Friday, August 06, 2010

Alas, no photos!

It is HOT around here today....I think it was above 95*...I KNOW where we were it said 38C....so that is hot for Northern Japan. LOL 


We were happy to be on the way to explore Tanesashi Beach. What a gorgeous coastline....grassy meadows, cliffs, rocks, trees, sandy beaches...HOT SAND....who knew you could burn your feet on sand?  


The waves were quite a bit bigger and the water deeper than at Veedol Beach....so we had to really watch Stacia. The waves were knocking Jared and I off our feet....but it was a great day. We'll be going back often I'm sure....45 min from our home. 

Choosing Joy!
©2010 D.R.G.
~Coram Deo~
Living all of life before the face of God...

Watshitachino karui koya (our light shed)

What a blessing to have a young man in residence who could take my thoughts and make them a reality.

Last weekend Arielle organized the youngers to help her clean out the playroom...during the winter/spring many things had "landed" there that didn't have a HOME there. ::snort::

This reminded me that it's bothered me to have all the bikes in the "play room" since we arrived. We went on a hunt. We finally found what we wanted at Sanwado.  It's a shed. Not a fancy or sturdy shed...but I see a lot of these around town and figure they must work. The small wooden ones are nearly $1,000.00.  This is a rental and we will move in 2 years. I bought light.

Jared agreed to put it together. I dreamed there would be room for garden tools, winter yard stuff and five bikes. We debated where to put it. Did we want to lose yard on the side or the back....and what about my view of the farmer's fields....but we knew we'd put the shed up.

Jared seemed surprised the instructions were all in Japanese. Once he adjusted he discovered the joy of being able to put it together however you want without nagging directions and warnings. ::snort:: 


We settled on this spot. Our farmer sold his horses. The white fence is the corner of our subdivision. Our landlord is supposed to take care of our yard - but weed eating and trimming is evidently not a part of the deal....and I've not found one to buy yet. We settled on this spot.  Jared began the magic of turning poles, ties and tarps into a shed. 


It's taking shape....Jared isn't so sure that this will hold what I want it to hold.  About this time one of the farmers came over. Through pantomime, broken English and even more broken Japanese it became apparent that he was suggesting Jared move the shed to the spot between our fence and his. He came over and took the weed eater and trimmed our entire yard for us. Not the neighbor's side...but hey...I figure this is still payback for the time the kids and Mike helped to dig his wife out of the snow when the snowplow deposited mounds of snow at the head of their road. Evidently, if you do something nice once - you're a friend for life....wonder if the same is true if you make a mistake. Hmmm.


Here it is.....and everything fit! I did leave Michael and Jared's bikes in the garage/playroom. I'm wondering if I dare try to install those big bike hooks in the ceiling? What do you think Michael? 


I'm so pleased at all the work the kids did to make the playroom "workable" again.... I like to just go look at our tarp shed or...."karuikoya".

Tidbit - learned last night that when writing Japanese words....they don't put spaces between the words...run em all together...only use commas and periods.

Choosing Joy!
©2010 D.R.G.
~Coram Deo~
Living all of life before the face of God...