Good morning 0225

 

The top of the newspapers is covered with lots of concerns.

 Anyway it is the last weekday, it is the day some students to come.I have only two lessons left. I won’t close my school, yet. 

But——

Anyway, though the road in front of my house  comes to dead end,  I put this board in front of my house.

Good morning 0224

 

Hot sandwiches again. Yesterday I fried beef and asparagus. The rest is inside of the hot sandwiches. 

According to the weather report this cold weather will be end on this weekend. And spring weather will come with pollen.

Any what I should do is to keep exercise.  To tell the truth it is a little bit difficult to enjoy it, but anyway I try to keep it, because I want to keep in a good shape including comfortable dozing.

Good morning 0223

 

It is sunny, and a holiday.  I attend a brief meeting in the morning, and in i he evening I have lessons, so for me I am busier than usual Wednesday’s．　

Yesterday I wore my casual kimono at home i the afternoon. I showed me to a fried via Skype, and got some advices, because she is an expert of traditional Japanese dance. 

Probably I won’t go out in such casual kimono, but I cannot discard them yet. Anyway I try to put them all in turn. 

Good morning 0222

 Today, it is 2022/02/22、number 2s are in line. 

I go to the gym, to tell the truth it is the first time in a week, though I keep walking exercise. 

I have started revision haiku books published by my mother personally. 

I will combine her haiku adding my haiku looking  back our days .

The first haiku oh mother was written in her 60’s. So now finally I will be able to understand what she felt and saw at that time.

Good morning 0221

 

Monday has started.

In the morning, I go to a clinic and get regular medicine, then we are going to a department where a special fair, Hokkaido food fair, is held. I really want a special local sweet.

Yuki wants seafoods, —- depends on the price. 

lunch diary 0219

Monday

It was Valentine's Day. We got lots of chocolate to exchange with our friends. So I didn't need to present special one. In stead of it, I accepted his offer to have  "Yokohama Ramen", which is famous with really thick and oily soup.

Tuesday

The weather is so-so, it is cold. My husband got a haircut. He got really short hair. It looks wonderful and  really cleanliness.

Wednesday

 I forgot to report that I got a sheet of stamps stamp sheet to win the  New Year's lottery post cards. I  also had my hair cut at my friend's beauty salon today.

Thursday

In my regular medical examination, arteriosclerosis is also high, but I haven't been prescribed any medicine. Lucky me. So to celebrate and inspire me to keep walking exercise, we had Tonakatsu feast. Is it all right to eat oily pork cutlet?

Friday

Simple sukiyaki bowl .I prepared it for lunch, but Yuki didn't come back on time because of "overtime tennis". The weather seems to be bad on this weekend, so we went to the library to borrow many books beforehand in the afternoon. 

Good morning 0219

 

It is “still” cloudy, doesn’t start snowing. In the morning probably I will do walking exercise.

We read the news “ prices of most of foods are getting higher”, but  we hadn’t felt it directly until yesterday. Yesterday on the way home from the library we dropped by a bakery. Apparently the cost of all bread got 10%higher, though we bought some.

Good morning 0218

 

In a row it is also clinic’s day today, to the dentist.,

According to the weather report this weekend it seems to snow, so after lunch at home, we will go to the library to return books and borrow new ones. 

My friend, who and I are around the same age, stopped cursing of her cancer. So far she is fine, but we know she apparently has started counting  her living days.

Just being alive is a tremendous blessing.

Good afternoon 0217

 

Now I returned home from the hospital. Fortunately I avoided taking medicine constantly.  The cholesterol and " arteriosclerosis" don't progress, though the score keeps high in a bad meaning. 

Anyway skipping breakfast I went to the hospital. After I got blood check, I had breakfast alone at the hospital calmly.

Then I had a ultrasonography eco, and saw the doctor.

Good morning 0216

 

Today’s breakfast it the rest of yesterday’s “homemade” pizza.

In the morning I will walk to my friend’s house to get a haircut.

Yesterday I hold a zoom meeting with my volunteer group members, though only three including me. Unfortunately our volunteer activity won’t start in April. 

I need something to inspire me. 

