Perfect rainbow @ Appi Kogen

It's time to paint the balcony of the log house!

An off-routine activity to fill the Golden Week break besides golf :)

According to the house-keeper expert, re-painting the wood once a year will help retain the color of the wood and protect it from rotting-away.

So, Isamu and I decided to give it a try, a new experience for us! :)

We departed for Appi on April 29.

We were so excited to get on the Tohoku Shinkansen, which finally resumed its full dial more than a month after the Great East Earthquake (Mar11).

To our surprise, the Shinkansen was fully-booked. Most passengers got off at Sendai of Miyagi prefecture, one of the hardest-Tsunami-hit areas.

Appi Kogen, though located in Iwate prefecture, is high on the mountain, so unlike the devastating coastal area, it was fortunately unaffected by the Tsunami.

The log house was intact, nothing was out of place.

The balcony-painting was quite fun! （●＾o＾●）We re-painted it 3 times in 3 days in a row to give it a better coating, so that the woods will be well preserved until next year.

During one of our painting session, we were lucky to catch a glimpse of a lovely rainbow. I've never seen such a perfect beautiful arch. Couldn't help to take a movie shot of it ♪

A week passed by in a flash! We missed the barbeque in Appi so much that we decided to do barbeque in our tiny balcony in Tokyo :)

At least no claim nor complaint from the neighbors so far .. so I guess the yummy smell did not offend anyone at all :)