Ayako went to Sapporo to see her sister Emiko, who is in the senior care home.

   After a couple of cold, windy days, it was a fine early-winter day. Ayako went to Sapporo by car alone to see her sister Emiko in the care home, and her husband alone confined to a wheelchair living in a condominium. Ayako returned home at about 2:00 and said her sister and sister's husband were not changed. I walked, as usual, as far as Kawazoe cho, and on the way back, I dropped in at a convenience store to buy two rice balls for my lunch. The trees along the path, mostly swamp ash trees, had no leaves on the twigs, and Mt.Tarumae looked white with the snow on its top. There are only four days in November left.