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March 31th. an old wooden boｘ. 。I made a hot sandwich with cabbage, green pepper, ham, cheese and egg for my breakfast and lunch.
I am going to restore an old wooden box that seems to have stored some mechanical parts.
Many plastic storage boxes are now made in bulk and cheaply. In the past, storage boxes of something were made of wood out of necessity. For example, 1946 my uncle Shigeo was 13 years old. He made a wooden box to strore rice for my family. It was in use untel 1982 in my home. Then I used itr laundry tool box until now.
Each old wooden box has it`s oun story. So, I love and colect them.
Anyway I'm going to remodel it to be a storage box of old lenses.
At my Fossil-like Lenses Renovation Factory, I made workbench with a collecting dust garbage function.
My cats kidney function has been decreasing since last year. Her doctor at the pet clinic gives drop under her skin for fluids each 10 days, and she gets a prescription.
Her hair looks a little bad. Photographed with Yashica AUTO YASHINON-DX 1 :1.7 f=50mm No.5775141
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March 30th. two dust collectors 。I woke up early. I made two Sauce Yakisoba at the same time, one for the breakfast and one for my lunch.
I completely finished remoding two dust collectors, one for milling metal another for woody work.
To a junk vacuum cleaner in my home, I added a second filter. And to a big vacuum cleaner used in my factory, I added the cyclone system bought on Amazon. They have more suction power than before. It is easy to dispose of the collected dust. The junk vacuum cleaners in my home came back to life. The wood I used was scrap wood. I newly bought the cyclone system, 3 sizes of suction hoses, screw, nail and adhesive. The total cost is less than 10,000 yen.
For dinner, I had fried squid, sliced tomatoes, tofu, and beer.
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March 29th. Uchida Pet Clini 。I took my cat to Uchida Pet Clinic. Then I took a nap with my cat. Probably because I staed up late watching YouTube or Prime Video.
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March 28th. Hattendo cream breads 。I ate a Gyoza vegetable soup self made, granola yogurt and a round bread by the bakery Backenbart for my breakfast. I love the round bread because it has a special texture. My wife said that it maybe has a special secret fermentation. Also all of the good breads maybe have a special fermentation.
I bought a few frozen Hattendo cream breads by Co-Cp. I defrosted one of them naturally and ate it for my lunch. It's delicious, more like a cream puff than a bread.
I was making a dust collector for my Fossil-like Lens Renovation Factory ｉｎ ｔｈｅ afternoon.
My younger brother gave me some Futomaki- sushi by KozouZushi for my evning meal.
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March 27th. froze Atsuage and Konnyaku 。I froze Atsuage(fried tofu) and Konnyaku once. This will help the flavors soak into the ingredients. I quite like Konnyaku. I made Konnyaku, Atsuage, and carrot stew.
I spent a lot of time today at my Fossil-like Lens Renovation Factory from morning to evening. I was making a dust collector for wood works. Difficult to connect hoses of different diameters. I think this will be a success. My work is better than a ready-made product, low cost, high performance. Moreover, my junk vacuum cleaner came back to life.
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March 26th. my responding to earthquakes 。I saw my doctor as usual in the morning. When the medicine on hand is running out, I see my doctor. However this time is before 7 days. I'm going to meet my doctor next in 6 or 7 days again and get a prescription, I'm going to increase my medicine on hand to two weeks worth. This is in response to possible earthquakes, floods, etc.
I had my FJ inspected for a year at Toyota Mitsukaido 10:30 am. Then I went to the bakery Backenbart in Moriya city and bought some bread. The store name comes from the owner baker's sideburns. It's been a while. It was so delicious that I ate it in my FJ soon.
From 3:00pm, I made a dust collector for milling metal, which is my modified junk vacuum cleaner, at my Fossil-like Lens Renovation Factory. 6:00 p.m. it was rained and the temperature went down quickly. So I returned to my home. So, cold. My cat Miya-O slept in bed all day maybe.
I made a hot vegetable soup for my evening meal.
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March 25th. My life is a series of failures. 。The other day, I got Sekihan from my cousin who is at my mother's parents home. Her Sekihan is really good. I eat it 3 times today.
I have completely finished to remodeling an electric circular saw into a table saw. I spent more than 30 hours in 6-dayｓ for this renovation. This dimensional accuracy has improved compared to a hand circular saw. However, it is not the same as a store bought table saw. So, considering the time spent, I think it would have been better to buy one that cost around 30,000 yen on Amazon.
My life is a series of failures. I would like to use this experience the next 20 years.
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March 24th. Carmen Chase lives in Venos Aires. 。Recently I use Yashica AUTO YASHINON-DX 1 :1.7 f=50mm No.5775141 with EOS M3 a lot. It has a specaly Bokhe, I love. However the selfmade mount adapter has a problem, it`s axis is not collect. So light axis bent slight, so the image of right half distort more than left harf.
