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May 31th. Sell them or throw them.I made yakisoba noodles with lots of vegetables and put it in two lunch boxes.These aluminum boxes are combat ration boxes from the French army. I bought them at an antique shop in Kasama about 20 years ago. I decided to use it as a lunch box.
I have a lot of small items. In the past, I probably bought them because I wanted to own them. But from now on, I decided things I don't use just get in the way. So I'll try to use them. If I can't use them, or if they're hard to use, I'll sell them or throw them away.
I discovered that if I grate frozen Parmigiano Reggiano cheese with this cheese slicer, it turns into powdered cheese.
For my evening meal, I had pork curry rice, which I made and froze.
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May 30th. Takikomi Asari Gohan or Asari Maze Gohan.I made clam rice. Previously, I cooked clams, vegetables, and other ingredients together with rice. That's Takikomi Asari Gohan. But this time, I mixed stewed ingredients like clams, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and burdock with freshly cooked rice that's been cooked sweet corn. That's why it's called Asari Maze Gohan. Maze is more delicious than Takikomi.
I had it for my breakfast, also I had sliced tomato, poteto salad, vegitable soup.
I had Charumera for lunch.
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May 29th. Comesta.My wife made our breakfast.
We went to a Italian restrant Comesta in Noda City for the first time in a while. We had pizza made with Moromi, a by-product of soy sauce production, and spaghetti with scallops and tomato sauce topped with ooba.
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May 28th. A single species plant grows in a pot.Alternating rain and clear skies helps plants grow quickly.The potted plants in my entrance way have grown beautifully.
I don't even know the name. I've collected some from roadsides and parks. I think it's beautiful when a single species plant grows in a pot.
In the afternoon I went to my usual barber and got a haircut.
My wife cooked three meals today.
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May 27th. A salty ramen.My wife came back from Ueda City. I went to Shimizu kouen station and picked her up at 3:40. Then we went to Tsukuba city. I bought some groceries at Costco. Kiwi, Sansyo-flavored rice crackers, yogurt, potatoes, shimeji mushrooms, and more.
We had our evening meal at Ganko Ramen in Tsukuba City. This was our first visit. For me, there was too much salt. The dashi was good, but the salt ruined it. It was really ruined.
Some people like this. They leave nice comments on the web. Few people leave bad comments in Japan.
To find the ramen that suits me, I have to try it at least once. However this requires effort and money, so I end up going to my usual restaurant where I can be sure it will be a success. This pattern is not limited to ramen.
This requires effort and money, so I end up going to my usual restaurant, where I can be sure it will be a success.It’s not limited to the ramen.
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May 26th. Lawn mowing.I had sliced tomatoes, ham, potato salad, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
In the morning, I mowed the lawn using my Karibarai-ki.
For my lunch I had sliced tomatoes, baked potatoes and cafe au lait.
In the afternoon, I cleaned up the cut grass.
For my evening meal I had pork curry rice.
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May 25th. Waffles.The waffle maker hasn't been used for a while because no one uses it except my wife. So I decided to try using it to bake waffles. It was my first attempt. I made the dough a little too hard, but it was nicely baked and crispy.
I had it and also had scrambled tofu, sliced tomatoes, baked potato, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
I baked graham bread using my electric bread maker.
I put Miya-O in a shoe bag and gave her medicine.
She always eats a little food after taking her medicine, which apparently is to wipe away the roughness that comes from the small carbon particles in the medicine.
I had grilled chicken with miso nut paste, sliced tomatoes, broccoli and potato salad for my evening meal.
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May 24th. I had really many of tomatoes today.I had pork curry rice for my breakfast.
For my lunch, I had cheese ham toast, cucumber, tomato, vinegared seaweed, and boiled egg.
I had a lot of tomatoes and potato salad for my evening meal. I had many tomatoes today.
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May 23rd. free tomatoes and cucumbers.I made Charumera with a lot of vegetables and soybeans for my
breakfast.
I went to Chikusei City to attend the monthly meeting of the Photo Kano Club.
My younger brother brought me lots of free tomatoes and cucumbers.
I had the fried horse mackerel I bought at Torisen and the tomatoes and cucumbers I was given for my lunch.
