Good morning 0623

 

by Yuki

A new week has started. Yesterday we checked our summer clothes . Mine is all right, I could put away one dress. Yuki said “it is too small”. So he is going to discard four clothes in the afternoon. It means we are going to go out for looking four his new clothes: summer shirts.

Yesterday I talked with a friend on the phone. She is older than I, but she still manages her English school. 

She lives in the next prefecture, it is too far to visit her easily. 

It is all right. If she lived within one hour distance I would often visit her to complain. Well, if I could, she must be too busy to listen to me.

After having dinner I took a walk for 15 minutes. I was surprised that how many people were walking. Though it is the wet season, it is really humid and hot. 

According to the weather forecast, this week we have rain, though it is cloudy and humid today.

Good morning 0622

 

by Yuki

It’s 7 AM. I’ll leave home in one and a half hours. Why? From this month sutra copying meeting begins at 9 o’clock.

Actually for me having low blood pressure it is a little bit difficult to do morning training. Though it is said the elderly are morning people, I am not.

Addition I am not a night person.

Yesterday a friend presented me a bunch of rhubarb. In the afternoon I am going to make candied rhubarb. It doesn’t use fire, though I have to disinfect a jar in hot boiling water.

Let’s enjoy Sunday!

Good morning 0621

by Yuki

Yesterday  the laughter yoga meeting was fun. I am in my 60’s. Another one is in her 70’s. And the others are in their 80’s. At first we talk our complaints —— all of them “my …….s hurt!” All of them go to an orthopedic clinic as a usual thing. Well I know I myself am strange why I am included.

Then to rewrite negative things into positive things, we talk what was good, what made us happy, what we appreciated in this month.

Two each women  say “I could visit my friend.” Their friends live in the same city but it is far to go  on foot. Going there by bus is troublesome. They have to walk to the bus stop. They have to change the bus. The bus comes once an hour.  Going there by taxi is, they say, “Too expensive”. 

This time each of them found a person who took them by car. One is her friend’s friend’s husband. 

The other is her friend’s nephew.

Then we played cards, and did yoga breathing.

Good morning 0620

 

by Yuki

Yesterday Yuki could play golf. He was so exhausted that he went to bed earlier than usual. Though he doesn’t have much energy as he used to, he still enjoy sports. It is a good thing. 

I went to an eye clicking in the morning. It was really crowded. I was sitting for long hours. In the evening I did one circuit exercise at the gym, but my back hurt at night. I put a patch on my back. 

I don’t know which gave my back damage, sitting for long hours or just light 10 minute exercise (most of time I was stomping lightly on the walking board skipping half of machines ).

Today I hold a laughter yoga meeting. In the evening we go to a dental clinic. 

Good morning 0619

 

by Yuki

Yuki has already left. Why? To play golf. Probably it is the first time for him to play golf  this year. He seems to go through his side effect tunnel. It was longer this time. 

“Thankfully” yesterday I was presented seasonal vegetables : summer bamboo and Japanese pepper berries. To tell the truth these days hot and humid days continue, so I didn’t want to cook. Actually I bought delicatessen for our dinner. 

But I couldn’t waste it. And I know it is very important to cook as fast as we possible when we dig or pick them. 

I cooked. 

Good morning 0618

 

by Yuki

We’ve already finished our breakfast. It was 40 minute earlier. Why?

Today Yuki gets a CT in the afternoon. He has to finish lunch two hours before it. It means our lunchtime before 11 a.m.  There are some cafes which serve “morning set. “For me”, it is fun. So we got earlier than usual and had early breakfast. 

Yesterday I did one circuit  exercise. It troll about 20 minutes. I skipped a half of machines, instead workout using them, I was walking in place. Additionally when I was at the gym, Yuki bought 2 summer pants as his lounge wear at home.

Good morning 0617

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday, it took longer getting physical therapy and seeing the doctors at the orthopedic clinic. After that we went to Yuki’s clinic as usual. I was tired. So I couldn’t go to the gym. The orthopedic doctor said “light exercise is all right”. Today I was going to do one circuit exercise in the afternoon. While I am doing, Yuki is going to “browse” his clothes at supermarket next to the gym. 

