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Monday, I felt dull. So Yuki went grocery shopping to get some things on morning half-price sale at a nearby supermarket. We spent the day lazily.

Tuesday, I had a zoom meeting in the morning. I was glad to chat with the members of my volunteer group. I don't know when to restart our activities at the library and nursery schools. Anyway we continue communicating ONLINE. Now Japanese pear season comes. So I sent TOCHIGI's pears to my friends. Each of them gave me a call. So in the afternoon I was always talking on the phone or skype with someone. 

Wednesday, I thought it was a sunny day. So I wiped up the windows. BUT since I wiped them up? a heavy rain came. In Yuki's case after he washes his car it starts raining. So I seldom wash my car, I usually have washed my car at the gas station. I'm thinking when to go there.

Thursday, Yuki went playing tennis. Public tennis coats are closed. BUT community coats are open for the residents. So he can play tennis once a week. And so far his tennis school is also open. So he takes tennis lessons once a week. On the other hand though my private gym is open, I stopped going there for a while.  

Friday, fortunately the mandatory quarantine of our younger daughter and grand daughter was finished without any problems. They came to Utsunomiya. They started volunteer quarantine for 10 days at nearby weekly rental condominium.

Kid Talk card -2-

 Today's card is here.

Unfortunately, I couldn't gather members of my Zoom meeting about this card. Anyway I continue to advertise this plan.

Nowadays, lack of numbers of honey bees is getting a big ploblem.

Well, today's questions are these three.

What smell do you like best? 

Though it depends on seasons, I like mint in summer. It makes me feel refreshed.

I also like lavenders. I have a big potted lavenders in my garden. I picked the flowers and dried them. They smell good. 

However nowadays, here and we see lots of things with artificial lavender's smell, like detergent, air refresher. So a kids said "this is the smell of washroom".

I had a big laugh. Well when I was a kid, the smell of orange osmanthus was the smell of washroom.

. My elder daughter doesn't like bananas. BECASUE she used to use toothpaste with banana smell, and she didn't like the smell in sudden, and she didn't like eating bananas subsequently. 

A few years ago I was into aroma, and my family also likes aroma. The big hit was against aging body odor. Since Yuki retired, Yuk's stress has decreased, and he doesn't have not so strong aging body odor according to our daughters.

I'd like to have a such chat. 

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Monday 

I got the second vaccination. I thought probably I had no side effect on the day, but anyway I dropped by a super market and bought some delicatessen. I spent lazily the rest of the day (as usual).

Tuesday

Fortunately I had no fever, so I went to KARAKU to perform with my friend.

However I felt very sluggish, so after Karaku, I took a nap and had light dinner, and went to bed earlier than usual.

Wednesday

Both of us had much free time. City tennis coats were closed. I stopped temporally going to the gym. However Yuki wasn't bored. He seemed to enjoy watching TV while watching his PC. On the other hand --- I was a little bid bored. BUT to tell the truth, I still felt sluggish.

Thursday

I went to my friend's house to get a hair cut.  In the afternoon I started organizing my English materials. As I introduced my new plan yesterday, I planed zoom meeting more using my materials.

Friday

Though I did lessons, I was not in good shape. I thought the reason was the sudden coldness. I didn't seem adjust to the difference of the temperature. OR I might had belated side effect.

This weekend I was almost in bed taking some medicine. I had no fever, but anyway I felt very sluggish. Today I'm all right. And it is not so cold.

KidTalk card -1-

I have continued organizing and revising my English materials. And I want to use some more often. Some of them don't "see the light day" yet.   The set of KidTalk cards is one of them.

I bought it to use for three minute talk at Toast Masters meeting. But I didn't use it. Now I left Toast Masters club.

So I think that "anyway use it. So I'll open 30 minute zoom meeting once a week to discuss one theme using this card".

To tell the truth, last week I introduced my zoom meeting on my group blog, and facebook. Unfortunately I couldn't get any attendee. It's alright. I'll try it little by little.

Oh, if you are interested in it, please leave the message on the Facebook site, thought it is in Japanese. Usually I organize the meeting every Thursday from 4:00 (Japan time). I decided whether it will open or not in the morning on the day.

