Maintaining a snowblower for winter in Hakuba

I am not a mechanic person at all, so just doing some filing and re-painting job the other day for winter. I ask a factory to repair any mechanical stuff.

When we paint something, it should be warmer than 5C to do the work good. Otherwise you can not paint good enough. I painted a little bit thick.
These wings part were originally painted in black, but as I sprayed red inside of the auger last year, wings also got painted a bit red. I am planning to paint them black again but I am really not good at doing any sensitive works so who knows how it will go lol....

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Oil price

Oil price has been more and more day by day recently. Finally kerocine cost may be 100 yen per litre soon. Just checked the price back in spring 2004 - it was 43 yen per litre, grrrrr already more than double!!!
Our heating system is simple, a boiler works to make hot water to circulate it entire house. There are heaters in each and every room, they have radiators and fans inside. The hot water runs around to heat the radiators then the fans work to push the hot air forward to make the rooms warm. No ventilating needed as no fire is there.


This does not smell at all, very comfortable, I like it.

But!

It costs a lot, I know why - because the boiler works 24 hours a day to keep the hot water circulating entire house to an exact temperture.
I might see some nightmare if oil price goes higher :(

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Scheduled snowfalls?

Weather forcast said it would be snowy today and it is.

It seems that the maximum temperture for today was +2C, the minimum was -1C. I think the minimum temperture usually goes a lot lower at this time of the year so soon before snow starts falling, we feel a bit strong headache but don't feel that way yet this year.

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Minami Oomachi station

A tiny station called "Minami Oomachi" located just 1 next of Shinano Oomachi. I know some people say train stations have to be a lot bigger, not like this. But in Japan train stations are often like this especially in countryside.

This is Matsumoto direction.


Shinano Oomachi direction.


Some broad steps. Actually there is a factory of a company at the opposite side of a main route just infront of the station. I guess probably a lot of people commuted there by train before.


400 yen for Kamishiro where we are located.


You have to reach a station enough earlier than the train arrives there in Nagano prefecture because not so many services available here. Otherwise you have to wait for next train for a long time!!

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Painting walls and ceiling

When I cleaned the passage way by a vacuum cleaner back in this previous October, I felt it a bit necessary to paint walls along the passage way and ceiling so I just did it.


They say it's rare to find walls and ceilings painted in white if it's an accommodation because if it's white there, easier to find when it gets dirty or dusty. I did a lot of painting job this year - roof, ceiling and walls. So that's all for this year. Some people here say it's not good if one did everything at a time because no happines comes in. So I will do the rest later....

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Daikon

Harvested some daikon in our tiny farm.

Hum.... looks funny in shape lol.... I guess perhaps they grow avoiding some stones if they meet any on the way to grow more under ground. Probably those kinds shapes are not acceptable in markets to sell but anyway they are what we grow, so at least it's safe to eat them because we don't use any dangerous medicine.

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My blower

To blow fallen conifer leaves pinched inbetween stones in my garden.

The problem is some small stones are also blowed lol....
I just would like to blow leaves only though :(
Weather forcast says it will be snowy the day after tomorrow, so I need to blow the leaves before that.

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