I made pork curry rice for my evening meal. I usually make six servings at once. I freeze the rest in individual servings.
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May 22nd. TPM.For my breakfast, I had grilled Atsuage, grilled broccoli, coleslaw salad, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait.
TPM is a Trusted Platform Module. It is a hardware chip that enhances device security. This is not an ASUS genuine part in the photo, but the cost is 1/6 of the original ASUS product. I bought it because I confirmed that the pin assignment is the same in the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 manual. I installed correctly, so its LED lights up. However, the OS freezes during startup. There is no TPM item in the BIOS settings. So I performed Clear RTC RAM with a jumper pin. After that, the OS started normally. And I was able to upgrade to Windows 11. It seemed to function normally, but when I checked the device security items in Windows 11, it was not supported. By the way, before installing it, I got an error code 0xc1900101-0x40017 and failed to upgrade to 11. In conclusion, it can be used to bypass the necessary requirements when upgrading to Windows 11, but I presume it does not have any actual device security function. This is not an ASUS genuine part, but there are successful cases. Therefore, it is more appropriate to consider it a non-compatibility of the P6T Deluxe V2 rather than a fraudulent product.ASUS provided the P6T Deluxe V2 with a socket for a TPM chip, but did not provide a corresponding BIOS version. Perhaps they decided that the market did not need it.
I guess I'm wrong for continuing to use a 17-year-old PC.
I was a little disappointed. To refresh myself, I walked around Yasaka Park. I walked about 6km.
For my lunch, I made hot sandwiches with sausage, vegetables, and cheese.
It stopped being hot after 4 o'clock. I weeded the ground.
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May 21st. a traffic accident.I had a negi tofu beef bowl that was leftover from last night for my breakfast. I also had granola yogurt, coleslaw salad, and cafe au lait.
I baked potatoes in a Dutch oven, and ate it for my lunch. I also had boiled eggs, coleslaw salad, tofu with vinegared wakame, and natto.
One day, I found a plant with unfamiliar leaves by the roadside. It was blooming. I looked it up with Google Lens and found out it was an Silverberry tree. In Japan it is called Gumi.
At 5pm, I was startled by a loud noise and looked out the window, and saw a traffic accident. Outside my window there is an intersection accidents occur frequently.
I went closer to the scene. there were no serious injuries and no fires, so I went back home.
I had grilled hanpen, grilled potatoes, grilled Atsuage, granola yogurt, and coleslaw salad for my evening meal.
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May 20th. I sprayed herbicides.I made vegetable, sausage and gyoza soup. I also made soba noodles, although I just boiled some dried soba noodles for my breakfast.
I sprayed herbicides in the morning. I used 2-4-D and glyphosate. I sprayed each at the appropriate concentration in the appropriate place. Recently, the effect has been spotty. Next time, I will try to increase the amount sprayed per unit area while keeping the concentration at the specified value.
The roses are blooming beautifully, but there are a lot of aphids on them. I'll have to spray them with insecticide soon.
I got a lot of free negi. I made negi tofu beef bowl for my evening meal.
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May 19th. Miya-O was relaxing in her wooden box,I made grilled broccoli, shimeji mushrooms, carrots, fried eggs, coleslaw salad, potato salad, sliced tomatoes, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
Today again, Miya-O was relaxing in her wooden box, after breakfast and her medicine time. She seems to like it very much. I was sure she would liked it, I just didn't know she'd like it this much.
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May 18th. It was Sunday.It was Sunday. I made grilled chicken with BBQ sauce and grilled veggies for my breakfast. I made my lunch box with the same thing.
I also had sliced tomato, baked potato, granola yougrt and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
After breakfast and her medicine, Miya-O was relaxing in the box. She seems to really like it.
All of the components were now in place and the wiring is complete. Now it's time to install the OS and applications.
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May 17th. in the wooden box.Around 5 o'clock every day when I wake up, Miya-O is already awake and asking for food. Sometimes she wakes me up earlier. That's a bit annoying, but I bet she's really hungry. After I feed her, I prepare my own meals and do the laundry, and things.
