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Golden Week - big wastewater drainage cleaning!

Saturday May 7th was big wastewater drainage day in Futtsu. The city supplied hemp bags for the mud. It was an experience I did not want to have missed. There was about 10 cm of mud on the bottom of the drainage.  Our friendly neighbor kindly introduced me to the efficient technique.  In the end 6 hemp bags were full.  What else happened during this pleasant Golden Week holiday with great weather and also a bit of wind :) We did some work in the house and added some wooden boards to the wash basin and kitchen cabinets.  We used the same panels as was used by our 大工さん which turned out to be the cheapest and most easy one to process. We did the cutting at the Cainz home center (one cut 50 JPY with member card).  Finally spring is there and the frogs are croaking day and night and the grasshoppers are hopping. With other words it was again highly meditative.  PS: I did my first kite session after the accident.... it had to be to loose the fear.... but don't te...
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Shouji Weekend (cultural differences and first pizza)

 Out of all the materials that are available, who would seriously consider to chose paper in order to make a door. Well apparently Japanese do so and very persistently for quite some time. I did not pay much attention to this fact until I replaced the paper on our Shouji doors. And it is not just one or two, we have 16 Shouji sliding doors in the tiny house.  In more or less two half days we finished 6 of them and in the same process also ripped two. Not really efficient! However once one get's used to the subtile material and careful handling the processing time goes down. 


Well as so often it comes down to the tools. The key process is the cutting of the paper, which requires a very sharp carpet knife and some kind of ruler for support. We also figured that the result is better if the paper is cut while the glue is not dried yet. 


We used the oven for the first time and it was a success. Pizza became perfect and the menu is surprisingly easy to use. The oven even has a function for fermenting, which helps a lot with the dough. 


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