Now I wear a T-shirt. It is the first time to put on a T-shirt from early morning. Until yesterday I changed a long sleeve shirt into a T-shirt in the afternoon. Today it is already hot.  Is it the wet season?

Good morning 0616

 

A new week has started. 

My first mission of this week is going to an orthopedic clinic to get a physical therapy. Additionally in he morning Yuki has no schedule (usually on Mondays he has no tennis meeting.) he said “I will take you to the clinic. While you get it, I will be at Uniqlo clothes shop.” 

On the other hand if the doctor permit to one circuit exercise which doesn’t include ones for waist and back, I want to go to one circuit exercise in the afternoon while Yuki goes to the supermarket which has alcohol, and inexpensive clothes. (It means the clothes are cheaper thanUniqlo’s.)

Anyway today’s his condition is not so bad. I am relieved.

Good morning 0615 & lunch diary 0614

 

 by Yuki

It is Sunday, Yuki has no plans because of raining. He will go to a radium hot spring where it takes one-hour drive. He got this information from a Jazz mate. Will I? I won’t. Now I want to avoid a long (over one hour) drive. These days we often did it, and it made my sacral bone pain prolonged. 

It is good for Yuki to go out. His stress is relieved. Now his biggest stress is his mother’s inheritance issue. I thing it will take long to settle.

P.S

After updating this blog. It stopped rain. Yuki went playing tennis. And in the afternoon he will go to the hot spring. Though I think  he does too much,  I can’t stop him. For the outside he does not look good because of coughing, though he says muscle pain is reduced. 

Good morning 0614

 

by Yuki

Can you see Yuki’s photo? It is a mail box in a town. There are some popular milk farms in this town. The post box in front of the station is milk style.

I could let go two-thirds of my English picture collection books. Are my bookshelves empty? Not yet. 

Well, I forgot to tell my readers. Yesterday I updated a wrong YouTube of Yuki’s. U have already another one. Yesterday the number of the music Yuki composed exceeded the number of  Beethoven’s.

Good morning 0613

 

by Yuki

It is cloudy. Today we will go to a local community center to donate some English picture books. These days suddenly new movements to my English book collection happened. Thankfully I found three groups who want to use my collection. Yesterday I sent a cardboard box of books to a person who owns her art room.  

I also got an e-mail. During summer vacation they want to events of storytelling using English picture books. I am happy they rely on me.

Good morning 0612

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday it was a long day. 

Today it is sunny. According to the weather forecast it will be sunny or clouds for these two days.

I am thinking what were good and thankful things. 

We know a reliable lawyer, we had a good talking with him yesterday. Yuki continues getting treatments. And we had tasty sandwiches for lunch at a cafe. Thanks for the lawyer, thanks for the doctor. 

And writing this blog makes me calm. Thanks for tie visitors to my blog. 

Good morning 0611

 

by Yuki

It is rainy. The wet season (or rainy season) has started. Another stage has started. Last night Yuki talked the lawyer. 

Yesterday it was the day of Karaku. Though it was rainy, it was full.  Our audience are mainly older people than us, though some of them are in their 50’s or 60’s. The owner’s couple became in their late 70’s. Anyway my friend and I enjoyed at the current moment of Karaku cafe.

Good morning 0610

 

 by  Yuki

It is Tuesday, isn’t it? Today it is the day of Karaku.

My right “sacrum” hurts. Thrusday’s long drive gave me a big damage. I should get along with this pain. 

Some older friends say “welcome to our  world”.

I was going to resume exercise at gym, it was postponed. The orthopedist says “don’t walk too much”.

Well, how many steps are “too much”?

Lunch diary 0607

 

by Mieko

by Yuki

A new week has started. We are overwhelmed by many different emotions. Anyway we do what we can, and should do today. Today’s missions are going to a clinic, and “grocery shopping” (is it a mission?).