After I finish my meal, it's time for her medicine. Before, I would have to search for her all over my house during her medicine time, but now she's usually in the wooden box, so I don't have to search for her.
I made a potato salad and a boiled sausage for my evening meal.
My PC remodeling is nearing completed. Today, I was sorting out the wiring.
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May 16th. the peony garden.I made soba noodles with several kinds of vegetable, chicken meatballs, and an eggs for my breakfast. I also had granola yogurt, tomato cucumber wakame salad.
Friday is collection day for burnable garbage. This morning, when I took out the garbage, I let Miya-O out for a bit. When the neighbor called out to her, "Oh, what a cute kitty," she ran back inside. She's not used to the outside world.
I went to Tsukuba in the morning and had Seiro soba at my favorite soba restaurant Kimura. I filled up the tank of my FJ at Costco and bought some food. I came back at 4:00.
She really loves the wooden box. She always seems to want to be here.
In the evening, I went to the peony garden in Yasaka Park to take photos. I used the KURIBAYASHI coated orikon Anastigmat 1:3.5 f=75mm No.482092.
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May 15th. Miya-O chan's cottage.I made sauce yakisoba with a fried eggs for my breakfast. I also had mapo daikon and cafe au lait.
I spent almost the entire day modifying my computer with my cat.
Today was Thursday, so I went shopping at Torisen in the evening. I bought some kinds of vegetable and a pack of clams. I made a salad with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, and spaghetti with celery and clams for my evening meal.
Miya-O chan love this wooden box after all. She was playing with it. I decided to call this wooden box Miya-O chan's cottage.
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May 14th. mapo daikon.My younger brother gave me a daikon yestaday.
I made mapo daikon. I diced some daikon, fried it, and mixed it with some ready-made mapo sauce I bought at the co-op. I also made mapo tofu using the same sauce. I had them with sliced tomato, granola youglt, cafe au lait for my breakfast. I also had them with fried rice for my lunch.
I had sliced tomatoes, pickled wakame seaweed, pickled turnip, curry-flavored potato croquettes, boiled fish sausages, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my evening meal.
Yesterday, I polished up a wooden speaker box and gave it to Miya-O as her home. She seems to like it and has been in and out of it several times.
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May 13th. A wooden box and my cat.I had a leftover hot sandwich from yesterday, granola yogurt, and cafe au lait for my breakfast. After giving my cat her medicine, I walked to Yasaka Park. The peonies were blooming. I took some photos.
I had chicken ramen for my lunch. After that, I walked to my lens factory. It was about 3 km. I took some photos on the way. This walking was also a field test of the OLYMPUS OM-SYSTEM E.ZUIKO AUTO-T 1:3.5 f=135mm No.283756.
This wooden box was made about 70 years ago (by my father, who ran a radio store) for a speaker with a diameter of about 30 cm. It seems to have been used as a loudspeaker to attract customers. I recently found it in the storehouse at my parents' house.
I polished the surface of it with sandpapers. Starting today, it has become a home for my cat. It was to do this job that I went to the factory.
Miya-O chan seems to like it.
My brother-in-law's hoe was missing a wedge. It was a handy hoe used for digging bamboo shoots. I made a wedge out of a piece of junk iron that was discarded in my younger brother's warehouse and hammered it into the hoe. I did a perfect job.
I had pork curry rice, pickled turnip, sliced tomatoes, vinegared wakame seaweed, and cold-brewed tea for my evening meal.
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May 12th. Mt.Hokｙo.Today, I was planning to climb Mt.Hokｙo with my classmate Yuki and her best friend Me. It was still raining at 6:00 in the morning. We met at 8:30. It was still raining a little.
We changed our plans and decided to go to a hot spring in Sano. The rain stopped while I was filling up with gas in Sakaimachi, so we decided to go to Mt. Hokyo after all. However, Me's shoes were not suitable for the muddy conditions after the rain, so we went to her house to change them.
We arrived at the parking lot of Mt. Hokko around 11:00. What's more, we had to go down by 2:00. We probably wouldn't make it to the top. We decided to turn back from the point when we reached 12:30. As expected, we didn't reach the top, but we had lunch nearby the top and went down.
