip with my mother.
As I wrote on my blog, she couldn't lots of things more than I expected. It brought me lots of anxiety. I talked with my brothers on the phone, I asked some advice from an elderly center on the phone. (I was going to visit the center near my mother's house, but luckily, they talked a lot with me on the phone.)
But the important thing is "she still can do lots of things by herself, and spend days by herself.".

There are only three days!

Obon vacation finished. And Only three days including today are left --- Yuki commute his office regularly. Our (happy) golden life is just around the corner.

However, anyway our new life seems to start busily.

This weekend, we took my mother to Hakone.
Since we went on a trip with her, three years passed.
And this time we found she cannot more things than we expected.
I took her to an art museum. There she used a wheel chair for the first time
Against our expectation, she "enjoyed" using a wheel chair.

 

She made Haiku with me.

A chorus of cicadas  Enjoy getting old In a wheel chair

 

After the trip, I called a city division of the support for the elderly in her living area.

I thought I had to visit there directly, but I could talk a lot about the support system on the phone.

 

We seem to prepare necessary matters  little by little  for her to live easily her elderly life.

 

In two weeks, we will take my mother-in-law to the same place.

 



walking diary 0804

Since last week, I haven't done walking exercise because of this heat.

So this diary was about two weeks ago.

At that time we had still rainy days.

 

 

I saw these sunflowers in a field, There was no weed. It means the owner left these sunflowers purposely.

On the day I did volunteer reading of English picture books at the library.

Sunflowers; Enjoy foreign letters  With picture books

 

 

Can you see petunias covered with weeds?

In the field Not only weeds; Summer sky

 

What a wonderful lily!

Do you know the name. It is Star Gazal, a kind of oriental hybrid lilies.

This day I talked with my mother on the phone for more than one hour.

How stubborn! Hear laughing at the end;  big thunder clouds.

 

 

Suddenly gray clouds appeared.

In a hurry  Get through all errands outside ; Cold sweet beans jelly

 

It was another day. On the day while I was walking I heard thunder.

Thunder rumbling Walk back home safely ; Pink silk tree

 

lunch diary 804

Though it is in the middle of the second week of August, let me tell you my lunch diary of last week.



Monday, Yuki took a day-off.
He started to consume his paid leaves.
Karasawa shiren Can't take a picture of buzzing; Sprouts of Japanese ginger




Tuesday, it was too hot. I bought croquets of delicatessen.
Delicatessen Avoid me from the oven: boiling summer



Wednesday, in the morning I joined my friend's workshop.
Then I had lunch with her. I was going to eat cold noodle, but it was "cold" in the restaurant, so I ate hot noodle with lots of vegetables.
She is 10 years younger than me, but we can "pursue" the same interest. It is fun.
Forward together Keep the age difference; Sweet fish in the river



Thursday, I made fried rice noodle.
The last night Yuki and I had a quarrel, which is not unusual. Why? Of course our retirement budget schedule.
After quarrel usual day comes; Freshly washed hair

Well, "freshly washed hair" is a seasonal word in summer.
Nowadays, morning shower is usual especially for young people.
But probably until 10 or 20 years ago, it was  unusual, but in summer it was also hot, so many people washed the hair after they got up.



Friday, I got fresh sweet fish a lot, and cooked them to make

At the gym No change of room temperature; KANRONI of sweet fish

going out downtown

Last weekend, we went out downtown to enjoy Japanese comedy stage "rakugo" .
The stage is held once a month at a shrine.
For previous two months we couldn't go, but this time we could go there.




This time it was not RAKUGO, NAGAUTA stage was hold
.
NAGAUTA is a kind of music, and it is also used with RAKUGO as a background music.

It cost 2000 yen for two adults.
This time we parked our car at a parking lot of the city hall. So we didn't need pay transportation.
(When we go there by bus, it cost 440 there and back for one person)

We walked 5200 steps there and back  from the parking lot to the shrine
Well, on the way to the parking lot, we dropped by a shoe shop. Yuki bought a pair of walking shoes.
It cost 1100 yen.
And -- unfortunately I dropped my sun arm cover. Of course I bought a new pair. It cost 580 yen,

So it cost about 3600 yen including money offering ( a kind of donation to shrine).


From now on, everyday is holiday for us, of course we are going to enjoy our days. But we also reconsider our daily cost.

A seasonal word 0801 swimming in the ocean

 

As soon as the lingering rainy season finished, the tough humid summer started.

Usually I don't take a shower or take a bath in the morning, but against this tough weather





 I needed to take a bath in the morning after finishing morning chores.


Sunlight penetrates Bathing in a hot tub ; Summer ocean

I'll introduce some famous Haiku.

It is a summer Haiku. The tough hot summer is necessary to dry Konb seaweeds on the beach, but for flowers it is too bad to survive.

Getting cloudy On the beach where Konb (seaweeds) are dried  Relieves a wild chrysanthemum

Star festival of July 7th, is a seasonal word of autumn in Haiku world.
On July 7th, it is the day loves meet once a year on the milky way. It is the happiest time to meet, but it is the worst time to say good bye.
However a few months pass, and autumn comes, such passion has already gone and have spent usual calm or busy days.


Star festival; though the hair is still wet, don't mind meeting you


It is a simple Haiku for summer.
Loss of weight in summer; I don't like, what I dislike

It is a simple Haiku for autumn.
Start turning red; if you are my Romeo, come in formal wear

Both of the are written by the same female poet.
She is very famous for her strong, selfish character as if she acted like a queen.