Things are well. We have been busy at work lately on the cabin making alot of decisions as to how to restore the frame that is holding up the roof. Some to rebuild, some to rethink, and restructure in North American ways rather than Japanese. Things are going quite well at this point. We have sucessfully replaced all of the exterior walls, house wrapped and now have started installing some new Hardy Board-facia, and soffit. Today we tore out the pre-existing floor and raked up the decaying leaves of the past 50 years. It is looking like the new floor will be much easier to replace than I had once expected. We will be putting in a new 2x6 floor frame with 1" plywood. It is quite something to get used to, between the mix of North American and Japenese materials we have been supplied with. We are both healthy still minus minor allegies to mildew and the like. It is extremely humid in Japan in the summer leaving anything wood (Houses) musty smelling. It has not been a major deal thus far(Thank's God). We went to the Onsen(public bath/hot spring) again this week and we think that we might have to make it a weekly thing. SOOO RELAXING. Sue and Phillip are in Tokyo with Cliff and Marg for the weekend leaving us to cook for ourselves for the time being. The jumping spider population has been decreasing steadily since Flow and I moved in a few weeks ago. It seems that we average about one aday for the last while. It took us quite a while to figure out how to squashthe jumping critters untill we made a conection between the bug zapper and the airborne creatures. AH HA what a great way, they are fast! The other creature that has caught our attention is the wild boars. They come into the mission at night and tear up the moss in search for a meal. We too have been thinking about a meal! We cornered a small one the other day untill it slipped under the fence. We are thinking that we might play some tennis this weekend there is three courts on the mission, right below our cabin and one court has now melted of enough to play. Tommorrow we plan to continue on fascia and soffit providing it is not raining like today. Tonight we just got back from a Kaiten-zushi. Kaiten-zushi are sushi restaurants, where the sushi dishes are presented to the customers on a conveyor belt. Customers can freely pick the dishes that they like as they pass in front of them or order dishes which are not available on the belt. In the end, the number of plates is counted to determine the cost. There are usually a few kinds of plates (differing in color or pattern), each being associated with a certain price of typically 100 to 500 yen. Kaiten-zushi tends to be less expensive than usual sushi-ya. Lots of raw fish and rice, a little wasabi and tea means a great meal and a fun experience. Flow and I went with Randy our site manager and Jonathan our German freund from church. That was in Saku which is the city close to here where one has to go for most resurants or building supplies. Randy is always running around for supplies, most places here are smaller scale and therfore a person has to know which store to go to for various different types of specific supplies. He has been a real blessing to us becuase he frees us up to just work while he does alot of the searching for things for us. Randy has been here about 4 years and he is done at the end of February, heading off to Korea next to work for the next while. He is about 50 with the energy of a mid 30 year old, he is an amazing guy that we love to hang around with.