[Old Folk House Diary] From the Bottom of the Dim Well

Hello, I'm Randy.

Can someone please teach me how to properly remove the cap after using up a bottle of mentsuyu?
This thing always breaks halfway through on me.

Anyway, time for another article about the old folk house.

We have a well in our courtyard.

It hasn't dried up, and it works just fine.

It's not the old-fashioned pump style; water comes out when you turn the faucet. How convenient—so high-tech.

The pump style would be more charming, like something out of "My Neighbor Totoro", but having experienced the industrial revolution of the faucet, I'm not about to go out of my way to pump well water by hand.

I'm grateful to the previous owner for mechanizing it, I suppose.

This is what it looks like inside. There is definitely groundwater there.

However, since the sea is nearby, this well water seems to have a bit of salt mixed in, so it's not suitable for drinking.
When we were viewing the property, the real estate agent also told us, "You can use it for watering the garden (but there's no other use for it!)".

If our garden were to have a cursed video moment and turn into a Ring-like scenario, what would emerge from this well would be a briny Sadako. Or perhaps seafood.


🎵 It's coming—it's definitely coming—it's definitely coming—something like a spiny lobster— (wishful thinking) 🎵
If anything comes out, I'll report it on Note.

It can be used for daily needs without any issues, so it's versatile enough for watering garden trees or washing hands.

Being able to secure water for daily use during a disaster is a huge benefit. If the pump ever breaks, we'll just tie a string to a bucket and pull it up (back to basics).

A retro-style pump might look more picturesque for an old folk house, but this one is more practical.

Actually, in a few decades, this type of faucet will probably be called a "retro faucet" too.

I wonder what they'll call this old folk house by then.

A tomb... no, that's not it. Like a pit dwelling, a wooden dwelling? That's just a wooden house. An old folk house... it's an old folk house! (back to basics part 2). Having reached the obvious conclusion that

an old folk house will always be an old folk house, that's all for today's article.

See you later.
Take care.

I've compiled the story of how I, Randy, ended up living in an old folk house while sharing it with Isono Sadako into a magazine.
Please take a look if you're interested.

↓ Another backstory (behind-the-scenes)