Ayako went to Sapporo to see Shimizu, our brother-in-law.

  Today Ayako went to Sapporo. How many times has she been to Sapporo to see Shimizus to care of them ?  Ayako came home at about 3:00. She said Shimzu's condition had not changed, and Shimizu could speak, though very slowly.
  I walked in the morning toward the Tomakomai river. The weather was sunny, but the temperature was low. Cold weather has been continued for about a month, and the news reported floating ice had reached the Okhotsk coast of Hokkaido almost one month earlier than usual years.
  In the evening, I attended the monthly meeting of the neiborhood association. After the meeting, sake and beer was served, and we enjoyed drinking and talking.