Moving Date coming up

 March 5 we will move into the house in Ono-shi.  Packing and sorting all the stuff  in our current home is a b i g  job.  😓

Here are some current photos of the basically finished rooms.

  We took out the tatami mat floor in the living room area and inserted what was left of the insulation in the floor.  

  Henry put this beautiful dark plywood on the subfloor.   It could have been the main floor, but noone will see it  :-)  On top of this will be the main floor boards.  Photo coming.  

  The bathroom area with sink installed and carpets on the floor.  

  These new lights are in the bedroom downstairs.  It's an odd-shapped room with two windows and sliding glass doors opening to the street.  

  This is opposite the sliding doors where the bed will go.  The window area is at one end of the house where I will have my sewing space.  

  The toilet room door under the stairs.  To the left is the new sink.    More photos forthcoming.  

Construction Progress

This is outside the bathtub to the left.  The sink will go here on the wall facing.  

Henry was able to use the last of the wall panel board in this area.  Most of the piecing will be covered by the sink unit so it will look fine.

The new bathtub with rolled up cover on the floor.   Ready for the first customer.  

Last week this wall was put up in the bedroom area.  Taping and mudding to do from here.  

 

The Fox

 This morning I heard the pheasant making noise so I looked out my window and I saw this fox in my neighbor's field.  It was a good size and was also looking for the bird when it made its honking noise.  It is the first time seeing a fox in our area.  

Christmas and Birthday at Joe's house

The three sisters had a wonderful Christmas time opening gifts.  

Christin and Willow 

 The pink princess 

The purple princess. 

Matt came up for Willow's 2nd Birthday Party in January.  Below she is opening a big gift which turned out to be a basketball hoop.

 

Snow comes to Kobe

January 12 we had snow falling in the morning which accumulated about 1-2 inches and was about -4 C.  On our way to Ono I took some photos. 

This next two photos are actually the frozen creek below our house in Hatacho.  I don't recall it ever freezing before.  

Out the front door about 8:00 a.m. 

Snow was on top of the water on this river in Ono City, about 20 minutes from where we will live.  

These three are behind our house in Ono where our neighbor has a pit to burn debris.  It was still smoldering from Monday's burning so we added stuff to it like wood, some dried bamboo and the like.  

 

Progress on the Ono House

 The system bath installer is working on putting in the floor.  The tub is standing on the right side. 

The equipment needed.

Henry and Dan on ladders discussing the slanted ceiling in that part of the room.  They decided to make it straight across on the left side. 

 The tub is installed. 

 

Progress on the Ono house

These are January photos of the progress at the Ono house.  The first is the kitchen area with the floor covered with cardboard to protect the new flooring underneath.  

These that follow are the new system bath that was installed on 1/12, piece by piece.  Really nicer than I expected...

The entrance folds inward. 

There's room enough to stand and then get in the ofuro tub which would be filled with nice, hot water.  

 

Ono house inside and out

New stairs from the living room up to the second floor

The bath area ready for new concrete 

The old tub had to be cut out of the hole it was in.

House exterior on the left 

Around to the front door

To the right of the front door 

Going to the driveway 

Parked Fun Cargo 

The property goes back to beyond the white building on the right.  It is mostly garden out there. 

 

what to do with Trash?

 After drilling and chopping out the Ono house bathroom, we took the rocks, bricks, etc., to a local Recycle place that collects all kinds of stuff.  We had to pay about $100 for them to take the small truckload of stuff  which they will sell to someone for fill dirt.  Here are some photos. We backed the small truck to this space where employees shoveled it out.  There was also a fork-type machine that tried to push it off using tarps. That did not go too well because of the heaviness.