Visits to the vet + Tsuyo's Birthday

  
30 December 2016

In the morning
Although my skin condition was much better this morning, I had to go to hospital again.

My dad and mum want to protect me and prevent the appearance of any diseases – last visit this year surely!

“He asked us to take you again. Never mind, Pinot! Besides, it’s close to where we live. We trust in the practitioner,” mum said to me with a smile.

“Wow, lots of cars in front of the hospital. Oh dear, it must be very crowded inside, I can imagine,” I murmured to myself.
Chaos, everywhere at this time of year, even in animal hospitals. We had to wait, wait and wait, surrounded by lots of dogs. You can guess how I felt. 

In the afternoon
My mum’s nephew, Tsuyo, came over to stay with us.
Ideally, it was getting cold towards the evening as we were planning to have roast sweet potatoes in our wood burning stove.

In the evening
My dad started putting sweet potatoes wrapped in foil into the stove. Everybody including Chizuru-chan was so excited about it, but other guests were late for the roast sweet potatoes. 
‘Can you smell something burning?” said Tsuyo. 
“Oh dear, over roasted,” dad opened the stove door with a bitter smile. 
It didn’t matter to me. I was enjoying myself sitting near the fire.

Suddenly, the light deemed out.
“Happy birthday to you, 
 Happy birthday to you, 
 Happy birthday, dear Tsuyo, 
 Happy birthday to you.”

It was Tsuyo’s birthday.
He was surprised by the beautiful string sounds and birthday cake with brightly lit candles that came down from upstairs, the way mum plotted.

This afternoon, mum secretly baked the birthday cake (chocolate) for him.
When he arrived our home, mum had already baked that. Aha!

“Hmm, delicious!” he said with a big grin on his face.