 Yesterday, I had made “ progressive additional lenses” at a glasses shop. It will be sent in a week. Now, I have five glasses, usual grasses  for driving, bifocals for my usual days, grasses with progressive power lenses for near version for lessons, or reading music scores, and grasses with progressive additional lens for my personal computer, and a kind of reading grasses. Yuki has four ones, usual two pairs for driving, and for  playing golf to watch small balls, grasses with progressive power lenses for near version to watch TV, and a kind of reading glasses.

Good morning 0214

 

Happy Valentines’Day.

Thankfully, we have enough chocolate. 

In the morning we go to the mall at the station to make new glasses for me, to use at computer. Not reading glasses.

Then we go to the city hall to submit documents, so probably we have lunch outside 

Luckily today it seems sunny, though it is still cloudy now.

lunch diary 0212

Monday

We went out to a shrine a little far away and had lunch  at "Katsuya" on our way home. It cost 1200yen for two of us, very reasonable price, wasn't it?  I walked home from there to digest my lunch.

Tuesday

I stirred turnip and beef. It was the day of my performance at Karaku cafe.  Though we are still in the pandemic, thankfully I can continue the performance once a month.

Wednesday

It's been 10 years since I started going to the gym. The 60th birthday has passed. Next is Kouki, in my 70's, if I keep it on.

Thursday

It really snowed.  This was the first time in this winter. But fortunately it didn't pile up. Well. For the first time, I  post my HAIKU to a meeting online.

Friday

It was a holiday. Many people were walking. There was still snow on the soil, so some kids were playing with snow.

Good morning 0212

It is Saturday, snow did,t pile up, so probably Yuki will e able to play tennis this morning.

Anyway Saturday’s first task of us is vacuuming rooms  in our house. 

I made homemade chocolate with my sugared Yuzu citron, and handed them to some friends and neighbors to celebrate early Valentines Day.

Good morning 0211

Snow didn’t pile up, how lucky!

Today, it is a holiday. For me it is a usual day, two students come in turn. For Yuki, unfortunately he doesn’t have any plans to play tennis, if he had one, it would be impossible because of yesterday’s snow. He has already borrowed lots of jazz music magazines at the library, so he is going to be absorbed into them.

 

Good morning 021

 

Weather forecast is right, this time. 

It is snowing. It has started snowing this early morning, probably the snow seems to pile up. 

Both of us stay home.

Today’s breakfast is sweets breakfast. Except cookies on the yogurt, all of them are homemade by my friends. Thanks.

Good morning 0209

 

It is sunny, Yuki has already gone to play golf. According to the weather report tomorrow it will snow. So, Yuki is lucky. 

Today, a friend makes a short visit. I will bake bread ( not I, HB) as a present. While HB is cooking, I will do exercise at gym.

Good morning 0208

 

It is the day of Karaku, my performance day.

It is cloudy, thick clouds makes me depressed.

The cafe Karaku must refresh me. 

What clothes  should I put on?

Good morning 0207

The second week of February has started.

On the calendar we have three-day weekend, but we we will spend the days as usual weekend. Our 

granddaughter was going to come.

Can you see the cookies? They are ginger cookies made in Sri Lanka . They are really good.

lunch diary0206

Monday

We drove out a little bit far, on the way home we dropped by KARAKU having lunch. There we read magazines well.

Tuesday

I did 6000 steps walking exercise, and very tired. In front of me, a postman climbed the stairs and deliver posts lightly, quickly, easily.

Wednesday

In the afternoon, we went to the mall of the station. There are many rich stores, so we went there a little bit in "going-out" clothes. Well no one noticed because we wore our winter coat and of course knew our home clothes.

Thursday

Since it's setsubun (brining luck to home), so instead of EHOUMAKI ( eat it look at a direction), I cooked something like one. Usually we have it for dinner, but in the evening we had to go out. So we ate it ignoring the right cardinal directions.

Friday

This week, I did 5,000 step walking every day. I'll do my best for the blood test in about two weeks. 

Good morning 0205

 

It’s Saturday. Unfortunately the private tennis coat Yuki ‘s group uses is closed. 

So, this weekend our mission is walking together, and prepare for “final tax return “.  “Final tax return” is “kaktri shinnkoku” in Japanese. It is kind of ‘a must’. When Yuki was a businessman, it was managed by his office automatically. At that time we got some “return”, but now we don’t.

