This is a Russian Roulette style post. I wrote the title before looking in my image folder.

Let’s see what we got…

Ah, yes. A Japanese woman throwing a bucket of water on the ground. Apparently the Japanese use this technique often in the summer, at least in the time before air conditioning, to create artificial breezes that cooled their homes during the summer.

Pretty cool.

The more I learn about traditional ways of architecture, the more I want to buy a plot of land and build a house in a traditional style, that matches the available resources and the climate, and that takes advantage of thousands of years of engineering wisdom.

A house that is real. None of this fake BS that is suburbia and drywall and blueprints that are a copy of a copy of a copy. I want land and timber support beams and a completely location-specific plan.