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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Our Christmas week has finished. 

Today I put away all decorations and put New Year's decorations.

This year a friend came, so I decided to cook something, and Three of us including Yuki enjoyed Christmas.

My elder daughter visited her younger sister's apartment, so our daughters and our grand daughter enjoyed Christmas together. (Unfortunately our son in-law couldn't come back to Japan from Thailand)

This year, of course we were in trouble with covid-19.

However, for us the most worried thing was my mother's situation.

Since she needed care by someone, almost one year has passed. Last Christmas she was all right, though because of corona pandemic, no one except my brother who lives with her only spent together.

During one year, many things in our life  changed. I'm suffering from light depression.

Fortunately my mother and Yuki's mother are fine.

My mother spends her life at her house with her son.

Yuki's mother spends her life at a elderly nursing home.

It's difficult to say which is better, which is happier.

They show us our future.

Merry Christmas

 How are you spending today? My friend comes in 30 minutes, so we are going to decorate cake together, I already prepared based sponge cake, strawberries, fresh whipped cream.

This year one of my HAIKU won a prize, and it was placed on next year's calendar with English version.

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I added subtitles in Japanese and English.

Our these days life is partly involved in my mother's care or partly not. However we enjoy our daily life.

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I added subtitles in English and Japanese.