Mei-Shun felt a slight tremble this evening after dancing with Mr. Magical Thunder. It was really by chance that she opened a box of canned pastry in the morning, stored for natural disasters. Alarm sound was more scary than the quake itself, since it reminds her of the one occurred 12 years before. Thanks to quiet ground and nice numbers on a scale anyway, she was able to try above sweets after dinner.
Shin kindly brought Mei-Shun, who 90% recovered from a sore throat after almost a whole month, to a German restaurant on weekend. They always serve this couple; fine plates to the husband, season-best beer to the wife sharing superb dishes with him of course. Hmm, simmered pork with dried apricot is really delicious. And a rare bottle here, brewed in our country makes amazing combination with it.
Thanks a million not to darling you, but to Ms. Last One today. Almost 2 years might have passed since Mei-Shun danced with her in previous occasion. And it took nearly a whole year for this rider to remember how to canter. Now she would revise the list of classes reserved; which lesson, who is the best to improve her technique? She is pleased to think about it on a cup of 新茶.
We have 八十八夜 today, meaning 88 days have passed since 立春=risshun, the 1st of 二十四節気. It is also the best timing to harvest 1st green tea leaves. Mei-Shun therefore means to drop in a shop before picking Shin up at the nearest station. The wife craves 雁金=karigane (green tea including leaf veins) and 玄米茶=genmai-cha (the same with puffed rice) using a discount ticket delivered to loyal customers.
Mei-Shun walked just 5 minutes to a hair salon this morning. According to Dr. W, dehydration is the worst for a sore throat. She prescribed effective medicine as well, allowed this one of her loyal patients to feel much better. The latter therefore ordered warm green tea while waiting for dyeing paste to calm down. Oops, please do not make her cheek brown.
Hi Miffy, great to see you sleep in Ms. Cuby, a refrigerator of Mei-Shun. She ordered you to cook 糠漬け=nuka-tsuke, pickles made in fermented rice bran. Almost 20 years have passed since her older 糠床=nuka-toko, bed for ingredient vegetables, went into poor condition to be given up. Now is the time to resume it for Shin, whose check up is set 3 month later.
Mei-Shun still has a frog in her throat. She therefore went out this windy afternoon for the best medicine: a dance in a wood with Princess Maria. Yes, here she sometimes canters a little. Feeling happy, Your Highness? She heard that annual check up for you is tomorrow. Please just relax, everything would go all right. A tiny friend among her chocolate says the same.
Mei-Shun has a cold, perhaps caught from Shin. His symptoms including a sore throat, a high fever and a blocked nose followed by a cough seem to have come harder to her. She left a letter beside the bathtub of mom-in-law last night, to stop seeing her for a while. The latter, who often takes an opposite standpoint, then kindly cooked much today for her daughter-in-law.
Oh, thanks a million, Shin. He took a business trip to Sendai bringing home nice souvenirs. Mei-Shun is not so interested in ずんだ餅=zunda-mochi, rice cake dipped in sweetened and mashed green soybeans, while quite likes this one. The biggest reason for that is its shape of the box of course — it comes from a famous game software. Slime characters make her heart warm.
Mei-Shun cheered her favorite athletes via TV in kimono on weekend. They are a sumo wrestler and a figure skater respectively, while share their brilliant accomplishments: the former won 13 bouts among 15, the latter his serial, second gold medal in World Championship. She celebrated them with 2 fingers of whisky, followed by hand-made cakes from mom-in-law.
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