Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Learn

Hi,

Even though the sky was a bit overcast, it was still a very hot day.  After a morning at 'the wall', our day was done.

Quite a few of you knew this week's 'Easy Monday' tune.  It's by an L.A. band that played lots of venues around the world.  "The time to hesitate is through.  No time to wallow in the mire.  Try now, we can only lose, and our love become a funeral pyre.  Come on baby, __ __ __..."  Hint:  There seems to be a request for pyrotechnics.

This morning we tackled the paint job on the front wall.  There is something about painting in odd positions that takes its toll on the body.  Climbing over plants, reaching around things, and bending and stooping let you know about muscles you'd forgotten.  While we were working, we had a chance to get a closer look at a giant tree limb that fell into the street last night.  I'm not sure what happened, but late last night we heard tires screech, but couldn't see anything.  One side of the street is blocked by this tree part, and it's been there all day.  We have one more panel to paint and then we move on to another painting job.  

One nice side benefit of the tree blocking the street is the slower traffic.  I've had this fantasy of putting in speed-bumps in the middle of the night, just to slow things down.  

Life along the bank of the river is in full time vacation mode.  At first, I used to think that people came to the river for the day, but a few years ago it was clear that when clotheslines are set up, they have moved in for the week.  Crossing the bridge and looking down on the 'village', it looks like there are vendors with food stands, and a make-shift restaurant.  The music started early this morning, but seems very quiet this evening.  I think the threat of rain has calmed things a bit.  Today's photo was taken from the boat dock on Songkran Day. 


Yesterday Cat went to her village to stay with her sister and help her with her food stand near the waterfall.  She spends part of the day helping, and the afternoons playing with her nephew and her friends.  It means that things are different here.  Monday night Daku wandered down the hall, not realizing that Cat was not home.  Oh, the patterns of life.  

Have a Happy Tuesday.

                Peace,
                          Danny  

"I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it."
~Pablo Picasso

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