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This is a story about an
international couple raising and home educating three
young boys on a small island in Japan, half living in
buses, engaged in organic, self-sufficient farming in
the middle of a mountain forest while dealing with
climate, cultural, and personal challenges. These pages
are about pretty much anything and everything all guided
by our family motto, Taking Chances, Making Changes,
Being Happy. Thank you very much for joining us on our
ongoing crazy adventure.
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December 8-11, 2021 - This was overnight trip
number 12 with this trip lasting for four days and three nights. The first day
was spent cutting the last poison oak trees from around the
campsite....somewhere between six and eight trees. The bow saw was used to cut
this as opposed to the chain saw to avoid getting the oil from the trees on the
chain and in the saw. The trees were then burned with this project lasting into
the second day, and after lunch on the same day, oak and cypress trees in the
parking area were removed. A bunch of pictures were taken but did not store on
the phone. The third day a bunch of cypress trees were removed from the campsite
along with the two huge oak trees. This opened up the canopy and let in alot of
sunlight. The next day a few trees along the road were removed including a few
pretty huge oak trees. After this trip was a bit miserable with poison oak on
arms and balls. This was the third time dealing with poison oak rash. We plan to
keep most of the trees on the mountain but the oak trees simply needed to be cut
in order to open up the canopy and let sunlight into the campsite. These two oak
trees had trunk diameters of about 50 centimeters. The cypress (hinoki and sugi)
trees cut will be used as practice for debarking and notching in preparation for
a future log cabin.
Picture - Mountain - Us about to return home
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Picture - Mountain - Us about to return home
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December 15, 2021 - This was a day trip since
Akiko had to renew her drivers license. The trip was spent mostly processing the
already finished cypress trees which were cut over the last few months. These
will be used as firewood and possibly for animal enclosures someday.
Picture - Mountain - Us about to return home
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December 21-22, 2021 - This was overnight trip
number 13 and was only for two days and one night. The entire trip was spent
getting the previously cut oak trees off the road and cutting the canopies and
stacking the wood neatly off to the side and along the road. It rained a little
on the second day but dried out in the afternoon.
Picture - Mountain - Us about to return home
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Picture - Mountain - Us about to return home
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