Carmen Chase lives in Venos Aires. She looked at the photo of Soba that I uploaded to Flickr, and asked me.
" are these noodles also served in a bowl? or is the box more typical? "
My anser was.
Thank you for the question. I'll tell you what I know.
This is a type of Mori Soba that is served with a side of Soba Tsuyu (soba dipping soup). The advantage of this type is that you can enjoy just the soba noodles without adding any soup.You will enjoy the flavour and taste of pure soba. Sometimes it is served in a Zaru instead of a Seiro. I think this difference is due to the taste and way of thinking of the soba restaurant.
By the way, in my case, I eat soba the first Seiro without the Soba Tsuyu.
As you say, there are some soba that is served in a bowl. It is in a type of Kake Soba. Kake means soaking soba in soup. The soba noodles and toppings are served soaked in warm soup. For example, Tsukimi Soba, Tanuki Soba, Kitsune Soba, Tenpura Soba, Nishin Soba, etc.
In my case, I don't like Kake. That's why photos of Kake Soba don't appear on my Flickr.
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March 23th. Tenseiro. 。I had Oden, sliced tomato, celery, and cafe au le for my breakfast.
I participated Saturday English class 10pm.
In the afternoon, I went to my apartment in Tsukuba city for drain cleaning, which is carried out once every three years. I was in the first slot of the cleaning order in the afternoon, it finished at 1:30, so I was in time for the lunch Soba restaurant Kimura. I had Tenseiro.
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March 22th. Mt.Tsukuba 。I go to Chicksei-City each month 3rd Friday, and join the Photo Kano Club monthly meeting. I can see a different view of Mt.Tsukuba from this direction. So, I shoot a few every month. Photographed with Yashica AUTO YASHINON-DX 1 :1.7 f=50mm No.5775141
My younger brother bought one plant of celery for 800 yen from his related celery farmer direct selling on, and he gave me it free. The celery is really fresh and delicious. Torisen sells one piece of celery for 250 yen.
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March 21th. my day to buy food 。I had pork curry and rice mixed with 16 types of grains for my breakfast.
Yesterday, I got a call from a detectivefrom the Sakai Police Station. Today, I got a call from a firefighter of the Teraku fire station. He said that he was writing a report of the fire. He said,"please tell me anything about the fire you called 119 about" 119. I said to him almost the same things I told the detective from the Sakai Police Station. A Teraku firefighter said he would have to get my agreement on the final report later. So he will call me again.
Being the first person to call 119 about a fire is little troublesome.
Torisen does a 5% discount service for senios with a senior card on thursday. It was my day to buy food. So today's dinner was full of green vegetables and came with potato croquettes.
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March 20th. The fire happened. 。 It's going to snow in the afternoon in Ueda City, so my wife returned to Ueda City from Iwai in the morning.
I had Syake-sushi leftover for my lunch.
It was a fine sunny day in the morning. So I went to my Fossil-like Lens Renovation Factory. I rent a space for my lens factory from my younger brother. It`s the second floor of his werehouse in Bandou city Nagasu.
I made a table for an electric circular saw. Because I have two electric circular saws. They are almost the same. So I thought that I remake one into a table saw. The purpose of making the table was to support the circular saw made into a table saw. I spend a lot of time making it and I had lunch there.
In the afternoon, the weather changed. It became cloudy sometimes raining, and a wind blowed strong.
It was near 6:00 in the afternoon. I was returning my home. The black clouds were moving very quickly. At first time I thought so. However they were not clouds. It was black smoke. I moved to the window side and looked. It was fire. The dry grass in the field about 150m ahead were on fire. There was a house and solar panels downwind and the wind was very strong. Did someone call 119 ? Nobody was nearby the fire. I hesitated a little. But it was a really strong wind, so I called 119. An emergency manager said I was the first to call. A few fire engines arrived about 10 or 15 minutes later. So I returned to my home. At that moment, about one hour later, I got a call from a detective of the Sakai Police Station. He asked me about to my how I find the fire and called 119. For example, where wa I at that time? Was someone with me? How far was I from the fire ? Did I see someone near the fire ? Whay did I call 119? etc, It seems he was searching the possibility of arson t.
Being the first person to calling 119 on a fire is little troublesome.
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March 19th. Syake-Sush. 。My wife made Syake-Sushi for the dinner. Syake meens a salmon. She took the grilled salmon, broke it into flakes, and mixed it into the sushi rice along with a few kind of aromatic vegetables. We had dinner at her parent`s house with her father.
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March 18th. Cafe Posten. 。I took my cat to Uchida Pet Clinic.