Luckily there were two places along the way where the clouds were thin and we could see a wide view. I hope they will use this experience to prepare for their next mountain hike.
I took Miya-O outside for a walk. I had leftovers for my evening meal.
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May 11th. squid tempura soba.I made squid tempura soba for my breakfast. I also had Ebideako. I bought the squid tempura at Torisen a few days ago. I had it frozen and stored at home.
I mowed part of my lawn with kalibaraiki. I also sprayed other parts with a selective herbicide. The grass has really grown while I was away for a few days.
The wild roses are blooming in abundance. I sprayed them with insecticide before I left, but the aphids are starting to appear again.
Miyao was tired. He's been sleeping all day. Apparently, domestic cats spend two-thirds of their day sleeping, most of which is in REM sleep. Cats' eyes are very sensitive, so they prefer to nap in dimly lit places.
Starting at 6pm, we had a birthday party for Shige-chan with seven of his junior high school classmates at an izakaya. This time, I didn't drink beer because it made me cough when I was drunk.
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May 10th. It's about time to eat it.Since yesterday, I've repeated heating and cooling Ebideako (shrimp daikon) more than six times. And then I left it overnight. It's well seasoned and it's about time to eat it. My father-in-law loves it, so I gave him some.
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May 9th. Sauteed negi, and Ebideako.My younger brother brought me some negis and daikons. I sauteed the negis in olive oil and garlic. I had them as side dishes for all three meals today.
I also made Ebideako(shrimp daikon). I heated and cooled it several times until the flavors are fully absorbed. I'll left this until tomorrow.
Miya-O chan warmed up with the heat from the fan duct of my laptop PC.
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May 8th. I made two side dishes for the bento.I made two side dishes for the bento: Dashimaki Tamagoyaki (egg roll) and a stir-fry of onions, bok choy, and bonito flakes.
I had half of them with granola yogurt, clams rice seaweed rolls, and cafe au lait for my breakfast.
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May 7th. I left Ueda at 1:00 pm.In the morning, my wife and I walked around Ueda Castle Ruins Park, Shopping Mall Ueda Ario. Some old western-style wooden houses remain in Ueda.
My wife often visits Miyao Shoten, a sewing and handicrafts store near Ueda Station, where she says it's a convenient place to get buttons and other sewing materials. The store's name is Palacetail, a direct English translation of the kanji for the family name, Miyao.
We had a lunch at a restaurant run by a rice shop that sells set meals, bento boxes, and side dishes. It was delicious and reasonably priced. It's a hidden gem that only native Ueda residents know about. My wife heard about it from an acquaintance who is also a Ueda resident.
I left Ueda at 1:00 pm and returned to Iwai with my cat. I didn't have any fresh vegetables in stock so I went to Torisen to buy some. I also bought some mackerel and simmered it with miso and nut paste. I also made a tomato and lettuce salad. I had them with a bento I bought from the hidden gem in Ueda for my dinner.
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May 6th. Food runs out quickly.My wife cooked three meals today.
With three people, food runs out quickly. Especially fresh vegetables, which can't be stored in large quantities. My wife and I went out to buy groceries.
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May 5th. Sanada District. My son was off today, so he, my wife and I went to Sanada together.
In the morning, we went to Shinkoji Temple which is associated with the Sanada clan, Jisso-in Temple, where the Kakezukuri Kannon Hall is located, and Sengo-no-taki Falls.
The Sanada district is the birthplace of a famous military commander Sanada during the Sengoku period, and many historical sites and related temples remain. Shinkoji is one of them.
Jisso-in Temple was founded in 725. The current Kannon Hall was relocated and rebuilt in 1783. There were no tourists there. I liked it because I could enjoy the scenery quietly and slowly.
"Sengo-no-taki" is written in kanji as 千古の滝. The kanji 古 pronounced Ko usualy, and it cannot be pronounced as Go . However, native Sanada people pronounce it as Sengo. I think that Ko was mispronounced to become the voiced Go. I still can't get used to it, so I say it as Senko. I speculate that in the old Sanada dialect, "Ko" became the voiced consonant "Go." Alternatively, it's possible that a different kanji (for example: 護,醐,後）with a voiced Go was originally assigned to Go, but was replaced with an easier, more positive kanji 古. Either way, it's just my speculation, and I'd like to verify it someday.
