Minn sun-bae-nim,
"Dae-dan Hap-ni-da"!

I see your Delusion(daydream?) coming true.
It's Great and A Great Story.

Happy New Year, Minn sun-bae-nim.

PS; Can I donate a few Bamboo trees for your Korean Garden?
Someday, I see your Garden becomes a Tourist Spot at Napa.
And I want to be a tiny, tiny part of it.

Dr. Minn, the incorrigible, the life-long dreamer,
Be careful not to hurt yourself by remembering
your body is not what used to be.
Keep on dreaming but consult often with your children
and other experts, I suggest.

가장 값진 consutant가 지척에 있으니 민선생의 오랜숙원도
꿈만은 아닌듯 싶소이다.

언젠가 꿈을 이루어 예찬의 그림에 나오는것 같은 초당에서
소주나 한잔 같이 할수 있을까?    규정

1.
Dr. Lee
it is true that I developed a elbow tendinitis as I was lifting too often those
concrete blocks. I have to be careful.
I realize I am doing exactly the kind of stuff my granddad was doing in old days, 
building mud walls, repairing irrigation dictiches fow rice field,..

2.
Dr. Hwang,

Who are the consultants other than those who are visiting this web site?

I called several Korean architects in SF area to check if they know about traditional oriental buildings. Not at all!
I have a high school classmate who is a prof of architecture in Seoul. I realize they study
one semester of Korean architecture in school.

How much did we learn about acupunture or herb medicine?

My daughter?
My neighbor is a landscaper who runs his tracter for me.He helps me lots. What helps me most is what I learned in a building school 30 years ago, two full weeks course.

 Evenually I need  my own tractor rather than an ox  for heavy work like many of our neighbor in the town. One cannot manage 6 acres with a lawn mower.

3. Dr. Bang

Where is your future garden sketch drawing?
A top secret?
If you don't talk,  I will consult with Wikileak in London 

4. On water outlet arch:

Following picture will tell the story behind retaining wall and waterway arch.

In old days, they used brick and stones. This is the most beautiful arch of Korean taste in Munkyung
Korea, where Japanese invasion army passed thoguth in 16 C..

I got a 1/2 tone of colorado flat rocks which  will be be put on the both sides of this bridge rail.

옛날엔 벽돌을 썯는데 현대에 코크리트 않쓴다면 좀 이상하다 생각.
하여간 문경의 제일 관문 아치가 소인에겐 꼭 미스 유니버스같이 보이는게 큰 문제.
임진왜란때 일본 군이 이곹을 통해 조선 반도를 전부 먹엇다고 합디다.

이렇게 적당히 불규칙적인 돌과 벽돌로 구성하는 기술은
제 생각에는 일본 사람이나 로마 사람은 죽엇다 깨낳아도 못 만드다고 생각.

다리 난간에 부칠려고 자연석 1/2 톤은 콜로라도에서 왓다고 해서
사다놧는데 두고 봅시다.

아치는 정확한 싸이즈 돌이 아니면 미끄러져 무계지탱이 불가능.
화강암으로 이렇게 만든다는것은 한국같이 화강암이 풍부한곳에서나 할수있다고 생각.

The composition of concrete is 3/4 is gravel and sand  1/4 is CaO (cement)
a reconstituted limestone plus gravel/sand,  a man's great invention, stone remade.

A stone remade, and I do not feel shame in using concrete when needed.

Our ancestors use baked lime stone, same as cement as seen below to glue those
 bricks and stone which I repeated too.
 

 

 

 

I am more and more interested in your project.
Please, keep posting here, will you, sun-bae-nim?

방형:

I have an access to internet only w/e for a time being.
Sorry for the late reponse.

I am reading a book, an excellent book I would recommend

 "우리옛 건축과 서양건축의 만남" 임석재,  대원사

그림이 풍부하고 제가 일생 생각하고있든 얘기를 이분이 100% 다 써놧군요.
한가지 제가 사족을 부친다면 인간의 미적인 본능은 다 비슷하고 어렷을때부터
일정한 문화권에 살면서 미의식이 서서히 완성돼,
 그사람의 문화적 배경이 만들어논 모든것에 배어 나오다는 평범한 사실.