Last week, I wanted to talk about this card. This weekend we have OBON holiday. So I thought it might be suitable card.

What is OBON?

Obon ia one of the buddhist events. In Buddhism, it is believed that the sprits of family ancestors come back to this world during the Obon period. So as a Japanese custom , it means though we are not strict Buddhists, we tend to hold family gatherings.  Obon is not an official holiday, but many companies decide that this period is holiday week, so many employees can easily plan and go back to their hometowns for family gatherings. 

This video is a traditional style. In my case, just visit my mother and my mother in-law. 

Well,  the theme of this card is

What is your favorite holiday, Why do you celebrate it, what do you do on that day?

Actually I don't have any favorite holiday. But for me New Year's holiday is very important, so in a way  New Year's holiday is my favorite holiday.

New year makes my feeling refresh. I can change my mind easily. I feel I will start a new step.

I do visit shrines. As you know our hobby is visiting shrines these days. But visiting shrines on that day make our feeling more purify. So I love it.

And I don't need doing usual errands. Before corona pandemic we went to Tokyo to attend family meeting. Of course we do lots of errands, mainly cooking. But there are many people, so my task is very few. This year Yuki and I stayed here. But I sipped usual house errands. We spent the holiday lazily --- well, nowadays we often spend lazily.

If you share your idea, I'm happy.

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Monday,

Yuki's second vaccination was finished. He is the first person in my family to take the vaccination twice. It is a relief for us.

Unfortunately, he had fever. But it was all right to take a fever reducer. He seemed to enjoy the day in his room watching TV, playing around on computer and so on.

Tuesday,

I felt a little bit tired from this heat even though I stayed almost in the house those days. We went to the library and on the way home as usual we dropped by small shrines.

Wednesday,

I got lots of green peppers from the lady next person. Both of us felt a little bit bored and tired. SO, we did 10 minute cooking. We made easy unsweetened pudding called "CYAWANMUSHI" with microwave oven. Well, this youtube recipe seems to be complicated than ours.

Thursday

I got GOYA (bitter gourd) . So in that morning, I was also busy in cooking. This summer it is really hot, so it seems to be a good harvest season of summer vegetables. Some of them is eaten by themselves, but we (Yuki and I) are not plant eaters. And it is difficult to fresh vegetables themselves much at once. It means "cooking" is necessary.

Friday

In the morning I went to dentist, and in the afternoon, Yuki went to dentist and skin clinic.  

I try to do things what I can do on the day. However to tell the truth, I'm full of anxiety, though I have nothing what I can do by myself. Like everyone (probably) I seem to be tired of this corona pandemic and, my mother, my younger daughter's family, and -- well, I'm not so worried about my elder daughter even though she doesn't earn money. In fact I really thank her for watching my mother. 

So I really than to YUKI, who chose " not to work more" and "to stay home".

Well, he doesn't stay home. Yuki's attitude to enjoy his "hobby" makes me relaxed and tells me Whatever happens happens.

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Monday

I cooked lunch without cutting corners, or  seriously, though it doesn't mean "elaborately". I sautéed chicken and Naganegi onion  with YAKITORI-sauce.

My mother denied to have delivered daily frozen delicatessen,  so my brother has to prepare something for her everyday.  But he accepted her selfish opinion. 

Tuesday

Typhoon came, but than we expected it was not so strong. Anyway Yuki's outside activities were canceled. Both of us stayed home all the day.

Wednesday

After we did some errands including going to the bank, we dropped by Karaku and had lunch. There we met my friend. We told her to have lunch together, so she sat next to our table. All three of us had a bitter laugh. Probably after the second shot of the vaccination we are able to sit at the same table.

Thursday

We went to some stores to find RANDOSEL (Japanese back pack for elementary school students). They are seasonal things, but even in summer it is not so difficult to get it. Our granddaughter will go to school in Japan from the middle of September.

For the first month, my daughter and granddau

ghter stay Japan as temporally returnees, and if the situation doesn't get better, they live in Japan after getting their residence resisters. What we can do is just watching them.

