The amount of doors we found in the warehouse is honestly a little astounding. Some interesting finds, and some very amazing doors…. and I am pretty sure I found part of a dalek (sorry geeky sci-fi person here)
dalek
Little helpers welcome
Junk and more junk
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, LED bulbs
Daylight sensors and LED bulbs added to garden and wall lights.
December starts to show its colors
Winter on its way is welcomed by some hard cleaning.
The 20 year-old well
We tried to check if the 20 year-old well still works. Unfortunately, the volume of water is too low at the moment to water our garden. We will now seek option B.
Western Quarter Bathroom
The bathroom in the Western Quarter, we are removing a partition to make a roomier space.
4 ken, an old Japanese unit for length
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.
Let the cleaning begin
My job over the next couple of days is vacuuming tatami mats and trying to clean up the years and years of accumulated dust.
the new western quarters bathroom
Edo-san has started to work on the Western quarters. His first job, Maybe I should say mission is to remodel the bathroom. Blood, sweat and tears are required today as the old tiles are very stubborn.
Testing the water blaster
Water blasting time