Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
A continuation of the Cows in My Backyard series. Sidenote: I’ve noticed missing graphics here and there as a result of our recent move to a new webhost. I’ll fix these soon, but in the meantime, clicking on the placeholder for a missing graphic on this site will almost always bring it up full size […]
Well, more of the empty lot next door than our backyard, but hey, the important thing here is the cows, right? If you’ve stuck around this blog since I made my move to Maha Sarakham, Thailand, you know that I’m somewhat obsessed with the flora and fauna surrounding me (whether I end up eating it […]
There are more cows in my backyard! The sound of bells means the cows have come for a visit. I haven’t seen them since the last time I wrote about it, mostly because they usually stay on the far side of the irrigation ditch that separates our back wall from a dirt road running parallel […]
I woke to the sound of bells and a desultory “moo.” Like my bro said, now I’m in the inaka. I like it.
A photo from a road trip to a dam in Kalasin (a neighboring town) last month. I just had to stop the car to walk among them even though it was 100 degrees outside. In other news, I am still trying to perfect my channel mixing skills – the grass in that field wasn’t actually […]
So the short version of this story goes: Today I got caught speeding 50kph over the (unposted) speed limit I paid a fine on the spot and was released I love Thailand! |||||||||||||||||||||||| I have this running joke with people who ride in my car and ask what the funny device attached to my windshield […]
A couple weeks ago a calf was born on my coworker’s mini dairy farm. These mini-farms are prevalent on the more remote parts of this island, often limited to less than a dozen cows. Anyhow, I got around to asking how the calf was doing today and was told it had gotten sick and died. […]
As I said in my last post, the cows in my backyard were a sign, and who the hell am I to ignore a sign? Either God or the cows were telling me to have a barbecue. So I fired up my brand new GhettoGrill and much meat was consumed, and all was good with […]
I’ve now fully implemented my improved ad-hoc Google+ system for my weekend classes and have found the greatest barrier for entry to be that some students cannot use the net except for clicking on virtual cows and Like buttons. After having them sign up for Gmail and Google Plus and showing them how I want […]
So we went to Koh Samet for a few days with a bunch of my coworkers and some of their families. It was awesome, but I feel the need to write about what’s been happening around here before moving onto editing the trip photos and video. Max and Mina started school on May 18. Max […]