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Where is Fritter?
On Thursday night, Fritter slept on the bed and as usual, he stepped outside in the pre-dawn. But it’s Tuesday now and he hasn’t come back. Fritter is our adventurer. He has gone off for extended walkabouts and missed a day’s worth of meals, but he’s never been gone five days in a row. I…
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Tile Mines, phase 3
Trick? Treat? I’m not sure yet. My Halloween was spent moving all of the tiles I sorted last year from Hangar eight up to 555. There are seven pallets, a dozen trays, at least 8 bags, and a wheelbarrow. They occupy the spot where the old outhouse used to stand. It is literally tons of…
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Nama-con #1
Yesterday was the first pour of concrete. This is just a few centimeters deep to form a base for the rebar and the 2nd pour of the pad. Those will be done at the end of next week. From now until Friday, the concrete sets and there’s not much else to see. This first pour…
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Shades of boxwood
As I go through the process myself, I get flashes of memories from when my parents built their house in the Valley of Lakes. Yesterday, I recalled the boxwood. Their lot was wooded with a variety of deciduous trees. One of them was a boxwood. It wasn’t a small shrub, this was a 10′ tree…
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Overcoming fears
This weekend there is a basketweaving workshop in Kimitsu. Naomi sent me a link this morning for a “make a colander basket with goldenrod” event. There’s a Zoom version and an in-person version for five hours on Saturday. 555 has a wealth of raw materials that have rekindled my interest in fiber arts, herbalism, and…
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Foundational
Yesterday morning, work began on the foundations. It started with a lot of neon pink string, checking and rechecking measurements at ground level, then building a fence, moving the strings to waist level and rechecking to make sure everything was square and tidy. By midday, trenching had begun. Maru-chan dug the ground down to the…
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Treating Myself a Little
This was a weekend of small indulgences. On Saturday morning, I joined a yoga class for the first time in years. Heguri Hub has been running outdoor yoga with live music sessions since the spring, but this was the first one I managed to catch. It was a treat to participate rather than lead, and…
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Sunset wine
I am sort of disappointed in my life at the moment. I haven’t fulfilled my potential; I keep delaying my ideas until I can realise them fully. But at 56, time is running short for grand plans and I feel a slight sense of urgency to act on my dreams. Maybe I can do something…
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All by myself
I went up to 555 this morning expecting to see the Monaca Doken crew on this sunny day but nobody was there. As it turned out, they got a call for another job with some urgency and went off in the big blue dump truck to take care of it. This did not deter me…
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It’s cat blanket weather
We are in that best-of-year period where days are temperate and nights are chilly. The low temperature this morning was a single digit (8) for the first time this season. It won’t last forever, so I will savor all of these lovely days. Last night, I grabbed an extra blanket for the bed. In the…
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