October 2024
 
 
 
October 31th. My friend and I climbed Mt.Hokyo.
  My friend Mr,Tokuno and I climbed Mt.Hokyo. He was the first time . We met at the pablic parking lot of the Mt.Hokyo trail hed at 10:30. 3 hours before my friend arrived at the meeting point, I went to take some photos of the stream at Mt.Hokkyo and Stone Buddha statues at the remains of the temple.
 He was very worried about that he would be able to reach the top, but he made it. We had the lunch at there, and safely descended. It was a fine and fun day and he was very happy. It was so much fun that we said we'd do it again, and then we parted ways.



October 30th. I return Iwai.
 It was a nice weather, so I decided to return to Iwai today.
 I had a morisoba regular serving at my favorite Ueda soba restaurant Katanaya before I return Iwai.

 I arrived at Iwai at 4:30 pm.
 I made yakisoba with lots of vegetables and a tomato and cucumber salad for my evening meal.

October 29th. Togakushi shrine Okusha.
 I visited to Togakushi shrine Okusha with my wife. I also visited Kagami-ike and took a few photos. I was glad that the leaves had turned red compared to the last time I came two weeks ago. Unfortunately, it was cloudy.
 I ate Togakushi soba at a restaurant at the entrance to the approach to Togakushi Shrine Okusha. I bought five Shinano-sweet apples from a Togakushi apple farmer at his direct shop on the way to Ueda. It was 200 yen each, and big and good. It was nice and reasonable.

 
 
 
October 28th. MasAoki Bakery.
 In Ueda, I don't cook. I just eat. But I have to do the shopping and wash the dishes. Still, it's comfortable and good.

 MasAoki Bakery, a bakery was opened in June 2024 along Prefectural Route 12 in Aoki Village that is a neighboring village of Ueda City. The bakery owner is Mr.Tokunaga who moved from Yokohama Kanagawa Prefecture. He opened his bakery with his parents who founded Bäckerei Tokutaro, a popular bakery also in Yokohama that was founded 34 years ago.
 My wife and I were curious as to why he chose Aoki Village instead of Yokohama, so we went to MasAoki Bakery to buy some bread in the morning.
 
 We had soba for our lunch at the soba restaurant Kusabue in Ueda.
 My wife and I went to take photos at Jisso-in Temple in the Sanada area until around 3pm. After that, we bought some food and went home.

 
 
 
 
 
 
October 27th. Early morning mountain view.
 I got up early in the morning and headed for the Ikenotaira Marsh with my cat Miya-O. We through the Joshinetsu Expressway at Higashi-Yunomaru Interchange at around 8am. From Jizo Pass, We headed for the Ikenotaira Marsh parking lot. We alived at around 8:30am.
 I climbed Mt. Miharu alone leaving my cat in my car. I reached the summit a little after 9 am. As expected, the view from the top in the early morning was amazing.
 I got off the mountain at 10:30. After that, I gave my cat her medicine and had my homemade lunch in my FJ.
 I took some photos of the Kannon statues on the road at Jizo Pass. I stayed there until 3pm. Meanwhile, my cat was in my car. We arrived in Ueda around 4 pm.
 
 I had dinner my wife has made with my family at my son`s home.



October 26th. vote early.
 I had beef curry rice, vegetable salad, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
 I joined Saturday English class at 10:00. I told everyone on Topics about the two unannounced phone calls I received this month from Mr,Michael. The calls were a very good training for me because I had to use all my English skills and respond instantly.
 I went to city hall around 5 pm to vote early. There, I joined an exit poll from the polling station conducted by NHK.
 I made vegetable soup and grilled vegetable with the cheese for my evening meal.


October 25th. the Photo Kano Club.
 I had asari gohan, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
 I went to Chikusei City to attend the monthly meeting of the Photo Kano Club. There are now only three members, including me. The other two are always willing to listen to me talk about photos and lenses. I'm very happy about that. I hope I can provide them with some useful topics to talk about.

 I had curry rice, and vegetable salad for my lunch.
 I had fried horse mackerel for my evening meal.


October 24th. Maybe I was still tired.
 I waked up late than usual. Maybe I was still tired from the mountain climb day before yesterday.
 I made my breakfast the whole 60 minutes to using a lot of vegetables. Boiled eggs, vegetable salad, vegetable soup, and more, for my two meals.

