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January 6th. MomofuQ's croissant. My wife cooked breakfast for us. She head back to Ueda from Shimizu Park Station at 11am, so I drove her there. On the way, we each bought two croissants at MomofuQ.
I had cream stew, apples, a croissants, and cafe au lait for my lunch. MomofuQ's croissant costs 230 yen, and although it looks almost the same as the Backenbart croissant I've been buying, it's 40 yen cheaper. Maybe the taste is almost the same. let's next compare the two more accurately by eat both at the same time.
I bought a sheet of plywood measuring 1800 x 90 x 4 mm at Homac. I used it to repair my wife's best friend's chair. I spent the afternoon repairing the chair. I cut three 450 x 330 x 4 mm boards out of the plywood and drilled four 10 mm diameter holes in each. I then glued them to the underside of the seat with wood glue. I finished by tightening the four mounting screws. I wait about two days for the glue to fully harden. The temperature is cold right now, in summer one day would be enough.
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January 5th. Sewing. My wife made breakfast and coffee. Food and coffee made by someone else tastes better than myself.
Sewing is one of my wife's hobbies. She made her a coat and pants. She seems to enjoy every step of the process, from choosing the fabric to the buttons. She also owns two sewing machines. One of them is apparently a professional model for special purposes. It looks fun. I can relate to the joy of making things.
My wife and I went to bakery Backenbart in Moriya and bought four kinds of bread. After that, we bought Starbucks coffee at the Moriya Service Area on the Joban Expressway (inbound). We also bought and had ebimayotenn. This is a shrimp tail wrapped in white fish paste, deep-fried, and topped with mayonnaise.
My wife and I went to the hospital where my father-in-law was hospitalized at 3pm. We met with him for about 30 minutes. He was well aware of the situation and seemed in better spirits than I expected.
My wife made turnip and potato stew and spinach and tuna salad for our evening meal.
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January 4th. Two broken chairs. In the afternoon, I took my wife to her best friend's house in Moriya City. We chatted for a while over coffee and sweets.
Her husband used to work for Canon in the US for several years, and she was with him. Her favorite chair, which she bought in the US at the time, broke. She had four chairs in total, but one had already broken and her husband had thrown it away. Now, two of the remaining three have broken. She doesn't want to throw them away. The broken part was the seat panel. I thought it could be repaired by adding a reinforcement plate and gluing it back together. So I offered to repair the chair.
Afterwards, I went to the Wonder Rex Moriya store to check out the market prices for used cameras and junk camera lenses. I couldn't find any attractive junk items.
My wife chatted with her friends until around 5pm. I picked her up and I also loaded two broken chairs belonging to my wife's friend into the FJ.
My wife's friend gave us some instant ramen that her favorite. I made this instant ramen with lots of vegetables for our evening meal. The soup was thick and the texture of the noodles was different from Charumera. It was very delicious.
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January 3rd. It snowed last night.It snowed last night. A little snow accumulated, and the surroundings were covered in white. I made vegetable omelette for our breakfast.
My wife went running and my son went to my brother-in-law's clinic to get a cavity treated.
I took my telephoto lens and went to take pictures of the snowy scenery.
My wife made roast pork for our evening meal.
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January 2nd. A New Year party. My wife made shiruko for our breakfast. And she made a cake, poteto salad for a new year's party.
My brother-in-law held a New Year party. He and his wife prepared several New Year's dishes and nigiri sushi sets. Their eldest daughter attended with her husband and one-year-old son. Their eldest son attended with his wife and three-month-old baby. His cousin and her son also attended. Of course, my wife, my son, and I also attended. I brought braised pork belly, and my wife brought a strawberry decorated cake.
A total of 13 people enjoyed the half day. The only thing that was disappointing was that my father-in-law was hospitalized and couldn't join us. He fell and injured himself end of last year. It wasn't a serious injury, but because he's elderly, he decided to take precautions and go to the hospital to get a thorough checkup.
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January 1st. Happy New Year. The New Year's dishes and ozoni prepared by my wife were lined up. The usual New Year's Day breakfast is ready.
I've retired from work and my son have been adults for a long time, so I don't have things mast to do, my time doesn't flow clearly for me. That's why the line between Omisoka and New Year's is blurred.
Anyway, I hope to have another peaceful year.
Happy New Year to you too, Miao.
This New Year's dishes were photographed with a Petri Camera EE Auto C.C. Petri 1:1.7/55 274122. This is a Gaussian lens with six elements in four groups, manufactured between 1974 and 1977. I acquired it on Yahoo! Auctions in 2019 for 730 yen. There were some dirt and signs of use, very little mold, small scratches around the glass of the front and rear lenses. However they were worth the purchase price. I'm using them with pleasure.
I've been simmering pork over the heat of the kerosene stove all day for tomorrow's New Year's party.
We all had unadon for our evening meal. It was a gift from my wife's nephew, and it was a stock of pre-cooked frozen meals in my rifuge.
