Trying To Change

 Yesterday, Mikey and David loaded up David's car with a load of trash from the storage area. David asked if I wanted to go to the trash place, a massive incinerator, in the morning. I said yes as I wanted to go and check the price of a few things at the home centre on the way home.

This morning, however, I was really tired, no real reason. I told David that I wasn't going to go and went back to bed after making breakfast and obento. As I was lying there, all I could think of was the quote attributed to Albert Einstein."Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" I realised that I keep saying that I'm going to do more in the house, do more in the garden, spend time studying and exercising, but I keep on sleeping too much in the day and not doing all the things that I want to do. I proved to myself that I can get up and keep on going all day when I was away the other week. Why can't I do the same thing here! Mainly because I don't want to, I don't want to face all the problems here, the lack of space, the need to constantly clean, the lack of money to make changes that are needed in the house and garden!

This morning I decided to do something different, so I got up, got dressed and went with David. I'm glad I did, as we had a nice morning!

The city incinerator is a massive complex. Your car is weighed as you enter and leave, the weight difference is how much you have to pay. Today's trash cost 1,200 yen, about £6, to dump. Very reasonable.

The place that you drive into has these massive doors that open after you back up to them. Then you throw your trash into the pit; there are staff who help, so the process is very quick. We had a load of plastic to throw away, as well as some glass containers and old pottery. The glass and pottery went to another area to be disposed of. I saw piles of different things that were sorted to be disposed of, old heaters, computers, TVs and other electronics were in a different area.

The doors to the furnace.

What happens if the parking brake fails?

Mattresses are being stripped down.

 

The sign on the container says pet bottles, but I read it as pet bodies, I'm glad I was wrong! That made David laugh!

We stopped at a couple of stores on the way home. We have to change the mesh on the screen doors, so I wanted to see how much that would cost. Not too expensive, so we will try to do that soon.

On the way home, we decided to take a detour to see a large cherry tree. I've driven past the sign for this tree many times, but have never taken time to stop and have a look.

I'm glad we stopped as the tree and the surrounding area are very beautiful. I thought the blossoms would have finished because the weather has been very wet and windy, but the tree was at full bloom. Most cherry trees are in public places, like parks or riverside walks, so the surroundings look very tame. This tree is on the side of a mountain that is covered in forest. The area around the tree has walkways, but looking up the mountain, it's just trees and underbrush, kind of wild. I think there are hiking trails, but not for the faint-hearted or the old!

This tree is 120 years old!

The view from the mountain.

I took a little video. There was a class from one of the kindergartens walking around!

After that, we came home, and I made lunch. I'm tired now, but I'm also happy that I decided to try something different today!