Good morning 0204

 

Last night, we dropped out to see a small event, it was great. 

Setsubun was finished, so I need to change the things on the shelf  into Valentine’s Day and Hina festival.

This weekend we will start to put together tax documents. 

Good morning 0203

 

Yesterday we went out to a little bit high-class  supermarket.

And these donuts we’re left.  Who had which one?

Today it is “setsubun”. At some shrines setsubun event is held. Both of us just eat setsubun beans as many as one tenth of , though usually, we, especially kids eat them as many as our age.

Good morning 0202

 

This morning the windows of the bathroom didn’t freeze, so it is not colder today than yesterday. 

Recently I knew, printable chocolate trans sheets are sold at 100 yen shop. Shall I try to use some? Anyway I have to walk a 100 shop. I hope at the nearest 100 yen shop they deal with them.

Good morning 0201

 

February has started. 

It is colder than usual the first day in February, though it is sunny.

We enjoyed the rest of last night’s soup for our breakfast.

In the morning, each of us do our own exercise .

Today Yuki was going to have band meeting at night, but it was canceled.

I have a Skype meeting tonight. 

Well well for me, February is the month of starting to face my pollen allergy with the medicine. 

Good morning 0131

A new week has started. After I took this photo, I put some pieces of apples on the plates.

Today, we are going to drive to the “nearest” pond. Fishing season comes in one and half month, according to Yuki. He checks the situations  of pond to practice fishing. And we also visit a big shrine and walk around there as my walking exercise. My blood check is in three weeks.

 

lunch diary 0129

Monday

I got a little spicy curry from a friend so I  mixed it with boiled pumpkin. I had the  rest for our the next day's breakfast making  curry hot sandwich.

Tuesday

A big whole Chinese cabbage! How do I cook? After all, I made Chinese tasted soup with pressure cooker. If I had added TOPPOGI(Korea rice cake), it might have tasted Korean food. Instead of TOPPOGI I added Japanese rice cake.

Wednesday

It was cold in the morning, but it was getting warmer, so I did all the work in the morning. walking.

Thursday

I enrolled as a member of an online haiku party. I'm really looking forward to attend the meeting in next month. That day, I walked 9000 steps. I didn't walk fast, but anyway I was spacing the rest of the day.

Friday

The other day I left my hat at my friend's house. so I visited her, and  I got lot of side dishes she made  for lunch. Thank you.

I got probably the last Yuzu citron of this winter? I soaked them into coarse sugar. My friend made YUBESHI, and I got some. But we have to wait for more one month until they are dried perfectly. I also got homemade "SHIMOTUSKARE" our local food. All of them made me  feel "good winter".

Good morning 0129

 A weekend has come. Our daily pattern is almost the same as weekdays. But we feel kind of different atmosphere. 

For this week I have already thrown away 5 things. So while cleaning rooms, I will discard more five things. 

Well, discard, or sort out some things and store them which are stored somewhere.

This week I constantly did walking exercise. 

Good morning 0128

From the window, we can see the crescent moon．
Today's hot sandwiches are croquet hot sandwiches.  

It is the last day of this weekend. Public tennis coats are still open, nearby schools are not canceled. We can spend as usual.

Some elderly neighbors feel loneliness  again, because their children avoid visiting them again. 

But they and other neighbors including I chat outside without having tea. Thankfully the temperature is not so law  at noon.
 

Good morning 0127

 

On the surface, our life looks as usual. But at some schools, some classes  are closed for a few days in turn because of Omicron. These cases are the first time since Corona pandemic.

Finally I joined online Haiku meeting through posting my own Haiku. The first step is just posting my haiku on the net.

Good morning 0126

 

According to the weather report today it is sunny. 

 However it is still cloudy. You had already gone to play golf.

 Though in the morning I’m going to do usual things like going to the gym, yesterday I walked too much so that  a little bit I’m tired. I’m wondering whether I go to the gym. Pre-emergency measure will be implemented in three days in Tochigi.

Yuki hopes not to close public tennis coats.

I hope not to close public libraries. 