My wife and I went to Cafe Posten in Tsukuba City Hojo for our lunch. Our favorite. We used to go there when we liveed in Tsukuba City, now not so ofen.It is a little bit far from Iwai, however when my wife returns we like to go to this cafe.
I made coleslaw salad, and my wife made curry rice for our dinner. We had dinner at her parent`s house with her father.
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March 17th. a little bit rude lousy. 。I made a hot sandwich with 2 kinds of cheese, cabbage, onion, green pepper, and ham for our breakfast.
I bought an extension tube for macro photography made in China, however it was a little bit rude lousy. The dimensional accuracy was bad, so loose. I added plastic tape. It was an improvement, but it's not as durable, and I'll have to replace it with thin aluminum.
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March 16th. a ｇraham bread. 。I baked ｇraham bread using my electric automatic bread baker by timer setting. It's a old Soldier. So, I had to help little by mixing flour and milk starting last night.
I made a hot sandwich with two types of cheese, cabbage, peppers, onions, and ham on graham bread. I had it, with sliced tomato and lettuce, yogurt granola and cafe au le for my breakfast.
My cat meow was fine after medicine time.
I made instant Ramen with a lot of vegetables and an egg for my lunch. My favorite brand is Charumera from Myojo Foods.
My wife boarded the Shinkansen at 1:38 p.m. at Ueda Station. So, I went to Shimizu Park Station around 3:40pm and picked her up. She returned to Iwai to prepare for the visitors during Higan week.
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March 15th. I converted an old electric circular saw into a table saw. 。I made a soup with a few kinds of vegetables, and chicken balls for my breakfast.
There were somethings I noticed when I started work on converting an old electric circular saw into a table saw. I have to spend a lot of time more than 3 days working on the renovation, and needed some money for materials. So, it is better way that I throw out my old circular saw and buy a new table saw.
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March 14th. Kyocera trimmer ATRE60V 628650A. 。I had beef curry rice topping with crushed pistachio nuts, and added tomatoes and cucumbers salad.
I bought a new wood cutting machine Kyocera trimmer ATRE60V 628650A, and trimmer dust collection adapter 6077371 from Amazon. The total cost was 22,077 yen. I hesitated to spend more than 20,000 yen. However, it was necessary to improve the dimensional accuracy of the processed product.
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March 13th. I made a table for electric circular saw. 。I woke up early in this morning, so I cooked two meals at same time. It was sauce Yakisoba, I divided into two, one for breakfast, other for Bento. So breakfast and lunch box menu were almost the same today.
I made a table for my electric circular saw, the purpose was to convert a circular saw into a table saw. I spend a lot of time at my Fossil-like Lenses Renovation Factory and I had lunch there today.
Modifying fossil photography lenses requires precision. In my cases, in order to perform high-precision machining, highly precise woody jigs are required. Jig is a device that holds a piece of work and guides the tools operating on it. Therefore, I need high-precision woody jigs, and use high-precision tools for processing wood. So I modify the tools I have now to improve their accuracy. This table is one of them.
These are mountain shiletto view photos from my Fossil-like Lenses Renovation Factory after sunset. Upper is a silhouette of Mt. Fuji. Lower is a silhouette of mountains in the northwest.
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March 12th. a weight scale with body composition monitor. 。For breakfast, I made turnip, tofu, soybean, carrot, green pepper, and lotus root soup.
Yesterday I received a email from the Sagawa-kubin about delivery. I was waiting for the Sagawa-kyubin delivery from the Ibaraki Ken dental association in the morning. I waited until 12:30, but they did not come. Because Sagawa-kyubin man thought these was no person in the office becase of a notice as hospital closure, and took back delivery. He did not push the door phone buttan.
I requested to deliver again on line. Today he came again, So, I knew the reason. Delivery thing was a weight scale with body composition monitor. It was a 70th birthday gift.
In the afternoon, I went to my favorite soba restaurant Kimura in Tsukuba city, but they were temporarily closed. Ｓｏ，I had one fourth pound hot dog at Costco for my evening meal.
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March 11th. jam and syrup. 。I made a jam of summer oranges that I harvested in my garden. I made three and a half glass jars of summer orange jam.
I made a syrup out of oranges that my father-in-law grew and harvested in his garden. I got approximately 1.5 liters in a glass bottle of orange syrup.
I made a hot sandwich with burdock, cabbage, green pepper, carrot, ham, boiled egg and 2 typse of cheeses. I take photos of self made dishes for recode and memory all times.
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March 10th. TOKYO SKYTREE. 。I made a coleslaw salad with burdock, onion, cabbage, carrot, and green pepper. I had it with sliced tomatoes, grilled Atsuage, yogurt glanora, and cafe au le for my breakfast. My favorite way to cook Atsuage is to grilled. it
I had an Oinarisan and vegetable soup for my lunch.
I photographed the TOKYO SKYTREE from 60km away with RMC Tokina 400mm 1:5.6 No, 8601774.
