Visitors

Today my washing machine would be fixed. The landlady showed up a bit after 2 with the electrician who was to put on a new lid on the washer. She brought with her her adorable twins Wataru and Satoshi. Who's who? They were quietly busy immediately, running around playing and were interested in the mirror on the floor that I bought along with my fridge and rice cooker. It had been hanging in a local bathhouse and has an ad at the bottom for a local okonomiyaki joint. I know where it is to hang at home and I have at home the right screws with covers to hang it with! 

The landlady told me they are having a christmas mass(?) tomorrow, and I will go. I'll be interesting to see what happens. There are sandwiches, I was told.

After the washing machine was fixed I washed and after hanging the laundry in the clear sunlight, I went out to examine an interesting shop that has locally made jeans. Forbiddingly expensive, but just looking. I forgot my map, but refused to return home so rode up and down the small streets, straining my memory to recreate what I had just found out about the location at home using the computer and the forgotten map. It was a good exercise, I think, and I found it. They did have nice stuff, but the pants were perhaps too glamorous. There was a belt, however, I might have to get back to. It was simple thick leather, but crumpled - really cool.

Then I returned to the tabi shoe shop - to exchange the shoes I showed in the last post. I kept feeling a bit ambivalent in the following days and finally decided...that no. I will buy a pair later. Promise. Finally, I got home and here I am. But today's picture is of the twins in the mirror.