I love making fires (maybe this is something to do with my Ayurvedic dosha?) the whole process: gathering the wood, making the fire starter, cleaning the ash, setting the wood, and one flick of the lighter and one flick only.
Busy around the house, now the construction is “done”, doing some garden, yard, landscape, and kura/naya jobs… the glorious mundanity of the tiny things which make all the difference. Be prepared, nothing *shocking* or exciting, just the usual days.
Hemp cloth wrapped on shelves made from wedding dais / under the dust cover is 1982ish Yamaha GT-2000 turntable & analog amp plus TEAC cassette/CD/usb/1/4” deck. Thats not *all the records* but a solid batch.
Another string of lights *and* Palau static montage… legit handcrafted speargun etc etc
Wood splitter, borrowed from forester Ukan and parents split up this rack / its loud & ornery but does the job
All hardwood – mostly oak and maple, odd bits of others (arborist wife often bringing home big chunks) This was all F&M-in-law. Epic. I’ll fire it up though (i just encourage)
Breaking rocks in the hot sun… (Ryoko has made a time-lapse of this rather intensive, long project…)
Continue reading Diary: Tsuchida station grounds projects, various
Mounted three pieces of raw wood into Tsuchida tsuchi (soil) with concrete (or is it cement? – which do you mix with sand and water to make the other?) for 3 different, but vaguely-related, projects:
* sign post with arrows pointing distances to favourite/special places (there is a list but… need to re-earn my orienteering compass badge so I can point the signs in the right direction. Resisting the urge to be really obsessive about this but worried more engineering-minded friends will come double check my work and you know, if it’s not within 2° of accuracy you know I’m going to hear about it – I can hear the “well actually…” in my head already. And then any US people who come will be confused by the KMs as well – sigh!)
* post box for (un)secret messages the kura barn >> atelier, lounge & Cascadia consulate
* phone to the wind as a shrine & refuge for conversations with those passed or possibly lost {further evidence}
PS Transplanted two trees today. Super fun being arborist Ryoko’s assistant and father-in-law’s “co-worker”. Yeah, used a shovel and a wheelbarrow and *everything*.
Yes, it seems I’m really “nesting” and getting ready to live here forever.
Metaphor: look for simple elegant ways to make/do tasks/things which can become unnecessarily complicated
