色々と行事が立て込んで、何にも出来なかった週末。土曜日は、午前中に木工教室行って、その足でプロ向けのホームセンターに寄って、バスタブの給湯金具を物色。接続金具と合わせて買って帰る。夜はセルフビルド仲間の忘年会に猟師仲間の忘年会が絡んで、ヒロシさんとこで宴会。餃子のタネを仕込んで、ビール持って乗り込む。

熊の肉だぜい。

猪肉だぜい。やっぱ、猟師さんの宴会は出て来るもんがちゃいますなぁ。しかも、メチャクチャ新鮮。死ぬ程喰ったった。今日は、セルフビルドやってて、狩猟もすると言うかなり希有なグループだから、非常にディープなお話が聞けて、とにかく全てに興味津々。

最近の括り罠の実演。簡単、確実な埋めないタイプが今や主流。トラッパーの危険も大幅に減少します。早く移住して、狩猟採取の生活に移行したいもんだね。

土曜日に仕入れたバスタブ給湯の循環アダプターを取り付ける。一人で作業出来るように、逆ネジで留めるフックが付属、50mm径の給湯穴から引き出して、

反対側のブラケットを正ネジで固定して、外す。

ガッチリ固定する為の専用締め具をドライバーの軸で回して固定。

アダプターのヘッドを取り付け、固定ピンを押し込み、

キャップを取り付けて完了。最初、パーツリストとにらめっこして、無い無いと探し回ったら、結局、マニュアルの何処にも書いて無い。そりゃそうだ、給湯の方法は千差万別。自分で勝手に付けえよ、と言うことらしく、気づくのにエラい時間喰った。100%素人のセルフビルドあるあるネタ。

近所の琉球藍染作家のご夫婦が工房解放やってると案内があったので、寄ってみたけど、生憎お昼で閉まってた。

バスタブのパーツ取り付けしてたら、途端に天気が良くなって、チャンス!と外作業に出る。給排水管配管予定ラインの真上にあり、道路に大きく迫り出している30年生の桜を伐採。お隣さんの敷地内に倒れ込むので、断りを入れて、ハンドウィンチで引きながら、予定通りのラインで伐倒。

1ヶ月分の薪も採れた。桜を薪にするなんて、結構贅沢。本当は今日割りたかったけど、来週に持ち越し。

薪を降ろしていると、自転車屋さんの亜希さんから、掘ったばかりの根菜を頂いた。いつもすみませんねぇ。井戸で洗って、土を落として、持ち帰る。今日はカブの煮物やな。あ〜あ、ほんまに何にも出けへんかった。来週頑張ろう。
Very low efficient weekend. Dropped by cafe bar as last weekend. One drink was enough for good long sleep. Saturday morning was for furniture building school as usual. After the school, went shopping for water supply adapter of bath tub. Returned to bat cave then went spa before visiting Hiroshi san's house for a party gathering hunters and selfbuilders. Hunters supplied bear and warthog meat as well as dear meat. A lot tastier than over fed and rapidly grown meat. Off course it's very fresh as the hunting season just started. Bear meat was so tender and juicy. Warthog meat was cooked with a lot of vegetables in a miso based soup.
The most interesting topic of the night was a new trap. Before this new idea released, trappers had to bury major part of their traps under the ground. Which means leaving their human smell around the site. However, this new traps just put on the ground and disguised by a handful of leaves. And once games hooked, the loop of the traps wire catches a little higher than their hooves. Thus the trap won't be released unless games giving up their paws. 'One step on a trap it's all over' type of deathly trap. Safe and secure for trappers. I wish I could join them tomorrow.
Sunday morning late, getting up from hangover. Started fixing water supply adapter for bath tub. The assembly kit includes special tools. One hook like stick helped me holding outer parts from inside of the tub. Turning to opposite direction to tighten so that it won't fall down when other parts turned to normal direction. Once inner bracket caught the outer parts, hook like tool to be removed. Then use another special tool for tightening inner bracket out for avoiding water leaks.
While I was working on fixing the adapter outside turned to be fine. I was out with my chainsaw on my hand leaving everything inside the house. Long been needed to cut down a cherry tree poked out to the road in front and sits on blocking pipelining water supply. Asking for permission from my neighbor across the street fallen tree would invade his property. Pulled the cherry tree by hand winch set on a big trunk sit across at the direction of fall line. Fortunately, major weight was exactly on the direction of fall line. So without hesitation, cut the tree in one fluent motion.
A bit damage on a high branches of trees around however cleanly fell on the expected line. Cut into pieces and got a month worth of firewood. The neighbor across the street contented with saw chips for his bacon smoking.