Day 16

Keep working for the floor. Almost done. Lumber for the wall will not be deliver us until tomorrow morning. We quit today, and finish the floor before the lumber arrive when it is still cool. Josh's brother came back for a month vacation from Korea. It was his first time to see the finished plan. He is so pale compare to us brown red...

ほぼ終わりだけど今日も床張りの続き。木材は明日の朝店が開いてからしか配達してもらえないので、今日はやめにして、明日の朝木材がくるまでの涼しい時間に続きをすることにした。韓国からジョッシュの弟が帰ってきて、初めてきちんとしたプランを見せる。私と比べるとなんと白い。白人というのもあるけど。

The dog decided to hung out here all day. He was trying to make a good relation ship with our neighbor. Mr and Mrs Cows came to say hi to us. I am not too kind to invite them inside, but instead I took a nice family photo for them.

やはり犬は一日中ここで遊ぶことを決めたようで朝から遊びにきた。引っ越しの挨拶をしにきた牛男さん牛子さんの家族とご近所井戸端会議をしていた。さすがにまだ彼らを招待できないのでかわりに少しずつ誰かのおなかに消えてしまう前に集合写真を撮ってあげた。

Day 1５

Today we started from fixing stair box.... Then start putting more floors. After a while we got a rhythm. I think I like this work. Didn't feel so tired like always. Maybe we can finish this tomorrow!

今日は階段の部分の間違い直しから始まりました。それから床板、床板、床板。なかなかうまく三人で仕事をまわすリズムがつかめてきました。この作業好きかも〜。いつものより疲れを感じません。明日いっぱいで床板張り終えるかも。
Now I can do this. This must be a view for a mutant who can go through walls, floor, and ceiling.
今なら壁抜け、床抜けができる人たちの視点を味わえる。

After the flood

After the flood yesterday, water is still there. At least the dirt settled, and the water looks cleaner. The water in the outside pit looked cleaner until this visiter came. This was second time he visited us. We don't know where he lives, who is his family. But seems like he decided to think here as his play ground. He jumped into the pit, running around with refreshing splash sound. Running up to our mountain. Come down to hug with wet body. Tried to come up to our floor. We have a feeling he will visit us and jump into a pool everyday from now on.

昨日の水浸しの後、やっぱり水位が下がってない。ま、泥が沈殿して、水が透き通ってるからまだましか。溝の水もこの人が来るまではきれいだった。どこの誰男君か知らぬがここが気に入ったよう。どぶ溝に飛び込んでぐるぐる走り回ってさわやかな水音を聞かせてくれたと思ったら泥山に上ってはびしょびしょの体でハグしてくる。よい遊び場を発見したからには明日から毎日きそう。。。

Day 14 : First half

What a shitty day.... Last night we had a huge thunder storm. When we get there in the morning, we were surprised from water in the pit. Then we realized our basement turned into pool! And then we found out we had a mudslide on east side. And then we started our day from digging up our ladder.... It was so hard to save our ladders. We tried, but it is not even straight anymore.... The clay was pretty sticky. It might be a good clay for ceramics. After I set up studio, I am going to test the clay, and make something.

なんて日や！昨日の夜中に大嵐。朝いってみると溝に水がたまっているのを発見。地下室がプールになっているのを発覚。東側の土砂崩れにがっくし。ベトベドの粘土と戦いはしごを救い出したもののまがってるし。。。でもこの粘土は使えるかも。作業場が整ったらこの粘土で何か作ってみよっと。
We have drain, but haven't hooked up anything. Our basement is the lowest..... It looked cool from out side. But it was wet, uncomfortable, and inconvenient to work with. Hmmm cranky.

排水溝があるもののどこにもつながってない。絵にはなるものの水浸しで気持ち悪いし、作業をするにもなんと不便な。い〜。

Day 14 : Second half

After the frustrated morning, it went well from afternoon. We put up rim board, and made a hole for the stair way, also started to put a floor sheet! We did pretty good. When we were putting the rim board, to make it easier to work we started to put the floor board up. Then things looked different. We got a different view. We got different hight. And we can walk around on our basement. Tomorrow we will still have a pool in our basement, but still have a floor to walk.

ストレスのたまった朝と比べると午後は思いのほか作業がはかどった。フロアジョイスの外枠リムボード、階段用の穴、床も少し打ち付けました。リムボードの作業をするために床板をのせてみると、視界が一変、高さも違うし、地下室の上を歩ける！明日持ちかにはプールがあるけど最低歩くところはあります。

Day 13

Today it was foggy day. Josh was struggling with his eye glasses that get cloud every time he need to focus. I thought it's funny, but I guess it is dangerous. We put squash board to the place that need to hold heavy main walls. This squash board is tiny bit higher than I joists. So when we put up walls and roof, it would have more surface to hold the weight. We needed lots of smaller wood block for this. We had a big family reunion in the afternoon. So today also we only could work half a day... Hope tomorrow the weather would get nicer and we could work all day.

今日は霧の濃い日になった。くぎを打とうと集中するたびにジョッシュの眼鏡が曇る。面白いと笑っていたけど、本人はシリアス。今日は午後にある家族の集いのため、半日しか作業できないが、できるだけたくさんのスクワッシュボードをつける。これは一番重みのかかる壁を支えるところに打ち付けるIジョイスよりもほんのちょい出っ張るくらいの高さの棒。これで少し重みが分散されるはず。明日こそ丸一日作業できますように。

Day 12

We kind of woke up in the morning. It was a thunder storm. Of course we went back to sleep immediately, and got to get sleep in. In the afternoon the sky started to clear out. We could work there half a day. We put up the side board to the floor joists. We needed to work from out side. But since we still have a deep pit all around, it was a day to fight with ladder. After the rain, ground was very soft. We needed to set our ladder on gravel, otherwise it would sink. After a while we started to have a nice team work.

朝早く目覚めたものの外は大雨、久々の二度寝を満喫しました。午後から晴れ間がでたので半日ですが作業開始。今日はIジョイスにサイドボードを打ち付けた。まだ地下室のために掘り出した土を戻せないため、大きな溝の中ではしごとの戦い。雨の後で土は柔かすぎはしごが沈んでしまうため砂利の上にはしごをたてる。いい足場を確保するのが至難の業。それでも最後にはそれぞれの役割分担がはっきりして、なかなかのチームワークで作業できた。