As noted recently, we put in a fresh garden plot in the front yard area of our house in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan. As part of the project is moving a buncha boulders to make room for planting a smattering of fruit trees.
The boulders are moved by a steel tripod, chains and a pulley system and as such, assuming one is careful and strategic, *fairly* non-heavy work aside from pushing the cart with the boulder to the location to dump it off.
Time-lapse of a rock moving session:
The relocated rocks are used to build up a retaining wall of sorts to support a drainage ditch… When offloading from the cart to the ditch, we added leftover bales – really bales – of bubblewrap from the shipping of my archives to protect a hard plastic pipe in the ditch. Quite fun rolling the rocks into position!
Then using a few more to put a ring around a big plum tree to make a picnic park area.
We’ve done a few sessions now of hauling the rocks and while the pile is reducing, still can’t see the ground sufficiently to put in the trees, so we carry on / there are enough rocks that we’ll sorta extend a little wall. Continue reading Diary: More Rocks, also Herbs + Bocce Dreams (with time lapse fun) →
Consider Perusing:
- Drug Court – Observations on Restorative and Rehabilitative Justice
- Japan: Travel primer / places to go, getting around, accomms, culture, etiquette and geography
- Healing Ramble: Pros & cons of living or seeking treatment abroad with a chronic illness
- “Fck Stats, Make Art” Talk Transcription (Northern Voice 2008)
- “Are You Worthy / Greeks to Geeks” talk transcription (Wordcamp Whistler, 2009)
- Sharing Social Marketing Stories for Communities – Community Roundtable, 2010 – Transcription
- Diary: Okayama Regular Life, spring-ish / ramen, friends, singing, coffees, shrine, farm, graves etc.
- “Akiya” abandoned, cheap/free* houses in Japan / annotations, resources, riffs, musings, stories
Tsuchida Yard and Garden: Kei-truck with shelf project
