DIY: 2 trees, 2 flowers, 4 bins
Continuing to “improve the campsite”, ergo: Two small peach trees, both gifts from Okayama city – the first for getting […]
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Improving Campsite
Kitchen: Iced Coffee & Pies (for bamboo crew)
3pm ice coffee & cakes for bamboo cutting crew from “DaveO Kissaten” Note metal straws & honey on the cubes
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Improving Campsite
DIY: Birdhouse (vacancy, no application needed)
Made a birdhouse from some scraps of wood, noting birds don’t care about “perfection“ (and fun to make while they’re
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Improving Campsite
Signpost: new planks for Atemi Kougen, Misasa onsen, Dubai, Olympia x2…
New signs on the pole… {I had to deviate *somewhat* from my usual obsessiveness about the compass directions due to
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Signpost: each comes with a story / Noto + Providence & Pokhara
Each place on Tsuchida Station Sign Post has a story behind it for me or for my Ryoko, or for
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DIY: small repairs, global satchel + hemp curtain
I fixed my leather satchel which I bought in Nepal, broke in Greece, stapled in Thailand, and now sewed back
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“The Present is…” notes and projects around Kura (post box, poems, flower pots)
The present is an unfinished poem ________. Let’s Enjoy! Note: my kura is the official Cascadia Consulate for the Setouchi
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Tsuchida Station: Sign Post project (fun with cartography)
Blurb: Now that the major parts of our renovation(s) are done and we settled in, turning our attention to “improving
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Improving the Campsite (odds and ends diary)
A little bit lost – &/or found – of late, but the dishes are finished, laundry started and the rabbits
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Improving Campsite, Personal Musings
Diary: Really nothing *big* however, life carries on
Feb 10 Great magazine arrived, National Geographic, June 1984 with cover story about trains in India + history of Japan
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Improving Campsite, Notes to Future Self
Yard Projects: Tsuchida Weather Station, broadcasting + QR codes
Set up real time weather reporting from Tsuchida “Station” Okayama, Japan with a white-label outdoor station. Check in for hi,
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Improving Campsite, Personal Musings
Tsuchida Station ~ grounds project (weather station)
Now your jovial correspondent Takushi Fujita can transmit detailed weather information directly from Tsuchida Station including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure,
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Abode: Tsuchida Cottage (*old* street view)
Regarding Tsuchida cottage / house: as mentioned in previous “Japan cottage musings” videos (Tsuchida Yard & Garden & Generational Home),
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Diary: 3 wooden stick projects (sign post, postbox, wind phone)
Mounted three pieces of raw wood into Tsuchida tsuchi (soil) with concrete (or is it cement? – which do you
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Diary: Moving Boulders, Laying Bricks, Planting Seeds at Tsuchida Cottage
Quick notes: relocated these three big old foundation boulders using a tripod and pulley to make a little ring around
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