Kate’s Quests

Ahh Japan. The land of construction. You thought where ever you lived was bad? Things are being either built or repaired ALL the time. Since there are TONS and TONS of people crammed into every available space, the Japanese are constantly improving things to fit more in. My neighborhood, for one, is well built up but there are a couple of open spots of land and they are all being built on at once. And they are all conveniently right across the street from me. If you ever feel like listening to four jackhammers, fifteen regular hammers, nine cement trucks, countless people and nail guns going off ALL AT THE SAME TIME….please come over to my house.

When we moved in the house across the street was just getting started. As you can see it’s almost done. I should specify that I live on the corner so I have two across the streets. I think they started on this place four days after we moved in. At least they started the foundation then. They had already broken ground and gotten the space ready to go. Since we’ve been in four months, I’m going to assume that in six to eight months (provided the house two doors down gets started soon) they will be done.

A few weeks ago and two houses down from the one that’s almost done they completely tore down a place. Yesterday a couple of people came out and blessed the land so I can only assume building will start very soon. I didn’t get a picture of them blessing the land because I thought it might be a little tasteless…although I could have done it unnoticed. But, the camera was also downstairs and I was lazy.

Then comes the big pain in my butt. The house directly across the street…and across from my driveway is being built on. So today they had the street blocked off completely because there are five thousand trucks all blocking the street (and my driveway). So getting out was interesting and getting back in was even more fun. They had to move three different trucks to allow me into the driveway. This picture is taken from my hallway window and faces the same way my driveway does. It’s missing the giant red truck that was there earlier, but they had to move that too.

So once I finally am allowed out of the driveway and get two feet past that…the next piece of land is just starting to be built on too. Facing out of my driveway, this picture is just to the left of the last one.

And as you can kinda see…there is still one more plot of land in between those two. So..once it gets purchased then we’ll get to go through this all over again. I always look forward to Sundays because they don’t work on Sunday and it’s the only day it’s actually quiet!