Good morning 0125

 

 According to the weather report it will be sunny in the morning however it will be cloudy or snowy in the afternoon.  Today’s breakfast was hot curry sandwiches. Yesterday we had curry and rice  for our lunch at home. I left some thick soup. I used it and made today’s breakfast with hot sandwich maker. 

 We love such hot sandwiches. But unfortunately we can cook for only two people with the car at lunch yet so I haven’t served favorite hot sandwiches for our granddaughter yet. 

 In the morning each of us will exercise. Yuki goes playing tennis. I go to the gym to do 30 minute exercise. In the afternoon we walk to the nearby home center.  Or we will go there by car, and on the way home only I might walk home back. 

Good morning 0124

 

A new week has started. In the morning I go to a clinic to get regular medicine, then go doing 30 minute exercise  at the gym. 

Yuki goes ??  hour golf practice. 

Then  I will organize, and sort out some documents. 

And I will do walking exercise. It is now less than one month until the blood checkup day.

lunch diary 0122

Monday

My husband found a cooking set of the food which used to be served at MATSUYA for limited period. at a supermarket. He cooked. ・ Hmm, it's quite different from the photo.

Tuesday

Our volunteer group meeting was held at zoom in the morning. In the afternoon, I went to a local community center and talked with t with the staff about our activities about the future. Unfortunately it seems to be difficult to do something in public for a while.

Wednesday

My husband, tried different dishes using another cooking kit. I thought we couldn't  get enough  vegetables. so I asked him to add cabbage.

Thursday

It was a burnable garbage collection day. We saw  a beautiful round moon  floating in the west sky.

Friday

I cooked chicken and  burdock with my slow cooker at first early morning, and I went to see a dentist in the morning. In  the afternoon my husband  also went to see the same dentist. We usually go there once a month to  have our teeth checked.

Good morning 0122

Around 1a.m big earthquake occurred in Kyushu ( south area in Japan), I hope big troubles won’t happen.

Today’s photo is blurred, though it often happens. The green paste is sweet green-tea paste. 

Today at a little bit far supermarket, we can get ten times points more. At only the supermarket, I can get my favorite stater of homemade yogurt. So I will walk there, and will be able to complete today’s walking mission.

Good morning 0121

 

It is the last weekday, today. 

I was not going to have lessons in the evening, but I have. Because this omicron corona pandemic has started, and students’s big sports game was canceled.  So they come to my house as usual after school. 

Good morning 0120

 

This morning the first role was to take out burnable garbage.

The moon was beautiful, though we didn’t notice the moon of last night.

Though cold days have been continued, I continue waking exercise. 

In one month I have to take a health check, so I try to lower the blood cholesterol with exercise.

Good morning 0119

 

Last night we had a big meal, than we expected.  It was steak. we feel heavy in our stomachs. 

 So yogurt with strawberries and some cookies.  Cookies??

Today Yuki has no schedule, so, probably he concentrates to analyze his music score on PC in his room. 

I go to the gym to do 30 minute exercise, and in the afternoon I have lessons.

Good morning 0108

 

According to the weather report in the north area of Tochigi it is snowing. Here it is sunny. 

Today I have a monthly zoom meeting with my group. Probably three members including me will join. 

Then I will go to the local community center to check with our future volunteer activity.  Because of this corona pandemic, some volunteer activities like hobby activities are canceled, though it is difficult to explain what are volunteering hobby activities. And I don’t know what essential volunteer activities are.

Good morning 0117

 

Yesterday, my friend came with a big box of strawberries. She was on the way home from her mother’s house who has strawberry farm.  How lucky? Tochigi is popular for strawberries, but until May they are expensive even here

Today , it is Monday. 

The first house role was taking out burnable garbage. 

Yesterday, we went to the library, but I forgot to take one book to return. So we will go there again. Today yuki has no tennis meeting, so, we will walk to the library.

lunch diary 0116

 Monday

DONDO-yaki (New Year's local event) hasn't done yet in this district. Bute at the shrine they have already accepted lucky charm and sutra of the last year. So we handed them. with pray.

Tuesday

It was Hanaichi Day, a kind of New Year's festival.  I bought " yellow carp doll" which is our local lucky charm in the morning. In the  it was the first my performance day at KARAKU café this year.

