in the way of progress
As you may know, while the Elliots are in North America for a wedding, Masa and I are building a wall to mark a boundary of the church’s property. This has been going pretty well.
Each stage of construction involved digging a trench to put concrete rubble into to create a solid base to build off, then making a form out of plywood to pour the concrete into, then finally pouring in the concrete. Once it sets we can remove the form to leave a nice bit of concrete wall behind.
The first 3 stages should be the most difficult as the wall needs to be stepped up a steep slope. The last stage will be difficult as well as we are going to make a 180cm high part at the corner so the wall is marked when the snow comes. However stages 4, 5 and 6 should be pretty easy as the wall is long and low. This means just digging a trench that doesn’t need to be too deep, throwing in some rubble and making a small form to make the wall in.
But on beginning stage 4 this afternoon we encountered a problem. The neighbours house, built very close to the boundary, has some plastic pipes that are used to circulate air through the septic-tank of the house (not the same as the septic tank at home, really just a storage tank that gets emptied every so often) and are protruding onto the churches property…
So we have to skip doing that bit and move on to the next bit….
In other news the first snow of this year in Ajigasawa that actually laid on the ground has happened today!
In other other news, I thin I have deleted my whole Ajigasawa bot of my photo gallery in uploading the new photos of the wall! Which means that next time I have some free time I’m going to have to put as many as I can up again… Bah…
November 20th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
hehe… Ormo the handy-man. Nice! Didn’t know you could build walls. Class! hehe… p.s. the ancient text of Slaydom has once again been scratched upon. Should bring a smile…
November 24th, 2005 at 3:43 am
Hey John boy,
Good to see you up to your neck in cold wet mud. Bet it feels like being at home playing a new years day footy match against the old boys!! lol. Just remember when the time comes…..don’t lick the icy lamp posts! Good work with the wall btw
December 28th, 2005 at 3:01 am
Alright now lad.
Merry Christmas to ya. Hope you got a big dinner. Just in from hill walking with club today, was classs… North coast looked amazing with hardly a cloud and the sun shining and the waves rolling in.
Miss your crack lad with the kayaking. We were out on the west strand on christmas eve and the waves were so so big and again the weather was class. Had one swim and lets just was the water ain’t warm.
Web site’s looking good and glad to see your gettin on well. Got to go and slay a few boys on astro. Happy new year lad… Laters…