Kaoru and I woke up at 5:45 this morning to check out whether Kaoru had to go into work. The wind was blowing strong, and the rain was really coming down. Severe weather alerts abounded at 6:00, so she fell back to sleep on the sofa with a smile on her face while I took a shower before checking back to ensure that the keiho were still in effect at 6:30 thus closing my school. They were, so Kaoru and I both went back to bed.
About an hour later, I remembered I needed to bake bread (bread machine, though I can make it the old fashioned way if I'm in an American kitchen rather than a Japanese one, so I went back down, got the loaf started, and went back up.
A couple of hours later we got up for real and made breakfast: Kaoru bake biscuits and made coffee, I fried up some bacon and made a cheese omelette. By this time, the typhoon had pretty much moved on, and the sun broke through around 1:00. Of course, the yard, driveway, cars, basically everything was covered with leaves and twigs, and a couple of dead pine trees just behind our property snapped in half, but no real damage was done.
I called my folks because my British cousin and his wife were visiting them. I always see Derek and Pauline when I go to England with my students, so it was good to talk to them. After, we drove into town to take care of some banking stuff and do some shopping. It was good to put the top down as we drove, listening to Magical Mystery Tour at a volume that caused Kaoru to cringe.
No school today, and nothing so special to write home (or a blog) about, but it was a good day, relaxed. Now the wine is uncorked (a 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon from the Clare Valley in Oz) and in the glass.
A pleasant time was had by all.
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