Friday

For two days it was really humid because of Typhoon. I felt dull and sluggish. So we had a little bit good quality stake. 

In August , our city has announced to take special measures against corona pandemic. One of them is to close public sports facilities. Well, Yuki's tennis activity is canceled. Instead of it, he will go fishing more, and he will go golf practice more.

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I felt rushed this week.

Monday, it was the day I took the first vaccination. My arm hurt ---but . Just like that. Fortunately I had no fever.

Anyway, I was really afraid of the side effect, and it was a good excuse not to do cook. So before I went to clinic I had bought some delicatessen for our lunch and dinner. After the vaccination, I spent the rest of the day lazily.

Tuesday, 

My back hurt a little. Anyway I was all right. In the morning I had a zoom meeting with my English Picture book reading club members.

I cooked corn-rice with rice cooker. I make rice with a cob of corn. After it was cooked, I scraped the corn and mix them up.

Wednesday

I was going to the gym, but ---suddenly I got a call from my younger daughter living in Thailand. She and her daughter (my grand daughter) were told from her husband's company to go back to Japan temporally.  So to do that they suddenly had to make arrangements and preparations. And Yuki and I also started to make a contact to some departments of our city office. Well if everything goes well, they will come back at the end of August.

Thursday

On our calendar,  four-days weekend started. But for two of us it was usual days.

But my gym was closed. So "finally" I began to organize and reconsider the stock of my KIMONO. I didn't discard them yet, but anyway I divided them into two groups. One is  the KIMONO I keep, the other is the KIMONO I "might" discard. 

Friday

Not only my gym, Yuki's tennis meeting was also closed. So we cleaned our house, and went out for lunch.

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Monday

I made "grilled pork - over- rice bowl ". Maybe you've heard "beef-over-rice-bowl" or beef-bowl. Instead of beef I used pork.

In the afternoon, we went to a mall to buy a birthday present for my grand child. I hope she will be able to receive the package in two weeks.

I think it will reach. Because I sent it in a big envelope, so it must be considered as a kind of letter.

These days it seems to be difficult for parcels to reach people overseas because of corona pandemic, on the other hand letter seems to be delivered as usual.

Tuesday

I deep-fried a kind of spring rolls. In the afternoon I went to KARAKU to perform for 30 minutes with my friend.

Wednesday

We went to a shrine on a small mountain. It took 40 minutes by car. Usually we go there on a New Year's Day. This year we didn't. So finally we went there. It was the first time to go there on a weekday. During the holiday seasons, we can't drive to the front of the shrine. We have to climb the mountain. But this day it was really easy for us to go to the shrine. Because we could drive to the front of it.

Thursday

I cooked "grilled beef -over- rice bowl". To tell the truth, the grilled beef was the leftover of yesterday's dinner.

In the afternoon both of us went to get our hair cut. He went to his familiar barber shop, I went to my friend's beauty salon.

Friday

I cooked Chinese dumpling. To say more correctly, I bought frozen Chinese dumplings, and just fried. When there were four members, I used to make Gyoza from scratch. It was economical, and making with my daughters was a kind of leisure time. Now, it is not economical and troublesome.

However, when my daughter comes back, probably I'll make them for her.

And of course when my grand child visit us, I'll make them together for leisure time. (I'm not sure whether she is willing to do it together, she is not an infant who is amenable to any ideas. )

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Monday

Before the day, I cooked zucchini and bacon. So I cooked the rest of bacon and kidney beans  for our lunch. I felt week because of probably the humid rainy day.

On the other hand Yuki was fine even though he got the first vaccine against Covid 19 the day before.  So he went golf practicing.

My mother also sounded sluggish. (Well we saw our face each other through Alexa App.)

Tuesday

It was humid, but anyway it didn't rain. Yuki went to playing tennis as usual. And I also went to the gym to workout.

Wednesday. 

In the morning we spent as usual like that Yuki went playing golf, I went to the gym.

On the day it was Star Festival. Two students was going to come in the evening. So I prepared some things for enjoying Star Festival together. Someone coming makes me busy and active.

Thursday

Both of us had no schedule in the morning. So we went to another library, and on the way home we dropped by a butcher downtown. There we can get domestic meat. It costs reasonable, and tastes good.

