A quiet day with less walking :)

Gnome/dwarf on Anna's balcony

NOTE--I added pictures to my previous blogs if you want to go back and see them :)

ANNA IS BACK TO WORK
Jess and I hugged Anna good bye in the morning and enjoyed a restful day mostly in her apartment.  We played two games of Scrabble (Jess won both :(  and I did a little cleaning for Anna.  We walked to the close-by grocery store (7 minute walk) and found the post office.  While at the grocery store, we were amazed at the sale items--strawberries for only 100Y (a bit over $1.00) for a pint, and fish for 80Y (about $1.00).  When we got to the clerk and she was ringing them up, we realized that the sales sticker was the amount off--not the price!  Lesson learned!  Anna told us later that the other grocery store has the real price on the sales sticker--oh well!  We bought three different kinds of fish, veggies, strawberries for 300Y/pint, and cheese curls. On the way home, we saw kids sledding in the beautiful sunshine.  Kids go back to school tomorrow from their winter break.

I made supper for Anna in her little kitchen.  I used the little grill under the burners to make the fish.  At first, I forgot to add water to the tray in it and take off the cover between the burners.  Oops!  Okay, I remembered before anything burned.  We had rice in her rice cooker and I grilled some of the fish and the eggplant.  I fried the other fish--it still had all its bones :)--just like making bullheads when I was a kid in South Dakota--except that I cooked it just a bit too long.  Everything was still yummy :)

Trees roped and propped to keep from breaking under the weight of the snow.