Good morning 0608

 

by Yuki

Yesterday it was the day of placing the body of Yuki’s mother in the coffin. Our daughters attend it, we also saw it through their iPhones. After each daughter went back home. I talked with each daughter. 

It was a long talking on the phone.

Though all of us have a lot of emotions, all procedures seem to go smoothly. On next Monday her (family and close relatives) funeral is going to be hold. 

Today, we will change winter carpets into summer carpets. We have to wash and dry the winter carpets at the nearest laundromat. It is the first mission of today’s.

Good morning 0607

 

by Yuki

Yesterday, Yuki’s mother passed away. She will be 97 years old in late June. Her funeral is going to hold  next Monday, but unfortunately we won’t attend it. Yuki has to take another treatment. 

Anyway fortunately we could meet her the day before yesterday. 

We are relieved to hear that she passed away calmly, and without pain.

Our daughters go and help their aunts in-law (Yuki’s elder brother’s wife). 

We really thank to our daughters.

We go to a clinic on schedule to heal his side effects  as much as possible.

Good morning 0606

 

Yesterday it was a long “drive” day. Since we drove to Tokyo last time, five months have passed. Just five months, but Yuki’s  condition has apparently changed. 

His mother was asleep. Though unfortunately we only saw her sleeping face, but she seemed to feel no pain, looked calm. Her nursing home seems to be comfortable, and care workers seem to be kind and friendly. (It was the first time for us to visit her new nursing home where she moved four months before.)

We could visit my mother’s (and my father’s & my grandparents’) grave. 

We are satisfied with doing those things. 

We are going to see Yuki’s doctor, today. In one hour we will leave home.

Good morning 0605

 

by Yuki

In one hour we will leave for Tokyo to visit Yukik’s mother. She got worse.  Tomorrow, Yuki is going to take chemotherapy, and probably he will surfer from side effects for a while. In good meaning it must be a good timing. 

Anyway we do what we can do and what we should do.

Good morning 0604

 Today in one hour, I'll go to see an orthopedic doctor and have a physical therapy. Will be able to resume workout?

Yesterday it was rainy. There was a low air pressure. Did it make me depressed?  No, it made me very sleepy. In the afternoon I was asleep while listening to the radio.

Though I had a plan,  I cancelled it.  Nowadays I have almost nothing I have to do. It makes me sometimes lazy, but it makes me less stressed.

Good morning 0603

 

 by Yuki

Yesterday we were reviewing our home documents, like passwords list, house budget, and so on. Then when we printed them out, the printer couldn’t work. We could fix it somehow. It took longer than we expected. In good meaning we could spend fulfilling afternoon.

Though it is another thing that what is a simple life, it is really difficult to have simple life.

In the evening, our next neighbor shared a watermelon to us. It was the first watermelon of this year. Unfortunately it was a cool (cold) day. We ate turning on the heater.

 

Lunch diary 0531

 

by Mieko

by Yuki

Yesterday, I did walking exercise. Though it was a good thing, I seem to walk too much. This morning my leg hurts.  The orthopedic doctor said “it is all right to start walking” . I have increased  walking. Steps little by little. Anyway today I will walk a little. 

Yuki said having breakfast “my tennis mates (in their 60’s &70’s) said “  everyone who is in our generation says somewhere hurts when we wake up in the morning.”

Two of us said “definitely”with a big laugh.

Additionally Yuki hurts his shoulder and wrist, because he played the guitar too much to join in jam session yesterday.

Good morning 0601

 

 by Yuki

June has come. 

It is cold for me, though someone says “cool”. Usually I change  winter carpets into cotton carpets, but I don’t do it yet. 

Yesterday we went to karaku cafe. I presented the owner a bag of coffee beans with whiskey flavor. The owner’s couple showed an interest to the cafe in a rural area. Karaku’s owner also took early retirement and opened his cafe with his wife, though he worked for a different company from one Yuki worked for.

When he took early retirement, it was an unusual case.  Since Karaku cafe opened about 35 years have passed.