里山田舎暮らし猫日記 7 / Diary of county cats 7

めっぽう寒くなった上林では

先日うちの両親が猫娘用の湯たんぽをくれましたので、早速おいてみる。

初めは湯たんぽの袋の紐とあそぶだけでしたが、この頃やっと上にのって気持ちよさそう。


It has been really chilly recent in Kambayashi Ayabe

A few days ago my parents gave me YUTAMPO for my cats.

*Yutampo is Japanese hot-water bottle which we put hot
 water in the bottle and sleep with it, then it makes you  warm.

At first, they were curious about the strings attached bag of YUTAMPO.

but after a few trial, they seems to be comfortable.

ゲストハウス開業への道⑤ / Road to opening Guesthouse in Ayabe 5

畑編 ⑤ / Vegetable field 5

先週畝を作り、柵をはった畑に、隣村の水梨の知り合いからいただいた玉ねぎの苗と、キャベツの苗を植えました。

ただ今日見ると畑が乾いて栄養がなさそう。肥料がいるのかも？？

I have planted onion and cabbage at last.
Those vegetable are given by acquaintance who lives in
next village.

and today I took a look at my field and compared with
neighbor's field, the color is different.
I guess it doesn't have enough nutrition.

ゲストハウス開業への道④ / Road to opening Guesthouse in Ayabe 4

畑編 ④ / Vegetable field 4

今朝は朝から雨、あられが降る中、晴れ間をみて、畑作業。
畝４本を完成させる。

そして石の道もだいぶすすんで母屋まであと少し。

夕方には杭を打ち込み、ワイヤーメッシュを設置完了。

It was rainy, sunny and hail today.
I kept cultivating when the rain stops.
Then finally I made 4 ridges.

and The stone path is quite long that it  will almost reach the house.

In the evening, I put piles and tight piles and fences with string.

My veg filed were complted.


←石の小道 / Stone path














　　
　　　　　　　獣害除けフェンス設置完了
               The fence was set
                           　↓

ゲストハウス開業への道③ / Road to opening Guesthouse in Ayabe 3

開墾進む

５㎡の畑を耕し、石を除去。そして除去した石を２軒の家をつなぐ道の
建設用にこつこつ並べる。
『拾っては並べ、拾っては並べ』の繰り返し。

そしてやっと獣害除けのワイヤーメッシュ、木の杭、かけや（木槌）を購入。

畝を作ったあと、柵設置します。そしていよいよ作付します。





←石を並べて道を
　　作る。
  　Making a path by       putting rocks.


Progress of cultivation

I have made 5m-square field for the vegetable.
wherever I hoe the ground, the rocks came out.
So I decided to put those rock on the ground between my two houses and make a path between them.

and also I finally bought hummer and fences to provide animal to come.

Next to thing I wanna do is making ridges.


獣害除けフェンス設置のための道具
These items are for putting fence around field.
　　　　←　↓

新しいアイテム / Cool items

最近かったアイテム


丸ノコとインパクトドライバー。
この２つがあれば、何でもできる気がする。

すでに２つとも家の改修に大活躍。
詳しくはフェイスブックページをみてください。

『里山ゲストハウスクチュール』でフェイスブックページを検索してください。

I bought new items

Recently I got 2 useful items.
One is circular saw, which I can cut anything,
and the another is Impact driver, which I can nail it into
anything

These are already helpful for rebuilding house, which
I am doing now.

please search our Guest house facebook page.
You can search by "Guest house Couture"

ゲストハウス開業への道② / Road to opening Guesthouse in Ayabe 2

体験用とゲスト食用の畑(No 1)耕作中

ゲストハウス予定地の横にある畑を耕作開始！

何年も使われていないのであれて、雑草やススキも伸びているのをまずはご近所さんにかりた大きなつるはしで荒くおこしながら、根を掘り起こす。

Cultivate the field which the guests can use.

There are lots of abandoned field around our guest house. Locals are willing to let me use it.

so at first, we started cultivating one of field for vegetable which guests can cultivate and also harvest and use for their meal.

but the way is little hard, because it has been disuse for a long time, there are lots of weed and Japanese pampas grass.

The other days, neighbor rent me big pickax.
That makes it easy to dig Japanese pampas grass from roots.

←やっと少し興せた。
　I finally finished one line.

クワ、又グワ、つるはし
Two kinds of Japanese hoes, pickax →

一日の終わりにはとりあえず２５㎡分完成。
At the end of days, I finished cultivating 25-square-meter field.