Friday

My elder daughter went to Kyoto for a few days. There she joined a small group exhibition.  In her free time she was planning to visit some temples and write sutras.

So I also tried writing sutras, in the morning. In the evening and at night I had usual lessons. 

Well, these days Yuki constantly practices the guitar from the evening without taking a nap. He is going to attend a live event in August.

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It is raining, now. I thought it would have not been so heavy rainy season. But it was wrong. Here and there big accidents are happening. Anyway we are spending every day calmly as much as we can.

Monday. We started to organize the top closets. We know that when we become over 70, we don't "check" the top closets. We did it 5 years ago. At that time most heavy things were moved to into middle closets or some things were thrown away. It was the second time. Yuki gave to keep his old audio gadgets. The things they are kept there are mostly kids' works and our albums.

But one sets of old audio speakers which was my father's and brand speakers are still kept.

Tuesday, it was very cold "for me". So I turned on the heater.

In the morning I "finally" updated my iPhone.  It took all the morning, but I did it. Well, then I found my iPad doesn't work well partly. So I had to update my iPad, too. I thought I was not so bad with using such gadgets, but --- these days I don't like them.

Wednesday, we went out to have lunch at our familiar restaurant. It the first time in a year, well we bought New Year's feast there.

Thursday, it was raining. So Yuki decided to throw his old PC. So he initialized it. As soon as he  clicked the initialize button, the initialization started and finished. Well we also booked our Covid vaccination.  At first Yuki is going to take it this Sunday.

Thursday, I walked to the dentist in the morning. In the afternoon for a while raining stopped. So the next door lady picked some green pepper and egg plants from her "garden" (or small farm) and gave some over the fence. We chatted for a while. Even though she already got Covid vaccination, we hesitate to chat face to face long time.

Homemade mulberry vinegar

This year I got lots of mulberries and raspberries. So I keep some bags of them in the freezer. On the other hand I made berry vinegar with the berries, vinegar and brown crystal sugar. It took one week for the taste to get mild.

I did it, so I shared them to my friends. I also made marinated zucchini.

I "delivered" them to my friend and my neighbor.

Here in Utsunomiya, we are not under the emergency situation, but we are still careful to chat with others. (Well, depends of people)

I chatted with the friend for a little at her garden, 

and I also chatted with my neighbor over the fence.

Because of this pandemic,  some people are also scared to exchange homemade meals. We don't care.

I also have a online chatting friend who lives in the next prefecture. Before this pandemic we sometimes meet halfway. Now we don't. She sent me a box of fresh cobs of corn. 

I also shared them with them.

I made coleslaw. It is really good the inside of hot sandwhiches.

Even though we talk for a short time, sharing meals is a good excuse to see them.

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This week, it was a very active week.

Monday.

I went to a clinic to get Japanese herb medicine on foot.

Do you know "Pear Twist"?

Tuesday.

On the day a NPO group member came to take my English teaching materials.

The group helps children and their family who are in trouble to go to school, or financially. I'll keep contact with this group.

Then, I also went to the gym to do 30 minute workout. 

In the afternoon "we" went to the coin laundry to wash the winter carpets.

It was the first time to wash direct there. Until then we had taken them to the cleaning shop. We were really afraid what happened. But it was all right. When we bought these carpet, they were not so inexpensive, or for us at that time they were expensive. So we had thought it would be difficult to clean with washing machine. But it was all right. We will be able to use them next winter.

Wednesday

These days I was feeling that my right eye was heavy. So I went to an eye clinic. 

The doctor said "eye  fatigue". I got two kinds of eye drop. Well I really understood why these day wrinkles on my forehead increased.

Thursday

This day I kept watching and talking to my other via ALEXA.

She was not so good. So she was always grumbling. 

Friday

We had no plans in the afternoon. 
So we went to see hydrangeas. One was not so far. It is a private estimate. The landowner has continued planting more hydrangeas since 20 years ago.  And the site naturally got viewing spot for these years.

 The other site was a shire, which is famous for hydrangeas.

