Good bye year of 2019

The time has gone  by quickly. Now, today is the last day of 2019. I can't believe it, but it is the reality.

I bought rice cakes at the Japanese food market. They are for the New Year dishe.
 
I love a zoni. Zoni is a New Year's dish with rice cakes and vegetables in a soy sauce based soup.
But this is the custom of Hokkaido where I grew up. Other part of Japan might use miso based soup. 

Rain, rain, rain

It was raining all night long last night.

Now, 7am, The rain is still falling.

It's going to be a depressing start this morning.

But I try to be happy. 

I do a laughing act in front of the mirror.

It comes with feelings.

Happy acting makes my heart happy.

And I start the day with a happy feeling.

What happen to,,,

During a morning walk, sometimes I take some mails with me because there is a blue mailbox on the street where I walk.

This morning, I took two letters with me. But when I get there the mailbox wasn't there. What happen? I wonder. Then I saw a mark on the street corner where mailbox used to be.

Hey, someone stole the mailbox.

I came home on a midnight drive. It was an easy drive with extremely few cars. 
 Although it was a cold morning, I went to a nearby park to take a walk and tai-chi as usual.

Breakfast Sunday

It was a cold Sunday morning.  This is the morning my friend and I have breakfast in Japan town. We always arrive to the restaurant about 30 minutes before it open and take a walk in the neighborhood. 

We spend the hour and a half and left the restaurant.

Sound like a Christmas

Last night、a friend and I went to an Astro burger for a supper. I had a cheeseburger and french fries he had a Greek salad. The Christmas song was playing in the restaurant.

I worked on the demonstration piece a little more and finished it. 
It looks good.

Salmon

It was a nice day this morning, but it's getting dark and cold in the afternoon. I went to shop at the market this morning. The last time I was here in this market, a person worked in the fish department told me that they are going to have a bargain sale of the salmon fillets on Friday. That's the reason I came to the fish department of this market. I eat fish almost every day. Especially I like a salmon. It was a really reasonable price of the salmon. I bought 5 packs of salmon fillets. As soon as I came home, I put all  the salmon in the freezer. I will enjoy salmon dinner for a while.