January 26, 2019

Saturday - Cold and snowy

We slept in today. F had made a big noise last night about getting up early and taking his mother to the onsen. He didn’t do it! I got up a couple of times to check email and use the loo, but he didn’t. He was complaining about his stomach again, so I sent him off to the doctor. He left.

I got up and heated up the room, had half a cup of coffee and worried about the snowplough that I’d heard go by. I went downstairs and checked out the window. Sure enough, the entrance to the yard was blocked. The snowplough had left mounds of snow there. 

I got dressed and went out and cleared the snow for F. It took about 45 minutes and he arrived back just as I was clearing the bit near the house. He was pretty glad that I had done all that work though, so that was nice.

We all went out to lunch together. F found a new to us noodle place and it wasn’t bad. They are a soba shop. I can take or leave soba (usually leave!), but this was quite good. K and I had niku-soba with tempura and F had zaru-soba and tempura. It’s quite rare to find a Japanese restaurant that stays open until 3, but this one was okay. It was called Fu-doh or something like that. 

We brought K back to the house and then F and I went out to run a few errands. He decided he needed chains for his car tyres, so we went looking for them. We got them at the second place we tried, and only after he asked about them.

We had some coffee in Komeda Coffee and used their lovely free wifi for a while. There was a cute little display outside in the snow.

Afterwards, I suggested going to the nearby grocery store and picking up some bentos for our dinner. Lunch was good but expensive, the chains were expensive and our coffee was expensive. F liked that idea. We found some nice food and brought it back to the house.

Dinner was good. F had to have his miso soup, but other than that it was fine. F was watching tennis from Australia, I don’t really like tennis. I took the dishes and other stuff into the kitchen and then washed everything. No big deal. 

I came upstairs and watched a little telly and drank some decaf tea.  F came up a bit later and played with his phone. Because it is quite cold outside, F turned off the water in the house and I’m rather annoyed. The dials are really stiff and hard to turn, so if I want to use the washroom I have to go downstairs and turn them on first. Grr.  I’m hoping it’ll warm up a lot so I don’t have to turn the water off afterwards!

Anyway, that is it for tonight. Tomorrow I’m not sure what we’ll get up to. I did work a little on my craftwork, but to be honest, I don’t really like it. I might rip it out again and make something else. We’ll see how it goes! Come back later and see what happens on Sunday. Until tomorrow….