I had lunch at Soba Restaurant Sanada near the Sanada History Museum Oyashiki Park. I've been to this restaurant a few times, and always ordered a regular serving. I always felt like it wasn't quite enough. So today I ordered a large serving. However, when I looked at the menu, there was a medium serving in between the regular and large servings. This restaurant only had small, regular, medium, and large servings. (At Katanaya, the servings are small, medium, regular, and large.) What a mistake. I wouldn't be able to finish the large serving that was at Katanaya. The serving was slightly smaller than the large serving at Katanaya, and I was able to finish it.
In the afternoon, we walked around Oyashiki Park, then Sanada Honjo Ruins Park. The Oyashiki and Sanada Honjo Castle were where the Sanada clan lived before they moved to Ueda Castle.
We enjoyed the day as a family of three.
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May 4th. Waza Mart.My wife cooked three meals in a day. I'm grateful for that. Today, my wife and I went to Waza Mart to buy some breads from Wazawaza. Waza Mart is located in the neighboring city of Tomi, in an area surrounded by Satoyama scenery.
On the way home, we stopped by Kokubu Marche and bought some vegetables.Kokubu Marche is a Nagano JA store. My wife says the vegetables and meat are good. The fish is also good, imported from Toyama.
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May 3rd. The UEDA VERTICAL RACE. The UEDA VERTICAL RACE is a skyrunning (mountain climbing race) held every year on May 3rd and 4th in Ueda City.
https://www.uedavertical.com/
In the morning, my wife and I walked to Oohoshi Shrine, the starting point, to cheer on the runners. The Aoki Village Gimin Taiko Preservation Society performed there. I photographed with my Chiyoko Promar.s 2 1:3.5 f=75cm No.53743.
In the afternoon, my wife and I walked to "Kibi Craft". It was founded as a furniture repair shop in 2009, and in 2015 opened a furniture repair workshop and a store selling antique furniture and miscellaneous goods in Ueda City. I think the selection of antique furniture is excellent, and the repair techniques are solid. However my wife was looking for vintage clothing, not furniture.
Last year, she bought two second-hand Ralph Lauren shirts at this market for 1,980 yen each. A second-hand Ralph Lauren shirt that she saw last year was being sold for 980 yen this year. It was a fairly large size, so it must have remained unsold. But it fit our son perfectly, so my wife bought two.
On the way home, we stopped off at the book and tea shop NABO.They are basically a bookstore, with a mix of new and used books. They also serve tea and snacks, but no coffee. You can read books while drinking tea. You can also buy books. In the same chain of stores, books that are just before the paper recycling bin are sold for 50 yen each.
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May 2nd. Pick up at convenience store.It was mostly cloudy today. So the temperature inside my FJ didn't rise either. There was no need to worry about my cat in my FJ.
I went out with my wife. We had tempura and soba at my favorite soba restaurant Katanaya. We strolled around Yanagi-machi. A Nepalese food store has opened. It is full of beans and various types of spices and seasonings that are not available in supermarkets. My wife asked the young Nepalese salesman a lot of questions and later purchased two types of beans. She asked him a series of questions that he had difficulty answering with his Japanese skills. I was a little moved by the way he tried so hard to answer. I smiled as I watched. I want to emulate his efforts.
I forgot to bring cat food when I left Iwai, so I bought some kidney care cat food in Ueda, but it was a different brand than usual, so Miyao didn't eat much. So I bought the same kidney care cat food as usual on Amazon and had it delivered to Lawson Ueda Ninomaru store. Since we were always out, we picked it up there.
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May 1st. the Alps Azumino National Government Park. My wife and I visited for the Alps Azumino National Government Park with my cat.
This was our first time going to there. The tulip fields were in full bloom with tulips, an overwhelming scale. The leaflet said there were 290,000 bulbs of 127 varieties. During our stay there, I was busy taking photos and my wife was busy taking care of my cat. This holiday also we visited many places, including tourist spots in Ueda and more, it was especially good.
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