 It was the Thursday, Torisen senior service day. So I went to buy daily food.
 I had fried horse mackerel that I bought at Torisen, and some dishes that I made it in the morning for my evening meal.
 I also made Asari takikomi gohan(clam rice). I changed the recipe to mix the green vegetables after turning off the heat, so the color comes out beautifully.


October 23th. Sleepy day.
 I made my meal as a usual. I didn't want to do other things, I didn't care. I slept 2 hours in the afternoon. Maybe I was tired because yesterday climing. What's more, I felt sleepy at the usual time at night and went to bed.

 
 
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October 22th. Mt. Hokyo.
 I climbed Mt. Hokyo. I arrived at the trailhead at 9:30. This time, I chose the Gokurakuji hiking trail to take photos of the small waterfalls. It's been a while since I last hike this trail in the morning. I reached the top at 12:30. I had lunch at there. On the way back same course, I took many photos and got off the mountain at 3:00 pm. I went shopping at Costco and returned home. I enjoyed Mt.Hokyo all day today.

 
 
October 21th. Misuzu Ame.
 I went to my factory for the first time in a while. I did some simple part processing work there.
 I ran about 3 km in Yasaka Park.
 I made all my meals today by myself.

 In front of Ueda Station, there are several buildings belonging to Misuzu Ame Honpo. These are registered tangible cultural properties. Misuzu Ame is a traditional sweet that has been made by Iijima Shouten since the Meiji periods. It's a candies like jelly beans.
 I don't like candies like jelly beans. But I was interested in the historical background of how Iijima Shoten, founded in the Edo period, became Misuzu Ame Honpo, so I bought some. I enjoy Misuzu Ame with the history of Misuzu Ame Honpo Iijima Shoten.

https://misuzuame.com/html/outline.htm

October 20th. sorted out the receipts.
 I made sunny side up eggs, vegetable salad, toast, and cafe au lait for my breakfast. I also made a stew with carrots, onions, potatoes, and deep-fried tofu.
 
 Miya-O likes this sunny windowsill in the morning. She spends most of her time in the same place, choosing a comfortable spot and moving two or three times a day.
 When I did desk work, she alwas stayed at between me and the PC monitor. So, she was on my desk and there were the rubber stamps box for accounting slips under her head. I thought it was uncomfortable for her. But she likes it there.

 After sunset, I walked about 4 kilometers through Yasaka Park.

October 19th. I drove from Ueda to Iwai.
 I bought 20 Jimanyakis in Ueda, 10 for my yunger brother and 10 for myself. I drove from Ueda to Iwai with my cat. We arrived in Iwai around 4:30 pm.
 
 My yunger brother had moved the mails that had piled up in my entrance mailbox to my garage. It was for security reasons. There was also some free lettuces there. He brought it.

 I cooked my evening meal myself.



 
 
October 18th. Boulangerie fil.
 My wife cooked meals today.
 My wife and I went to a bakery Boulangerie fil which opened in August Ueda. We bought four kinds of bread. We had them and cafe au lait for our lunch.

 
 
 
 
 
October 17th. I climbed Mt.Jitkan.
 My wife went to her clinic for her knee rehabilitation, and I walked around Yanagimachi, Ueda Castle Park and took some photos.

 My wife and I had soba at Katanaya for our lunch.
 In the afternoon, we climbed Mt.Jitkan. It is located in Aoki Village, next to Ueda, and is about 1,284 meters hight. The Shinshu Insectarium at the trailhead is at 990 meters, with difference of 300 meters and a distance of about 2 km. It was a short hike, but the slope was steep and I was sweating profusely.
 From the top, I got a good view of Aoki Village and Ueda City, and in the distance I even saw Komoro City.



 
October 16th. My wife cooked the meal today too.
 When I'm in Ueda, I don't have to think about cooking. Except for helping with grocery shopping. It's very happy and delicious. My wife cooked the meal today too.
 My cat stayed in my FJ parked in a nearby paid parking lot everyday. I had to care her watering feeding cleaning her toilet, giving medecin. The work wasn't that difficult compared to cooking a meal.

