I got home yesterday, afer a lapse of 16 days.
It has been a gruelling and long stay...
Normally, you would expect to find yourself
taking it easy, alas, not in my case.
There are photos. One of them is the following.
This, I belive, is a lava, or flying lava, do lavas fly?
I do not know... In any event, I and my mother went to
a local batterfly museum, and I saw many just like this one
being described as such...
The patterned cloth is the auning I managed to put
underneath the clear roof I had constructed last year.
All sorts of insects seemed to like the texture of it!
Why is it there in the first place? What follows is the
wooden deck. It is very spacious, 4m x 8m. There was an ad
enclosed in the local paper. According to it, something of this size
(without the roofing) would set you back by JPY 1,200,000.
I constructed mine all by myself and
the total cost was something like JPY 150,000!
My roof had a problem of letting the strong sunlight
onto the deck. The roofing material was corrugated and opaque
plastic sheets and they were not good enough to prevent
the strongest sunlight and that is why extra cloths had to be
employed and insects immensely liked them!
I did do some of my normal lime of work and the next
photo should support it.
and the output from it below. Not much, of course, because
I only did it when I was rained in...
This work still continues, and in fact, I did some
today, despite the heat and the resulting sweats!
While up there, we had to get rid of large amounts of
redundancies, as shown below. These are only a tiny
propotion of things we got rid of!
My workload was very heavy, and most of it was spent
on felling the branches, no photos, but there were
some light workloads, such as below.
These are the vertical bars I was to fix to the main
entrance pillars for my aging mother, so that she can
cling on to them, when she tries to bring herself up
onto the deck.
This, below?
This is a small, removable table on the horizontal bars.
I did construct a table, as shown with the second image of
today, but, very often, you need an extra space, to put
things on. With these horizontal bars they can only be kept
on one of the beams very precariously, because of
the gaps between them.
This is my attempt to improve upon such inconveniences.
More will be made next time we are up there, which will be some time
in late September.
Looking back on our stay this time I am shattered!
What did I do? Fellings, all the time, day after day!
Inevitable, after all those years of neglect!
I probably attacked some 40 to 50 trees, all by hands.
Next time, I will definitely take my chainsaw with me! I simply
forgot to take it this time!
Net result? Breeze is sweeping through across the
entire garden now, with more light coming through.
I also installed a solar powered lighting system in the garden.
I attacked and destroyed a bee hive. We went to museums of
all sorts in the area.
I also found, by sheer chance, a noodle restaurant where
you can have an excellent meal! We had lightnings and
power cuts, almost every few other days, and absolutely
torrential rainfalls associated with them, or, perhaps
the other way around?
So much so, I am not going to put up my usual useful
expressions in English at least for today. I must be
a little tired after all those gruelling fights
against the tree branches, all despite the fact that
the temperatures never exceeded 28 while we were there.
The minimum was always hovering at around 21...
I will be back properly from tommorrow on!
It has been a gruelling and long stay...
Normally, you would expect to find yourself
taking it easy, alas, not in my case.
There are photos. One of them is the following.
This, I belive, is a lava, or flying lava, do lavas fly?
I do not know... In any event, I and my mother went to
a local batterfly museum, and I saw many just like this one
being described as such...
The patterned cloth is the auning I managed to put
underneath the clear roof I had constructed last year.
All sorts of insects seemed to like the texture of it!
Why is it there in the first place? What follows is the
wooden deck. It is very spacious, 4m x 8m. There was an ad
enclosed in the local paper. According to it, something of this size
(without the roofing) would set you back by JPY 1,200,000.
I constructed mine all by myself and
the total cost was something like JPY 150,000!
My roof had a problem of letting the strong sunlight
onto the deck. The roofing material was corrugated and opaque
plastic sheets and they were not good enough to prevent
the strongest sunlight and that is why extra cloths had to be
employed and insects immensely liked them!
I did do some of my normal lime of work and the next
photo should support it.
and the output from it below. Not much, of course, because
I only did it when I was rained in...
This work still continues, and in fact, I did some
today, despite the heat and the resulting sweats!
While up there, we had to get rid of large amounts of
redundancies, as shown below. These are only a tiny
propotion of things we got rid of!
My workload was very heavy, and most of it was spent
on felling the branches, no photos, but there were
some light workloads, such as below.
These are the vertical bars I was to fix to the main
entrance pillars for my aging mother, so that she can
cling on to them, when she tries to bring herself up
onto the deck.
This, below?
This is a small, removable table on the horizontal bars.
I did construct a table, as shown with the second image of
today, but, very often, you need an extra space, to put
things on. With these horizontal bars they can only be kept
on one of the beams very precariously, because of
the gaps between them.
This is my attempt to improve upon such inconveniences.
More will be made next time we are up there, which will be some time
in late September.
Looking back on our stay this time I am shattered!
What did I do? Fellings, all the time, day after day!
Inevitable, after all those years of neglect!
I probably attacked some 40 to 50 trees, all by hands.
Next time, I will definitely take my chainsaw with me! I simply
forgot to take it this time!
Net result? Breeze is sweeping through across the
entire garden now, with more light coming through.
I also installed a solar powered lighting system in the garden.
I attacked and destroyed a bee hive. We went to museums of
all sorts in the area.
I also found, by sheer chance, a noodle restaurant where
you can have an excellent meal! We had lightnings and
power cuts, almost every few other days, and absolutely
torrential rainfalls associated with them, or, perhaps
the other way around?
So much so, I am not going to put up my usual useful
expressions in English at least for today. I must be
a little tired after all those gruelling fights
against the tree branches, all despite the fact that
the temperatures never exceeded 28 while we were there.
The minimum was always hovering at around 21...
I will be back properly from tommorrow on!