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Monday;

These days I tend to cook simply like, grilling, frying, and  simmering with slow cooker. I have some recipe books, and I "was " a fun of some cooking sites. But these days, I just cook simply.

In the morning it was the day I could hear my mother's voice through my brother's phone. He goes to the hospital to see my Mom online. It was scheduled to start 10:00, but as usual it was late. Anyway I could talk with my Mom. She was fine.

Then I called to my daughter and told the situation.

In the afternoon I went to see a dentist because my gum got swollen.

Tuesday, I sautéed pork. The main seemed to be pork, but not. The main was SHISO-leaves. I got lots of fresh SHISO-leaves. They are Japanese herb. 

  

Wednesday; I could go to the gym to do 30 minute exercise.

This month I only went there 4 times. Do I waste of money???? Or only am I lazy?

  

I cooked beef and vegetables. According to the newspaper, the price of imported beef is extremely going up Because of drought in Australia. Well compared with domestic beef price, it is still inexpensive.

Thursday, it was the day of my blood test at hospital. I have a trouble with high LDL and so on. So I take blood test every four months. Unfortunately (or as I expected), the data wasn't improved. Doctor didn't recommend me take medicine, --- he "encouraged" me to do more exercise.

Then we had brunch at a café --I know it was not so good for my LDL.

These days this café gets popularity with special fried chi ken. So We bought some for our snack.

Friday, yesterday I had "too" much meat, so I bought SASHIMI and make TSUNA-bowl.

These days weather is really unstable. It brings me headache. I sometimes take pain killer. But I like to use some aroma. So I went to a big mall to get some kinds of aroma oil. Going to a big mall and buying some good aroma oil made me feel a little bit rich.

 

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Still now, my mother is in hospital. She is fine. According to the hospital information, her Alzheimer's symptoms hasn't progressed, and she also takes strength training every day. 

Monday; Yuki and I went here and there to do errands. Though lunch time came, we didn't want to have lunch outside. we bought rice box at a convenience store. To tell the truth, though I wanted to buy takeout lunch at a café, he wanted to eat a specialty at a convenience store. These days a particular kinds of noodles are only dealt with convince stores. It was all right.  Because in the list of errands of the day , going to my favorite Japanese sweet shop was included. Since the day before the day they have started to sell new type of sweet. we bought just one, because it was enough half size for two of us. We had it for our tea time.

Tuesday; According to the weather report, rainy season didn't come yet. But it looked like rainy season. I try our laundry in the room. Probably a new errand is added to Yuki's role ---- going to a coin laundry nearby.

Wednesday, it was raining a little. Yuki went playing golf. I went to the gym to do ３0 minute exercise.

Thursday,  As soon as we got up, we went driving. In the radio I heard "only this week you can see full of flowers of handkerchief tree". I know the name of it, but we haven't seen one.  So we went driving. We came back past noon. But this time we had lunch on the way home.

We enjoyed the tree and other plants at NIKKO botanical garden. And we also dropped by a Japanese incense stick factory which has a long history. I read an article about the factory on the newspaper and clipped the report and save it.

Friday; it was really cold day. I turned on the heater. It was a correct choice to drive the day before.

 

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We had a five-day holiday called Golden week holiday, though for two of us it didn't have a big difference except Yuki's tennis activity was off. So he went fishing in the morning during the holiday.

Monday

It was the same for the last Monday. I cooked fried noodle.

Fried noodle is the easiest and most quick way to use and consume lots of vegetables. I got three heads  of lettuce. So I fried one head of them with fried noodle.

We also went to some interior stores to get the latest issue of a kind of local free paper.

Because my daughter is featured.

The day of SYOUBU (Japanese iris), peek at a stylish magazine through the window

Tuesday

These are fired squid, probably ring shaped fried squid  is more popular as fried calamari.

Each of us used different sauce. So Yuki prepared 6 kinds of sauce for our squid.




Koinobori (flying carp); preparing 6 kinds of sauce, fried calamari


Wednesday

We bought domestic beef at a nearby supermarket. It was on sale at half price.

It was the last day of the holiday, suddenly it got cold. I was wearing a sweater.

Kashiwa-dimpling; under the watchful eye of her son, one bite

Thursday

It suddenly got warm again. Yuki bought a box of his favorite noodle. Because it must be difficult to get his favorite hot noodle.

Before coming summer,  househusband's favorite  bulk shopping

Friday

On the day we were busy in the morning. My mother got ill suddenly. So we constantly talk with my mom, and also contacted to some people. Fortunately she got  better. Her symptom of Alzheimer hasn't progressed than we thought. However her physical ability has weaken faster than we expected.

say "ice-cream", mom wake up, with smile

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Monday

I cooled fried noodle with a big pan.

In the morning I went to the gym to do exercise. It was for the first time in a week.

In the afternoon I dropped by one of my neighbor's house. An elderly woman lives alone. She seemed to hurt her back. So I bought back recycled garbage which was going to be taken out the next morning. She is a member of my laughter clubs though the activity has not restarted yet.

I also cooked KIRIBOSHI daikon which is simmered shredded carrots and dried DAIKON seasoned with soy sauce.

Spring evening, drop by a neighbor's house, reflect my elderly Mom

Tuesday

Our breakfast was hot sandwiches which inside was "the" rest of yesterday'sfried noodle.

I went to a nearby supermarket, and bought delicatessen "fried chiken".

A swallow without flattering its winds   float and fly away

Wednesday

I grabbed these pre-cooked food.

Something happens to my Mom every day.

On this day she fell down and couldn't get up by herself. Luckily her daughter in-law M (her youngest son's wife who lives next to door) stayed home. I gave a call to her and she came. HOWEVER unfortunately my mom was too heavy for her to get my mom up. M and I were having a trouble. Another luck came. The regular Food delivery man visited my mom's house. He usually put the delivery food outside without notice. But on the day he heard some people's voice, so he rang the door bell.

And he helped my Mom and M to get my Mom up.

Well, As soon as my Mom got up, she said "I'm very tired. I want some sweet".

I wanted to say "you take the cake"

A calm spring day; even though fall and leave sitting, asking sweets

Thursday

To tell the truth, the day before, she fell twice. Luckily she was fine. I was consulting with her care manager in the morning.

Yuki bought KFC. KFC is oily to me, but sometimes it gives me energy.

spring with sorrow, regardless of my age, grab meat

Friday

This is the last big fried TOFU, called Ganmodogi.  They were given from my neighbor. They are specialty in MOKA city. We might go buy these ones during this big holiday.
Wearing mules observe a shoot cutting while weeding around