my neighbour moved out today

My neighbour upstairs was moving out this morning.

so the house moving truck came in early in the morning running up and down the stairs loading stuff. and before i knew it, they were done! in 2 hours! i thought, wow! that was the quick?!

with 2 children in the house, don't they have more things?

then came the doorbell late morning just when i was leaving the house to go the mart.

checked my intercom screen, and it was the lady from upstairs. hmm... (secretly thinking, maybe she is giving away her baby pram. maybe she knew i soooooooo wanted that baby air buggy. she knew didn't she. she knew!). ok, back to reality - she came to say goodbye.

BUT she was moving to the apartment 500metres away, so "we will meet again. and when H is ready to go out to play, please come over!" she says

no wonder that took only 2hours. they had probably brought over a lot of stuff on their own i guess.

well, we had a box of candies from her. the usual japanese gestures when you move into a new place, and when you move out too.

It was a hot day today and my appetite for normal food is diminishing. i could just do with asandwich or biscuits.

but no no, not a good idea.

i made dinner proper again

Besides a light vegetable soup,

grilled eggplant wedges with red miso meat sauce

this was so right.

i had wanted to make mapo eggplant, but the saucey dish would be hard to finish on a hot evening.

this meat sauce was good; helped us finish a whole lot of eggplants.

pumpkin salad

i can't say enough how much i love pumpkins!

right up to the skins. i finish the skins in one meal and use the sweet flesh separately for another meal in another dish.

i can't wait for the farmers mart to harvest the noodle pumpkins too!