Wednesday

I got shock again, because I was rejected by my relative again., but I'm all right. I'm a big person with a big "heart".

Thursday

I managed to go to the gym to do 30 minute-exercise two days in a row. Anyway, my goal of this year is keeping exercise.

Friday

I had a gastroscope in the morning. There is no polyp this time.  Really??  I feel having quite gastritis, but it seems to be neurogenic gastritis.

Good morning 0117

 As soon as we wakes up, tsunami news are constantly on the air. I hope big troubles will not happen.

Anyway our usual day has started.

Yuki goes tennis. He likes today’s tennis meeting, because the main members are active people, he gets young energy from them.

I will edit my haiku YouTube, then I will  do walking exercise.

Good morning 0116

 

It is Saturday. It’s sunny. In the morning Yuki goes practicing tennis. Once a week he takes tennis lessons. I will discarding things.

The green spread on the toast is Maccha (green tea) butter.  My friend gave me. 

The most favorite way to use it , this way.

However today I didn’t prepare shimmered red beans.

Good afternoon 0114

 I’ve just come back from the clinic. 

Today I had a gastroendoscopy,  and thankfully my gastro had no problem.

Then I went to Mac and had a morning set.

Well, I take anti-panic medicine these days, but than I expect, my innards are strong like my mother.

Good morning 0113

I start a short blog  in English again on this site.

Yesterday, it was really cold, but today it is sunny and doesn’t seem to be cold, though I don’t to outside yet. Anyway in the morning, I will go to the gym. And in the afternoon, we will go grocery shopping, it will be a peaceful day.

One day drive

We did one-day drive. It was the first time of this year.
I found an article that a famous old TENGU mask at a old temple is available until 15th of this month.
So we went there. It was about one hour drive.
The temple called HORINGI was bigger than we expected.
So we felt we were in a sightseeing spot. Fortunately it was not so crowded.

 Then we had lunch. This area is famous for TORAFUGU (Japanese pufferfish), but it was expensive, so we had "usual" SASHIMI-bowl.
You might wonder why we have SASHIMI-bowl here because we have no sea.
The reason is we are JAPANESE. And unfortunately they didn't serve Japanese noodle during winter vacation season.

Then we visited a local shrine in the town.

And we also visited river fish production processing firm --not fisher shop. There they culture river fish, so we can get eels at reasonable price.
To tell the truth, at the restaurant we had lunch, they serve a eel-bowl at 3300yen.
It is actually less expensive than others restaurant in other towns.
But I bought one eel at 1500yen.

Then we visited, a small historical point where recently they were renewed.

In Meiji era, about 100 years ago, in this area there used to be "JINSYA TETSUDOU" handcar railway like Atami town. Now it is available as one of sights pots of this area.

Does it make sense? 

Then we dropped by a big discount supermarket.

We came back about 4 PM. 

And our dinner was the eel which was grilled by me.

lunch diary 0108 in 2022

Is it irresponsible that "everybody is different"?

 It is difficult to explain the correct situation. Anyway I wonder about an article.

I know saying our own opinion is important.

I know having our own opinion is important.

However, when someone expresses their opinion, is it irresponsible or rude to say "everybody is different" ?

Of course if it is a place to debate, or to discuss, it might be rude.

"I understand your opinion. But it is difficult to judge whether I can accept, or I can't accept. I need time to put my thoughts together. Or it is not time for me to think about the them".

Under this corona pandemic, things which we make decision seem to increase.

 

New Year has come

 Happy New Year!

We saw the first sunrise from our house.

And we had New Year's feast at home.

"We" means, Yuki, our two daughters, and our grandchild.

I noticed that since we got married, it was the first to time for only family members  to celebrate New Year at home. Usually we celebrated New Year's Eve with my mother and we visited Yuki's mother on New Year's Day.  

Last year only two of us celebrated New Year, because of the sever corona pandemic.

This time our younger daughter and our grandchild came back from Thailand and our elder daughter visited us. 

For our grandchild it was the first time to spend New year's vacation in japan since she could understand many things. So I cooked harder than usual.

To tell the truth, usually my sister in-law cooked, so I didn't need to cook so much.

Anyway our New Year's vacation was finished.

Our usual days have started.