I don't like early mornings...

but this one started at 5:30 as I drove to Aira to pick up a fridge and
washer to use for the summer. Four and a half hours later I was back and
ready to start my normal Monday. Oh, wait a minute, I don't have a
normal Monday...

I stopped by to help Mr. Miyazono, and while there he gave me a bottle
of dirty brown liquid to spray around our house. What is that?! I asked.
He said it is soemthing he makes to keep the bugs, like poisionous
cetipedes, out of the house. He makes it as a byproduct of making
charcoal. He makes charcoal and sells it in the summer. He has a big
kiln? that he puts the wood into and seals up with mud. The exhaust pipe
has a weird apparatus attached that runs down in to a barrel. He gets
about 200 liters per kiln full of wood. Cool, huh..

posted by Norman @ 4:16 PM