亀清旅館の玄関の横に薪用の小屋を作りました。ある材料を使って、結局1500円ぐらいで作れました。これからは来冬に向かってまきを集まらなきゃ。この新しい小屋きちんと乾燥させれる。そして、玄関も整理が出来ます。
その1500円は12'の2x4，3本の為でした。よく見たら、カナダのマークがありました。懐かしかったです。私の以前の人生（旅館の跡継ぎの為に来る前まではシアトルで貿易関係で勤めておりました）、北米から日本へ木材を多分１０００TEU（貨物のコンテナー）以上も手配した。私が今度その同じ木材の消費者になるのは不思議です。
Now I can add one more item to my list of personal accomplishments: I built a wood shed. A pretty darn dandy one if you ask me. And thanks to using mostly materials on hand, it only cost a bit more than 15 bucks. Now I have to start working on filling it with firewood for next winter!
By the way, the 15 bucks went for 3 12' two-by-fours. They had the Canadian maple leaf on them. That brought back some memories. In my previous life (before moving here to take on the inn, I worked for a trading company back in Seattle), I must have moved over a thousand TEU's (ocean-going containers) of lumber from North America to Japan. And here I am now as the end user of some of that same lumber. Who woulda thunk it.
(Warning to anyone out there who is trying to use this blog to practice English, that last little phrase ain't standard Queen's English.)

戸倉上山田温泉の亀清旅館のHPはこちらClick here for the website of Kamesei Ryokan in Nagano.