When
is it going to stop raining?! It’s been a long, wet couple of weeks in Japan
with frequent weather warnings and some unfortunate folks in the southern
prefectures being evacuated. Osaka has not been as badly hit as some but the
bad weather has delayed the frame going up by about a week. We’re pretty used
to delays by now but it is still frustrating to pull back the curtains in the
morning and see that, once again, rain stops play.
There
has actually been some progress on site although the weather has meant that we
haven’t been over there for about 10 days. We’re both itching to go and take a
look for ourselves but, for now at least, we have to make do with some photos
from the builders. As you will see below, the scaffolding is now pretty much up
and we are ready to get started! The outline of the wood deck has also been put
in place.
We
have also had our first glimpse of the view we will have from the upstairs
floor balcony. I’ve scoured the pictures to try and get an idea of the height
from which the picture was taken and it looks to be at about the balcony level,
although I may be wrong. Nevertheless, it’s a pretty cool view, despite the bad
weather.
In
other news, we decided to forego the expensive (and to us, pretty meaningless) ceremony
to bless the land and the frame and all that stuff. I hope the Japanese gods
decide to take pity on us in light of our overall patience and unbridled
positivity towards the project. I’m sure there will be plenty of opportunities
for us to throw some rice and sake around at a later date. We will however be
meeting our carpenters in a couple of weeks which should be a nice experience. So
far, we’ve spent a lot of time with the architects and people coordinating the
design but not much with the people actually building the house. They probably
think we’re a bit crazy so it will be nice for them to see that for themselves.
Thanks
again to the new followers. We’ve actually just passed 10,000 views which is
pretty insane for a random couple building a house in a sleepy suburb in Japan.
More updates to follow in due course.
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| The view to the west. Excuse the lousy weather! |
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| Our house from the scaffolding. You can see the outline of the wood deck on the LHS |
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| From the road |
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| From the road 2 |
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| Next door's garden is looking nice. Inspiring! |
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