Oct
19
Water Woes
October 19, 2007 | 3 Comments
We woke up to find that we still have no running water. The last time it was on for a few hours but that was 3 days ago. So Nan motored over to her uncle, the head man of the village, and when he saw her face, he simply handed the keys to the pump […]
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Oct
18
Crocodiles on the Run
October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I wrote earlier about the chance we may have of seeing a serious flood up here. But so far it has not materialized. But further down river in Korat, there is flooding right now.
And they just reported on Channel 7 news that 33 crocodiles have escaped from a crocodile farm in Korat during the floods. […]
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Oct
18
Back Aching
October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment
And now back to our regular program. Today was a busy day. First off to Putthaisong on the motosai to procure something to eat and drink. We returned home loaded with a case of coca-cola cans, 1 kilo chicken legs, 1 kilo pork and a bunch of vegetables I do not know the name of. […]
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Oct
18
The Heroes of Norway
October 18, 2007 | 3 Comments
I read something in the news from Norway today that makes me a little bit sad. Since most of you that reads this have no roots in Norway and knows very little about my country or it’s history, i’ll try to explain it.
What has happened is that a club has disbanded itself, as it’s members […]
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Oct
17
Another brick in the Wall
October 17, 2007 | 8 Comments
Well, we woke up today as usual, and had breakfast. Then the dudes doing the kitchen for us arrived. Yesterday they had completed 2 1/2 walls. And right now they are banging away with hammers and chissels to make the door, before they brick up the last wall. So that work is going fine […]
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Oct
16
She is Just Amazing
October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments
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Oct
16
Wrath of the Furies
October 16, 2007 | 4 Comments
The building of the kitchen is proceeding fine. But like I experienced with the new hong nam, they are building a little bit backwards here.
The started with digging the foundations for the support columns, and poured concrete and erected these. Then put the roof up. Back home I think they build the walls first. On […]
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Oct
14
Kitchen and Nan the Terrible
October 14, 2007 | 9 Comments
Today we started construction of the new kitchen. We are also going to put concrete on the little yard we have, as every time it rains it becomes a muddy quagmire. And to top it off we are roofing over the whole yard so that we can actually use it. When the sun is shining […]
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Oct
13
Snakes, Destruction and Bugs
October 13, 2007 | 2 Comments
The other day we wen’t to my mother-in-laws rice farm so she could check out the state of things there. She made some offerings and prayers, and since it is next to the Nam Moon river, I did some fishing.
I have to admit that I did not catch anything. But Nan of course did get […]
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Oct
11
A Little Girl, and Some Ceremonies
October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments
There was to be no getting up to go to the temple yesterday morning as previously announced. Nan wanted to sleep a little longer and excused herself by saying there would just be too many people. And she is not very religious my girl. So we slept in last morning.
We got out of bed at […]
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