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March 9th. RMC Tokina 400mm 1:5.6 No, 8601774. 。I had a hot sandwich with cream cheese and Anko, and a cup of cafe au le for my breakfast.
The lens at the back end of RMC Tokina 400mm 1:5.6 No, 8601774 was 2 glued together lenses. I noticed that the glue material has deteriorated, so I peeled it off and glued it again with a photopolymerized resin , but the result was not good. I can take pictures with it, but I don't think it's as capable as a new one. However, it's suitable for me.
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March 8th. cream cheese and Anko. 。I made a hot sandwich with cream cheese and Anko.
I made soup with a few kinds of vegetable and chicken balls for my evening meal.
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March 7th. UV photopolymerized resins. 。Ｉ made a hot sandwiche with two types of cheese, ham, onion, cabbage, carrot, and green pepper. I photographed with MACRO CANON LENS FL 50mm 1:3.5 No.30697.
I went to the Bando Center Library and borrowed three books about the photography.
I had vegetable soup and rice cooked with clams for my lunch.
I'm selling an electronic substrate of Toshiba libretto 30 on Yahoo auction. Up for auction starting from 770 yen. I'm glad give someone a good deal. The value of this substrate is is over 770 yen.
The back end lens of RMC Tokina 400mm 1:5.6 No, 8601774 is 2 lenses glued together. I noticed that the glue material has deteriorated. So, I bought UV photopolymerized resinｓ at Daiso for 110 yen.
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March 6th. I'm selling on Yahoo Auctions. 。I made soup with a few kinds of vegetables and chicken balls for my breakfast.
I had leftovers fronm breakfast, and tomato celery bean sprouts and lotus root salad, for my lunch.
I made a cream stew with salmon. I had it with my father-in-law for the evening meal.
I'm selling a Casio's electronic dictionary and Windows 95 installation CD-ROM on Yahoo Auctions.
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March 5th. a turret, 。I made a miso nikomi with tofu and a few kinds of vegetables for my breakfast.
I made a lunch box with tomato lettuce celery salad for my lunch. And I bought a Katsudon Bento from Iwamoto bento shop. I had my lunch at my Fossil-like Lens Renovation Factory.
This is a turret, a part of a bench lathe. I bought a used lathe the other day. It is the precision high-speed bench lathe PH6L-4H made by Eguro Iron Works Co, a bench race type. To be exact, I won the main body of the lathe for 10,000 yen on Yahoo Auctions. So I also go lathe parts needed for my lens renovation work using Yahoo Auction. I photographed with MACRO CANON LENS FL 50mm 1:3.5 No.30697.
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March 4th. RMC Tokina 400mm 1:5.6 No, 8601774 。I acquired this lens on Yahoo Auctions. The cost was 1,750 yen including shipping. I have never had a 400mm telephoto lens. Everything from the front lens to the aperture blades is very clean. There were no dasts and molds. However, the back lens was full of mold. I have to clean up.
I had soup with a few kinds of vegetables and gyozas, and sliced tomatoes celery salad for my breakfast.
I had the salad that is sliced tomatoes celery for lunch.
I had curry rice toppd with carrot flake, tomatoes celery lettuce salad, and rose wine.
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March 3rd. celery. 。I had a sauce yakisoba with a boiled egg, sliced tomato, yogurt granola and cafe au le.
I made soup with a few kinds of vegetable and chicken bowls. I had it with sliced celery tomatoes for my evening meal.
I got one share of celery from my younger brother. Sometimes he gets a lot of celery from a celery farmer of free. Maybe it is one of them.
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March 2nd. Michael sensei checked to my picture diary. 。I had Oden, sliced tomato and lettuce, granola yogurt and cafe au le for my breakfast.
Michael sensei checked to my picture diary of this January. And I received my papers last class from him. He corrected many errars in my English. I was able to know my weak points. For example, I got the S of San Tan Gen wrong more than 15 times. Zenchishi “a” and “the”. I got it wrong more than 20 times. Prepositions. I made a mistake in at least 5 times. And misspellings, 6 or more times. Irregular verbs and tenses more than 7 times. I made a lot of other mistakes too.
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March 1st. Oden and pork ribs Miso Nikom. 。I bought a lot of food yesterday. I cooked two types of dishis last night. One was Oden. Another was pork ribs Miso Nikomi. I boiled pork ribs with Sake, Negi, Garlic and salt. I used a pressure cooker dailied 20min, and left it until the morning.
In the morning, I reduced the broth by half, added Hatcho miso and other seasonings, and simmered further, brought at to a boil, cooled to room temperature, tested and adjusted the taste. I repeated several times.
I had Oden and salad selfmade for my breakfast.
I had pork ribs Miso Nikomi for my dinner.
