Photos
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Pink Water Buffalo Photos!!
A few weeks ago, Nam wanted to buy some more maternity clothes so we got in the car and headed off to Non Kuan Chang (sp?), a nearby village with the best silk shop in the region. The shop is run by my coworker’s mother-in-law, with several looms and weaving machines on an elevated bamboo work area outside and an extension of their big house used to hold/display finished products. I took photos there the first time I visited Sarakham seven or eight years ago and need to do so again; today I’m not writing about silk though. Max had fallen asleep in the car on the way, and since…
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Spondias mombin aka ma-kok (?????)
Somebody brought in a bag of these the other day and I’d never seen them before so I had somebody write down the name. If I’m summarizing correctly, this may be a kind of olive, or related to olives. What I know is that it was really bitter and sour, the taste of bitter fruits that make your mouth pucker or what the Japanese call shibui (astringent). That explains the bag of chili-laced sugar the ma-kok are sold with (although this also accompanies sweet fruits as well; pineapples, sour mango, various indigenous “apples,” etc.) I have to be careful to record all of the rare stuff I encounter here because…
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Pinky’s still alive
I found some snaps I took with my phone pretty soon after they arrived. Here’s one:
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Five jive colors of haplessness (aka Maxie Brushing Chicks)
Luring them in. Brush! Brush! Brush! They got away! A few weeks ago, Max’s grandmother brought over these little guys from the night market in a neighboring town, Nong Vang. I wasn’t really keen on the idea of keeping them at first because I was afraid Max might kill them… He’s still too young to understand his strength or about hurting things. Sure enough, the couple weeks was filled with episodes of Max almost strangling the yellow one, Max stomping on the yellow one and hurting its leg, and as shown above, Max coercing them into various forms of Godzilla role play. As it turned out, however, the chickies were…
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Another great sunset
We’re very happy to have built this house facing sunsets over the pond.
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blue swimming cap
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Backwards Baby Bjorn
Yes, it works*. And yes, those are red boxers with white hearts on them. No, that’s not why I took the color out. I did that because my complexion turns to “mottled tomato” on really hot days (lots of those in Thailand). The screens we’re going through are goza-like rolls we’ve hung from a curtain rod in front of the front door to block the sun at the end of the day, because our house faces the sunset. *It doesn’t quite feel right, though, maybe a bit like putting a t-shirt on backwards.
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Papa Piggy
Almost a month ago, a big storm came and blew my ceramic boo-chan (pig-shaped mosquito coil holder) over. As you can see, he did a Humpy-dumpty which made me really sad because I bought him for half off at Jusco in Sumoto a few years back and will probably never buy a 7,000 yen ceramic pig ever again. Luckily, it was nothing two and a half tubes of super glue (the most popular brand in Thailand is called Power Glue) couldn’t fix: Actually, if you look closely, you can see that mommy pig’s been put together again, too.
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Yellow Max Has a Friend
//////////////////////// Previous colors of Max: purple max green max monokuro max red red max orange max sepia max coppermine max blue max
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Bill’s Bar Sound, Nara ( ????)
A sodden karaoke snack is all that remains. Thx to T for the pic.