 After sunset, I walked around Ueda Castle Park and took some photos.

 
 
 
 
 
October 15th.  Togakushi Shrine Nakasha.
 When I stayed my son's residence in Ueda, I never worried about my meals all of the day. Because my wife made it or we went out.
 My wife made our breakfast in this morning.

 My son took paid leave. We visited the Togakushi Shrine Nakasha and the surrounding area, Kotorigaike Pond and Kagami Ike Pond. We had Togakushi soba for lunch. Also enjoyed soba manju tempura, soba karinto.
 

 A white mushroom, details unknown. I don't know much about mushrooms. However, I often take photos of them while walking through the forest. Because their shapes and colors are interesting.

 My wife made the evening meal.


 
 
 
 
October 14th. Mt. Eboshidake.
   It was really fine day. My wife and I decided to climb Mt. Eboshidake. It is 2,066m hight, but the trailhead Jizo Pass is 1,732m, so the difference is just 330m, about the same as climbing Mt.Tsukuba from Tsukuba Jinjya.
 I can see Mt.Eboshidake every time every where from Ueda city, and I visited Jizo pass many times. However I climbed Mt Eboshidake the first time. The way distance was longer than Mt.Tsukuba. So I had to take more times than Mt.Tsukuba climing. Hawever the slope was gentlly. So it was easer than Mt.Tsukuba.
 
 I went to the Italian restaurant Cannery Row Ueda with my family for dinner. If you order a main course such as spaghetti, pizza, and more appetizers and desserts are served buffet style. Every dish was great, and the cost was about 3000 yen each person. I`d like to go again.

Cannery Row Ueda
上田市常田3丁目8−416−1
営業開始: 11:00
0268-71-5766

 
 
October 13th. I left for Ueda .
 I had asari gohan, grilled atsuage, and sliced tomato for my breakfast.
 I left for Ueda at 8:30, my cat with me. It was a center day of three straight holiday. The highway was a crowded, I knew it and I was prepared. I took more than 2 hours than usual.
 I arrived the Tobu Yunomaru Interchange at 12:00. Then I went to Jizo pass and I took a few photographs each of stone statues No8,9,10,25,26, 39, of the One Hundred Kannon that are at approximately 110-meter intervals.
 I arrived Ueda 5:00 p.m. I had evening meal with my family my wife has made it.

 
October 12th. I might try this method again next time.
  I put the ingredients for graham bread in my electric bread maker last night and set the timer so that it would be done this morning. I woke up realy early this morning and realized I had forgotten to put the dry yeast in my bread maker. I stopped the automatic process and added the dry yeast manually. Then I transferred the dough to a Dutch oven and baked it in a gas oven.
 I was able to recover from my mistake. The bread turned out differently than usual, but it was more delicious than usual. I might try this method again next time.



October 11th. I wasn't hungry.
 I made the breakfast as usual, but had light lunch and evening meal. I did nothing work so I wasn't hungry.

October 10th. Mr,Michael called me.
  I ate a lot of vegetables and wakame seaweed for my breakfast.
 Mr Michael called me at around 9 am. I registrate Mr,Michael phone number already in my iPhone, so answered it soon. He said his backpack was founded. It was good. So I don't need to print out new of my English diary. He called to let me know. Thanks for calling.
 I had chicken ramen for my lunch.
 My cat was in a warm place lot today.

October 9th. nice weather !
 I made two servings of Sauce Yakisoba in the morning. So my breakfast and my evening meal were almost the same menu.
 It rained all day and was cold. My cat stayed near my computer monitor or in my bed.
 Until now, it was too hot to even enter my lens renovation factory, but now that the temperature is nice, I want to modify the fossil-like lenses.



October 8th. Just the two of us.
 It is Funky AKO Yougaku Eigo Hatsuon Kouza (English Pronunciation Lesson for singing English songs) in YouTube. The songs she uses for practice are "Just the two of us". This song is divided into a total of 10 contents. 1 to 6 are the word pronunciation practice. It takes 60 minutes to watch them all, but I try to watch them once a day. I started this practice past more than 10 days. Recently my i-Phone catch my pronunciation different between l and r. also th and z. I am happy little bit.

