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Gonna try and put up various pics around my place, hope you enjoy.
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12/20/2007, 8:29 am
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I really like your back garden. 
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12/22/2007, 3:54 am
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Hi Crayon, thanks.
That's the side yard actually, here's some of the back. Good luck on the move.
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12/22/2007, 7:42 pm
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Johnny LaRue wrote:
Hi Crayon, thanks.
That's the side yard actually, here's some of the back. Good luck on the move.
Mornin' JL,
I envey your wooded back yard there. Looks great! You do yakiniku back there?
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12/23/2007, 11:19 am
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Hi Ken,
Yakiniku? Oh yeah, got a bbq area and firepit for cookouts. In nice weather put up tents and campout with the kids. The woods are great until Halloween when the kamemushi swarm out of the trees and blanket the house.
Here's the firepit area. The yard used to be a fishfarm, hence the walls.
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12/24/2007, 10:16 am
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Now thats what I call having a forest in your back yard, fantastic place JL. You mention kamemushi, I know mushi = insect, so I'm guessing maybe these are cicadas? I've heard they can mass swarm and its quite an experience. This leads me to a question. My wife says that the mosquitoes are pretty fierce in Japan, much more so than here anyway. How do you all deal with the unwelcome wildlife? Do you find it a problem, specially spending a lot of time in the field/outdoors.
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12/25/2007, 10:30 pm
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Hi datagecko,
Kamemushi are stinkbugs, about the size of your thumbnail. They are the most annoying pest in my area. The only way to deal with them for me is to fight back, sealing cracks, cooking up natural pesticides. And buying guinea fowl this spring. When we don't have any late typhoons they are plentiful. For about 2 weeks they are everywhere outside, they're slow and stupid and just a flick gets em off you. But 500 meters down the road in a less wooded location there are few. Alas it's the price I pay for those lovely trees.
Mosquitos seem no worse than back home. Yamabiru-mountain leeches require frequent ankle checks in July-August. The abu-deer/horseflys aren't bad at all, not like Hokkaido,yikes. Yes, the pests can be testing at times and you have to change your habits a little. No major animal problems though, the occasional monkey, frequent deer, never seen a viper.
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12/26/2007, 9:45 pm
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Johnny La Rue - that looks absolutely fantastic - its the sort of place I'd like to live in! Your own private yakiniku/beer garden to boot, as well as rural idyllic-ness.
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Thanks again crayon,
here's our village, average enough.
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12/31/2007, 9:35 am
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Ahhh, stinkbugs. Unpleasant but could be much worse. Yes, living in the city you start to forget that we do in fact share this wonderful world with a few less friendly pests. I had a block of land in the coast hinterland north of here for a couple of years, but did not know when I bought it that it was an area thick with snakes. A few visits from 8 foot long brown snakes (very cranky buggers) refocuses your attention on that. Now I want to know who I'm likely to be sharing a future home with before I commit to a region. ;-) There are always *some* troublesome natives, so its good to be prepared for that.
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