ブログを 引っ越しました

ブログを別のサイトに引っ越しました。

新しいブログはこちらです：http://solar-sharing-japan.blogspot.jp/

これからの投稿は全て新しいアドレス↑↑↑になりますのでよろしくお願いします。

これまでの記事も全て、新しいアドレスに載っています。

ココログから引っ越した理由は主に2つです：

１．ブログの管理は私にはやりづらく、投稿が面倒でした（例えば記事のレイアウトで段落間の空白が反映されないこと；写真の管理など）。

２．ココログは日本国内向けのサービスで、日本語以外での発信や海外からのアクセスを全く想定していません。そのため、例えばアクセス情報では日本国内のアクセスしか分らないなど、不便なことが生じます。

上記の点が改善されれば、戻ってこようかなと思っています。今まではお世話になりました。

Blog moved elsewhere

I moved this blog to another site. 

New blog is here:  http://solar-sharing-japan.blogspot.jp/

Everything from now on will be posted on this ↑↑↑ new address.

You can also find all the old articles on the new address as well.

There are two reasons for leaving Cocolog:

1. I found managing blog on Cocolog inconvenient and posting new articles time consuming (basic layout problems like spacing between paragraphs not automatically reflected in final article; cumbersome photo management etc).

2. Cocolog is inherently designed to be used within Japan. It does not assume posting in any other language than Japanese. It does not assume the blog could be viewed in countries other than Japan. This results in several inconveniences, such as access statistics only showing views within Japan, not from around the world. It's not world-wide but Japan-wide. Which is quite narrow.

I hope Cocolog will once decide to fix these issues. Until then, see you on another platform!

Chickens flying

It's been a month since our chickens arrived. In the life of a chicken, one month is a long time. It takes humans several years to grow from cute babies into cheeky school-age children. Chickens can do it in a single month.

They are now less cute or fluffy , but they are  stronger and more independent than before. They have impressive wings and can fly!

This is how our chickens looked when they arrived a month ago (end of April):

And these are the same chickens one month later (end of May):

On the picture above, chickens are sitting on a perch that we just finished yesterday (May 31). Perch was an instant success, chickens love it.

Now we're working on a fence outside the coop so that chickens can play on the grass. As they grow bigger, the coop will soon be too small. Picture below shows the inside of the coop (this picture was taken just before finishing the perch yesterday).

That was a quick update.