March 9, 2024

Saturday - Snowy and cold

I woke up around 9 am this morning and when I went downstairs I looked out the window and saw a world of white. It had snowed overnight and kept snowing for much of the day. I did go back to bed for a bit, but dragged myself out of bed later and got dressed. 

F and I went over to our doctor’s office and for a change were a touch early. That almost never happens. We were seen after a long wait, finally! I had brought a book with me, Jennifer Weiner’s The Breakaway, and got stuck into it. It’s good so far. When it was payment time, F asked me if I could give him some money…Yes, I could as it happened. I paid him.  

Our car after 2 hours during the snow.

Along the street from the doctor's office.

Near the river in the middle of Tsuruoka.

We left the doctor’s office, although I was behind as it took me a while to put my boots on again. F was in the car and I wasn’t sure what he was doing. We had to go to the pharmacy next door. He was looking for money in the car. He didn’t have any, so I volunteered (!) to pay for our meds. We waited a few minutes at the pharmacy, but were soon on our way. We went to the bank and F paid me back. 

We talked about lunch then and went to a couple of places that we’d talked about trying. Sadly, neither of them were open for lunch. We ended up at our neighbourhood place, Kitchen Futaba. I had the pork meal and F had the fish. We were both pleased with them. They have raised their prices there, but I don’t think they were overpriced. F might though!

We ran a couple of errands after our meal. First F went to Musashi to pick up some wood for his fish tank. I stayed in the car. After that, we went to another hardware shop since F had forgotten to get screws. I did go into that one. I was looking for my new pot again. I found where they were in the shop, but sadly they didn’t have one that I liked. I did manage to drop the lid of one pot and it made a huge crashing noise when it hit the floor. Did I mention the store was having a big sales push and there were lots of people around? Big crash. I was embarrassed!

We came back to the house after this. Both F and I did a little bit of snow shovelling outside. In the house, I went upstairs. F stayed downstairs and welcomed his mother back and did whatever he needed to do for her.

Around 6 F came upstairs and asked about dinner. He was also wondering about his mother’s dinner. Since he didn’t want to take her out, I suggested using one of the packets of curry that I have in the kitchen. He disappeared for a while and then was back. He’d given her the last packet of curry from yesterday, plus rice and soup. 

We decided we’d go for sushi and since it was early, we could try to go to Kintaro Sushi. We drove over there, and did have to wait for a little while before we were seated. We had a nice meal. We could have most of our favourites, not all, F ordered a lot of stuff, but I ordered a bunch of rolls too. Yay me. 

After dinner, it was still a bit early, so I suggested a “second party”. I suggested either McDonald’s or Starbucks, so F chose Starbucks. When we got there, we ordered our drinks, I paid with my card and then F found a seat. We sat and enjoyed our drinks (decaf latte for him, chamomile tea latte for me). I read a lot of a novel on my phone and F watched YouTube or something. When it was time to go, I suggested going over to the nearby drugstore for a few minutes. We did that, and picked up a few things for ourselves. 

We came back to the house and settled in for the evening. I watched FBI at 11 pm and F had his phone and computer going on. 

F went off to bed and he’s snoozing away. I told him I plan to sleep in a bit tomorrow. I hope that we don’t get too much snow overnight….but it is forecast. We have no real plans for tomorrow. Today worked out, I hope tomorrow does too.

Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….