Item: Tama ‘Cocktail Jam‘ drum kit
New addition to the kura barn studio: Tama cocktail jam kit / set-up for playing standing up! (also designed for […]
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Tidying up: kura, recycling and firestarters (and a few notes from around the house)
Speaking of organizing, made it out to barn, studio the other day, couldn’t find project wanted to work on (a
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Stitch, Stitch: mending some demin jeans, sashiko-esque
Stitch, stitch, stitch (mending some Uniqlo jeans Dane loan/gave me when I showed up from India in rags for my
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Ryoko’s Artisan Charcoal (her company is: kinome-okayama.jp)
Preamble: Do you remember me telling you about Ryoko’s charcoal kiln? Anyhow, she built it herself, recently fired for the
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Typhoon Nanmadol annotations
Really apropos of nothing, just a few unedited notes i sent out via social channels during recent typhoon here in
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Improving Campsite
Art: Michal, Ichiro, Noriko paintings on display at Tsuchida Cottage
Ichiro art hanging between 2 masters / Michal Korman (L) & Noriko Miyake (R) at Tsuchida Cottage. Captured before moving
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Plan: Kura, 1st floor “concept” (family hang-out arts and crafts music clubhouse)
While the second floor of my kura barn is well documented as a mixed media arts and craft studio, this
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Kura barn / storehouse turned studio, consulate and lounge (round-up/catch-all)
Summer 2021: Glorious Kura barn 125+ yrs old got a century retrofit with heat-pump/cooler, electric upgrade with breaker box &
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Collections of Artifacts, Improving Campsite
Items: 4 paintings (by BC artists) at Tsuchida Cottage
Tidying up the artifacts, as such, here is a subset of paintings at Tsuchida Cottage and/or Giggling Piglet Studio and
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Diary: Luxury life with scattershot actions amidst (in)consequential events
So, to no one in particular, “please don’t mind if the posts seem a little scattershot, maybe not finely-tuned, polished
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Kitchen: anaerobic ferments, various (mostly in peanut butter jars)
While I’m here: wife came home from a work project (planting some saplings) with a couple cardboard boxes from a
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Diary: apropos of nothing (sleeping masks, hockey, mosquito net, laundry)
Really nothing to the usual days except for the brilliance of usual days, appros of really nothing, i annotate for
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Ryoko’s Charcoal Kiln, annotations
Charcoal Kiln drum – improving the campsite Ryoko has a notion to make charcoal using a 200 litre (50 g) drum
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Improving Campsite, Personal Musings
Diary: “i much prefer the mundane” – campsite tasks and musings
Continuing to document the mundane / usual days >> like another “waiting for a bus (when i shoulda adjusted my
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DIY: Hemp curtain , part 2 (with tatami cloth)
Going to try to make the hemp curtain for the back door this afternoon. What do you think for the
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DIY: (Vacant) Birdhouse improvements / welcome sign & thatch
Nobody’s moved into the birdhouse yet so I followed some ideas/advice and made a bigger hole, added a welcome sign,
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