 My wife gets really worried if I don't have enough vegetables in my meals, so I try to buy a lot of vegetables and cook them.

October 7th. Eat that I want
 I made the instant Ramen Chalumera and coleslaw salad for my breakfast. I also had grilled atsuage. My wife laughed me when I had an instant Ramen early in the morning. It seems to be funny and stupid things as her feeling of meals. It is the natural in my mind. I eat things I wish at the time.
 I had hot sandwich and cafe au leit for my lunch.


 
 
October 6th. her stewed pork offal.
 The Center Festival of the Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center is a gathering of groups related to the center, with presentations, exhibitions, and practical training.
 The Photo Kano Club was formed by people who have taken photography courses at the center. There are only three members at present including me. A total of 14 works were collected for this exhibition. 
 The performance that interested me the most was by the Shimodate Technical High School Jazz Band Club. The performance was only 30 minutes long, but it was very exciting. It was amazing and I want to hear it again.

 I made my breakfast and evening meal as usual.
 For lunch, I went to a soba restaurant with a menber of the Photo Kano Club. His sister is running it, and delicious. I especially liked her stewed pork offal more than soba, it was the best delicious thing I've ever had in my life.



October 5th. the Photo Kano Club.
 I went to the Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center in Chikusei City. Tomorrow, there will be a photo exhibition by the Photo Kano Club I belong to at the center festival. I went there today to prepare for it.

 I cooked and ate my breakfast and my evening meal at my home as usual, but missed the chance to eat the lunch.

 
October 4th. Yasaka Park about 3 km.
 I cooked three meals a day, as usual.
 I run Yasaka Park about 3 km in a long time.

 After talking to Mr,Michael on the phone the other day, I realized the importance of English pronunciation, again. So, I practice everyday and I watch the Funky Ako English pronunciation practice YouTube channel once everyday. With my cat.
 

October 3rd.  Yasaka Park.
 I walked around Yasaka Park about 5 km.

 For my breakfast, I had a Jimanyaki is the soul food of Ueda citizens, granola yogurt, coleslaw salad, and cafe au lait. 
 For my lunch, I had mixed anko and sweet potato, cheese toast , coleslaw salad with pickled myoga, and cafe au lait.
 For my evening meal, I had tofu, sliced tomato, cabbage, mixed anko and sweet potato. I also made asari gohan.


 

October 2nd. The unannounced phone call.
 I made pumpkin and pork curry and served it with multigrain rice for my brakfast. I also had grilled atsuage, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait.
 I had grilled eggplant, chicken nuggets, sliced ​​tomatoes, coleslaw salad, and non alcoholic beer for my evening meal.

 I was my home and watched YouTube channels with a cup of coffee and my cat. I relaxed in the morning.
 At about 11 am, my iPhone rang. Usually I never answer to no registered phone number in my iPhone. However it was a fixed phone number and a same area as my home phone number. So, I caught it. I answered. Someone was speaking English. I thought it was a wrong call.
 After a few seconds, I realized I'd heard that voice before. I remembered Mr Michael's voice.
 Yes Mr,Michael called me. I panicked while a few second. Because Noriko sensei wasn't nearby, so I had to transrat all of English words Mr Michael speaking.
 After calming down for a moment, the first sound I heard was ”backpack”. The next word was ”lost”. Mr Michael lost his backpack. Maybe. So, Why did he call me? In an instant, I thought I have to looking for his backpack together, near here. No, no. I heard the third, lost an English diary. So, Mr, Michael called me because he had lost his backpack and the printouts of my English diary were in it.
 I felt like I had finally succeeded in having a conversation with him in English. The unannounced phone call from Mr,Michael was a really good way to practice my English conversation. Sometimes I wished he would call me unannounced.


 
 
October 1st.  NHK TV program introducing Tsugaru region. 
 I warmed up raw egg on brown rice in the microwave. I had it, grilled atsuage, coleslaw salad, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
 I made tandoori chicken style from my recip. I had it, wakame and myouga salad, and tofu for my evening meal.
 While I was eating my evening meal, I watched NHK TV program introducing Tsugaru region, about gods, foods, customs, and more. I felt nostalgic because I had known those scenes for a before. And I thought I want to visit to there.



October 2024  

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