Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Smile


Hi,

We finally had a day without rain here in Chiang Rai.  It was beginning to feel like Seattle (Ha).  Our trip to the country was put off until tomorrow, so today was filled with 'in town' stuff.  It was a good day.

The 'Easy Monday' song was "Yesterday" by The Beatles.  The 'Zany Day' song may not be as easy, but it's fun:
"I went and bought myself a ticket and I sat down in the very first row, wo wo.  They pulled the curtain but then when they turned the spotlight way down low, wo wo.  __ __ came out strutin' wearin' nothin' but a button and a bow, wo wo singin' 'Yeah yeah!  Yeah yeah!, Yeah yeah!, Yeah yeah!."  Hint: The two words are the stage name of the main character and there's a country involved.  What?

This morning the pool guys came to do their usual job and discovered a problem with the filter pump.  It seems that the temporary capacitor that was installed last week allowed too much capacity (Ha) and it stopped working.  Johan arrived with a proper one and the day was saved.  Unfortunately it was misty this afternoon and the water temp was down to 77.  Had it not looked like rain we might have put on our wet suits and gone in anyway.

We went to Makro for some supplies and realized that it's not as simple as it used to be to go there.  With the highway repaving still going on, we have to go past our usual U-turn and then sit in one lane of traffic.  It's still no where near the traffic in a big city, but you get used to just going a certain way.  When the work is done the ride will be smoother and that will be nice.

Mornings at the vegetable market are always interesting.  You never know what you might see.  Today a young man drove into the market on his motorbike with a load of wrapped packages.  I don't know what they were but it must have been important.  He sat there with his motor running until the woman in the stall made him turn it off.  Sometimes we see people come in on their bikes, but it's just a quick drive through or they're coming to work.  There are enough vendors in the market that if one doesn't have what you want, another one will.  All except celery, which seems to be out of season right now.

Our masseuse, Joy, has moved to a new location.  Atom has been talking to her and explained where it was so we made a date to go see the new place today.  We picked Atom up from work and made our way to Viviene's for coffee before going to see Joy's place.  After a fun time over coffee we found the location of the massage 'shop'.  It's a large, two-story house and it's beautiful compared to the shophouse she had before.  We will get back on our regular schedule next week.  I can hardly wait.  Below is a photo of the new place.  The house on the right is her new home as well as place of work.  

                     The New House of 'Joy'

Might be a Wacky Wednesday.

                   Peace,
                              Danny

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thich Nhat Hanh 

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