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It’s nice having a truck
Someday, I will make a list all of the vehicles I have owned over the years. A truck has never been among them, until recently. After our neighborhood and my…
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Allomyrina dichotoma
Female, I guess. AKA Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Japanese horned beetle, or kabutomushi (カブトムシ). They show up in our yard at least once a year. The males are more impressive, with…
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pickle
This pic reminds me of a photo of her mom, Donut, as a kitten. Here, Pickle can be seen resting on the track for our front gate. She routinely sits…
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moblogging again
Its been nearly 20 years since I set up a moblog sidebar and posted tiny pictures from my Hitachi clamshell over iMode to my MovableType blog… But today I just…
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Surviving the Great Floods of 2022 in NE Thailand (Part 1)
It’s been six weeks since my last post… On October 5th, at around 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, I wrote about how the whole country was flooding from heavy rains…
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Killer Mantis
@ our back porch railing around 8 months ago. He was warming up before the hunt:
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Online Teaching at Thai University
The biggest COVID wave so far spread through Maha Sarakham from a couple months ago, so my university postponed the new term until this week. I’m teaching four Public Speaking…
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View from our front porch, 1/1/2020
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Farewell to Nam Kaeng
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…
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Monkey at Yoshida Manor
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Dragonfly 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…
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Ping 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…
