Paul Coleman's Blog Posts Tagged 'kikuchi' (14)

The earth we've dug out to create the pit style greenhouse has been placed into earthbags and used to create a path to walk on and a the new pond to feed the plants. In the process we have created a new comfort zone, where we will make a bench, plant roses and have a nice picnic view zone.

This large mound of earth in the corner contains good soil that drains well and that we hope is suitable for cantaloupes and watermelons, a crop, up until now, not grown…

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We're building a new greenhouse, hoping to grow Watermelons and Canteloupes, rare things…

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There is no separation between us, our house, our garden, our land, the surrounding nature and view now we connecting…

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Today is Konomi's birthday and we're celebrating with the arrival of Pepper, a four month old Ewe.…

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A beautiful rainbow, close and perfect creates a dome of light over our land as a welcome to Patagonia symbol for our good friends Koichi and Ai Nakatani and children Ishin and Tanka. We are now living in our house and Koichi and family have moved into our La Junta…

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We're only 80 kms from the ocean and yet we hardly ever see any seafood! La Junta is a cowboy town and everyone eats beef and sheep - except us. There was a lady who sold fish from a small hut for a couple of months but she's dissapeared to more fishy climes, so it came as a small miracle that one day Konomi went to the local store and lo and behold a huge bag of King Crab Claws fresh from the nearby pacific. Just US$10 for the lot and a nice change for us and Cliff, who's…

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 Konomi with the first handful of Raspberries picked from our freshly created garden - not many yet, as we're busy and the birds are beating us to the bushes. But we are enjoying lots of basil and various greens which are growing on the polytunnel. Meanwhile I am creating terraces while covering the retaining walls for the turf we've piled around the house - these will eventually become out house food garden and should look very pretty. Konomi loves gardening and can hardly wait to… Continue

Cristiano crossing Rio Quinto on the cable car we have to take to reach our second piece of land.

Enjoying our friend Cristiano Giordani's visit to Patagonia. He's from Rome, Italy and on a world tour and staying in our cabin which now has…

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It`s our wedding anniversary today. Five years ago we got married on the beautiful island of Okinawa just after I finished walking around the island planting trees for the 230,000 people killed in 1945 in the last major battle of WW2. And now we*re in Patagonia... Life is very…

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Konomi besides Dubes Horse

We had to spend an extra day in Valle Quinto due to torrential rians that raised the surrounding rivers overnight. It was no hardship though as we had more time to enjoy Lucio's farm and hospitality.

Leaving the farm we hiked the two kilometers to the Rio Quinto along with Lucio's family and his uncle Dube Rosas and his wife who rode their…

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Photo: Lovely Little Bird at Puyuhuapi Fiord, Patagonia

Wishing all my friends and memebrs of this Network a very Happy New Year. It's pouring down, but we're all cosy inside the internet cafe and ready to see how New Year is celebrated in La Junta. We've got our New Year's wish list pinned to our wall and this year it's a long one - why not. We have a very big sketch pad and a page has been filled.



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I took these photo's as we passed through Argentinian Patagonia on our way to build our home in La Junta, Chile.

They were a lovely site set with the Andes as a back drop and Konomi was very happy to see them.

So did our friends, the owners of Cabanas Rincon dels Sur,… Continue