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Monday;

I got a head of Chinese cabbage. It was too big, but  --- it was troublesome for me to think of some arrangement of cooking. So I cooked whole of it with pressure cooker.

My mom finally left the hospital. I talked with her a little. Her physical power looked weaker, but fortunately her Alzheimer symptoms didn't seem to progress. Actually the same thing was told by the doctor.

Tuesday;

Zucchini season has come. I got the first Zucchini of this year. Yuki had no idea to cook it. So Anyway I baked Zucchini pizza, and at the same time I also baked slices of Zucchini and marinated.

Wednesday;

Finally here in Utsunomiya, rainy season has started. It was a little bit cold day for me. So my electric slow cooker was very helpful. I put cutting Japanese radish into it and just put the switch on.

I had a zoom meeting in the morning. It seems to be still difficult to held a volunteer reading meeting at the library. On the other hand elderly people around me almost  received the vaccination shot of Covid-19.

Thursday;

I organized my teaching material and English picture books. 

Finally I got contact with a NPO community which support kids. Next week a staff comes to take some of them if they are able to use my stuff. I'm happy if my materials are helpful for them, and also I'm happy to make a connection with them. It might bring me a new path in my retirement life.

Friday;

Yuki and I visited my father and my grandmother's grave. We picked Tomomi on the way. It was the first time in one and half year. At that time my Mom was with us. 

After that we visited my Mom. She was all right, but as I expected her physical power got weaker. But she undergoes rehabilitation constantly. She can go toilet by herself, she can come to kitchen and eat it by herself ,, though all actions are very very slow.

Now, about 1 PM my brother is staying with her. Then around 3 her daughter in-law visits her. And around 5 my daughter visits her. Then my brother comes back around 7 and make dinner.

I'm not sure whether this life style will be continued.

Anyway Until next week, every day in the morning two nurses visit her to care her knee and check her heath condition.  In two weeks, the service will change into vising care service. 

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Monday, I found a fat long stalk of parsley, so I broke it off. I wanted to less doing the dishes, so that I steamed with fried pan. I had to wash the pan, but it was not so oily that it was easy to wash it.

Tuesday, We went to a "special" super . "special" means they serve all goods for affordable price. Main customers are merchants, but they accept general customers.

We bought a big bag of bacon.

Wednesday, this year we get lots of mulberries.  They are all right to eat fresh ones, make jam, and store in the freezer.

Thursday, it sudden got hot. So it seemed to be difficult to keep vegetables fresh for days. I fried all of them with strange taste. It was not so bad.

Friday, I learn HAIKU by receiving corrections by mail once a year. This week I got the correction of last month, and I posted my works of this week. On my way home from the post office, I dropped by a supermarket and bought this delicatessen.

This week it was the day of KARAKU. Under this corona pandemic, it is the only chance to wear my "stylish" clothes.

I really enjoyed my clothes, performance, and the atmosphere at cafe KARAKU.

We visited three shrines to tell our thankfulness and happiness.

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Monday; it was the sales day of "480yen for two sets of Chinese delicatessen" . So we bought two sets. there are three dishes on the table. One is the breakfast leftover.

  

Tuesday, my brother sent a photo which was taken at yesterday's online visiting at hospital. He connected her voice to me through his phone during the interview, but I couldn't see her. So I was very happy. She was fine. I managed to read them up taking lots of rest. June has started. Anyway I went to the gym  to do  30 minute exercise.

  

Wednesday, As soon as Yuki got up, he went fishing. In a week they will be able to fish "ayu". Yuki doesn't have the right to fish them. He didn't buy it because of the price and -- it is really difficult to fish "ayu". But when the season comes, the rivers are more crowded. So before that he wanted to get at least one fish. Unfortunately he didn't get any fish this time again.

   

Thursday; the night before I cooked well. It means, I bothered cooking deep fried cutlet. Of course it is wasteful to put the oil away. So for this lunch I cooked deep fried (kind of) Gyoza. Well mulberry harvest has started. I put fresh mulberries on our salad.

 

Friday, There are "GYOZA". "Gyoza" is one of our local specialty.

"Our local???". Since we came here more than 35 years passed. And without noticing GYOZA became "our local specialty".

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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