October

 It's October.  It's autumn but the weather is still like summer!  Todays high is 32C (about 89F).  I'm not happy about this at all. The nights are cool so I don't need to use the air conditioner but the days are still hard to deal with.  I left a lot of jobs undone in the summer because I know I get sick in the heat.  My plan was to get as much done in October, not just the house but the yard and fields that we have.  But there is no way that I can really work in this heat.  Did get a couple of big jobs done but not as much as I would like!  Still keep on keeping on, it will all be done one day!

The kids have settled into their new schedules and jobs.  Of course David has a funny story!  Part of his job is  cleaning the toilets.  The ladies is just for one person, so he knocks on the door, if no answer he goes in to clean.  The other night he knocked on the door, no answer, opened the door and saw somebody standing there, he apologizes and goes on to do something else.  There is a lot to do, because of the pandemic everything has to be wiped down after each customer!  Half an hour later he goes back to the ladies and the same thing happened.  This went on all night.  At about 7am he tries again, things are a bit brighter in the morning, he knocks on the door, no answer, opens it and realizes that there is a mirror opposite the door, it was his reflection he had been seeing!

We are getting ready for Halloween.  Went to the local 100yen shop and bought a few more ornaments for the room we teach in, need to get them up today! Of course the cats got in on the action.

Getting ready for Halloween with Alan!

This year I'm not baking cookies, part of it is the on going pandemic, part is just not having the energy to do over 200 cookies.  I'll bake for us but I need to do so many!

Fluffy has taken to sitting on the window at the top of the stairs, but it is very narrow so David moved a small book shelf so she can sit on that and stick her nose out of the window.  The book shelf became a cat shelf!

Cat shelf.