Trim, Trim and don’t cut the cord!

was the plan! but in my over excitement I cut the power cord to the trimers and shorted some of the house out (Oops!)

Anyway the front entrance is now looking nice and clean and ready to welcome in the new year.

Found a news paper and basket from 1932!

Shinyoso also includes a traditional Japanese shed known as a Naya 納屋

Our master carpenter has kindly fixed the rails to the doors, so finally we can put the shed into good use.

The *Kura is a traditional Japanese warehouse and is possibly the strongest building at Shunyoso. It’s definitely the place with the most  junk to remove and dust to clear.

Hopefully it will be cleaned out in the next couple of days.

• Kura in kanji characters can be written as 倉・庫・蔵

If you were to look up kura in a Japanese dictionary a rough translation would be  “Kura – A place where household goods or merchandise is stored to keep safe from fire,natural disaster or theft.” So this sounds like a perfectly good place to make our bar.

Daylight sensors and LED bulbs added to garden and wall lights.

Winter on its way is welcomed by some hard cleaning.

It was a good day to do more cleaning. Can you see the hallway board has no segments? It is 4 ken, the old Japanese unit for length, or about 7.3 meters. The foundation sits on the flat rocks so that earthquakes do less damage.

The hallway closer to the doorway. Also the long board used here.