My initial title for this entry was "Time Flies..." but I decided against that. I just finished giving a sparrow a burial. It was lying dead at the end of hallway that runs past the doors of all the apartments on my floor. It either succumbed to a fatal injury incurred from flying into a window, the passageway is lined with windows, or the heat wave we've been experiencing the past few weeks. The property my apartment stands on doesn't have a square centimeter of open soil. So I discreetly dug a hole in the patch of weeds behind the neighbouring newspaper distribution office, placed the bird corpse in the hole, and covered it up.
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Today I went about replacing the torn shoji paper of the sliding partitions of my Japanese style room. I chose the type of shoji paper which you can secure by heating it with an iron. After completing two sliding partitions I've realized that 1) the stuff doesn't necessarily stick very well on the wooden frames, and 2) it's not an easy task getting it to lie completely flat. Getting it taut like the paper I'm replacing appears to be beyond my abilities. Given that, I will head back to the hardware store to purchase some shoji paste. I'll use it to secure the loose edges where the heat treatment was enough to get the paper to stick to the frame. All in all, the paper I've laid down looks pretty bad but, on the plus side, it doesn't have any holes or torn panels...yet.
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