We were waiting for our friends to come hiking back up the steep hill at sunset when the sky exploded.
Southern Thailand hits different.
Category: Photos
eryngii father and son
aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes*, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster
*According to wikipedia, this is misleading nomenclature because boletus (which has pores) and eryngii (which has gills) are of different orders. All I know is that eryngii is delicious and it’s very hard to cook wrong.
buff
@Nam’s mom’s house
Phuket Shopfront
Just a cool shot from the driver’s seat. From a few months back.
Assekoeken
Couque d’Asse is a popular Korean-made cookie featuring a delicate, crisp biscuit with a creamy white chocolate or coffee filling, often sold individually wrapped. The name is a nod to the French word “couque,” meaning “cake,” and “d’Asse,” which refers to the Belgian city of Asse, although the cookie itself is a modern snack from Korea.
To add a bit more to the cultural mix, this is a Japanese cookie being sold in a Thai department store.
Why did they make the “D’asses” plural if it refers to a singular Belgian town? Because they love couques?
Marco Pony
I found these at Big C Maha Sarakham (still slowly dying). I just found the brand funny for some reason. But AI told me that it’s an established brand that’s been around a long time. Because of course it is.
The typesetting is just everything I ever expected.
Pickle is Old
She’s been getting sick a lot and has skin lesions since she has FIV and is over 10 years old now. Sad.
I’ve been taking her to the vet pretty often for over a month and she has had a fever on and off for a few weeks. I kept taking her to the vet for antipyretic shots and antibiotics and various boosters, and then out to various parks and ponds for fresh air. The fever finally broke today and she is meowing again.
Violent Fan
Seriously, how did I ever live without it?
Flooding 2025
This was not too bad of a year for flooding, but it has definitely gotten worse than when we moved here. The enlargement of the pond in front of our house and the concrete road sinking has contributed to making the stretch right in front of our house the most prone to flooding. Luckily, we built our house more that a meter off the ground anticipating this or worse. Most of the houses around us get wet inside. Seeing your house surrounded by water is like living in Ponyo world, so it’s not all bad.
showdown
This soft indoor cat came into our backyard and Pickle was like nuh uh.
I felt kinda bad for it and hoped it would come back sometime, but I haven’t seen it.