Front yard needs a haircut
We’ve been having a lot of funky weather like this recently: Raining while the sun shines.
View ArticleA fruit on my tree
Oh, my Gac! Or should I say, fuck cow? The tree I planted a handful of gac vines under, in a pot, allowed just one enough shade to survive a full year. I’ve only spotted one fruit so far, but I’m...
View ArticleCatching Giant Snakeheads with an Excavator
In the past couple of years, the pond in front of our house got seriously overgrown on the banks (as well as on the surface) with reeds, vines, and other opportunistic vegetation. Yesterday, the banks...
View ArticleBoba Fett Birthing Station
So my wife left for Japan for two weeks yesterday, and shit got immediately real. On top of single parenting, working, and doing homework for Masters class, I was somewhat unhappy to find that a feral...
View ArticleI found a dinosaur
I found this on the street just in front of our house last week. Either it got run over during the rainstorm the night before, or the cats claimed another victim.
View ArticlePing pong anywhere
Well, it looks like I’m going to have to buy this boy a ping pong table (table tennis table?). Luckily, it looks like used ones go for 1/3 the price of a new one here…. but they’re mostly down in...
View ArticleDragonfly table
So this happened lol. We were looking for a used table. They cost about 3,500 to 4,000 baht for a decent one. Delivery would be around 1,000 baht since there were none for sale around here. Went...
View ArticleFarewell to Nam Kaeng
The Nam Kaeng (Thai: “Ice”) Cats come and go at this house, but Nam Kaeng was special because she was so sassy and a patchwork quilt kind of mean girl. The first time she ran up to me, I thought she...
View ArticleSnakehead in the Gutter
Last time it was a pla salid (Snakeskin Gourami). No pics, but today we found a dead pla chon (common snakehead) in the pool of water that forms on the street to the side of our front yard. It was...
View ArticleFlooding in Sarakham
Today we were hit by a sudden storm that dumped a whole lot of water on us, very quickly. This year’s weather has been very wet and relatively cool for Thailand, and it’s been raining almost every day....
View Articleflutter by
The camera on this Desire HD is pretty damn good. Photo taken in our side yard.
View ArticleSliding on Christmas
You would think that it would be hard to get hurt on such a small slide. You would be wrong (blooper reel to follow).
View ArticleAngry chick
Earlier this month Max and I found this angry little bird waiting for us in the driveway when we came back home from school. It didn’t seem to be injured, just juvenile and not really able to fly very...
View ArticleIn the tank: Notopterus Notopterus, Oxyeleotris Marmoratus, and Hypostomus...
Max and Mina have interesting fish in their aquarium (a real one, not the ghettoquarium) – besides Pleco, the armored catfish from South America (algae eater Hypostomus plecostomus), who came with the...
View ArticleBlack and pink in a sea of green
A family clay project that ended in Mina smashing everything together. The green sea is an army tarp I throw over my beautifully finished hardwood table outside so it doesn’t get destroyed by the sun...
View ArticleHi-so in Sarakham – New Sermthai Complex, Maha Sarakham
Lunch @ Oishi Ramen New SF Cinema has 5 or 6 theaters, 2 in SONY 3D Some famous Thai TV dude ——– Three years ago, when we moved into this house, many people doubted my choice of location. I simply told...
View ArticleView from our front porch, 1/1/2020
If you live here long enough, power lines become invisible.
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