Thursday, April 24, 2014

Music

Hi,

The heatwave continues, but life goes on in Chiang Rai.  The traffic lights are coming back, along with a return to civility (555).  

No one seems to know the 'Zany Day' song for this week.  The group's first hit had to do with a tambourine.
"Then it's time to go down town where the agent men won't let you down.  Sell your soul to the company who are waiting there to sell plastic ware.  And in a week or two if you make the charts the girls will tear you apart...."
Hint:  This ten word title has to do with becoming something you are not.  Follow the directions and be a star.  Hmm.

This morning as I returned from taking the girls to The Brain, I got stuck in a very odd traffic jam.  Today was 'street washing' day and I was two cars back from the big, new, shiny tanker truck from the fire department.  It was inching along spraying water out of the left side.  On the street there were men and women with stiff brooms, scrubbing and sweeping the water toward the curb.  This went on for a long block, nothing to do unless you wanted to get blasted by the fire truck.  A few blocks down I saw the old tanker truck with a guy using a hose to do the same thing.  That's what I call spring cleaning.

This Saturday we're having a little swimming party for friends with tiny little kids.  As it stands there will be about 20 adults and 7 children.  The staff from The Sold Project is also coming so it will be a very connected group.  Everybody knows each other.  

This afternoon we have three of the air/con machines serviced.  They last longer if they get regular, professional cleaning.  This heatwave is not the time to have something go wrong with our number one source of relief.  While they were working we moved to the kitchen.  Lisa and Cat worked from an English/Thai book, working on pronunciation.  There are many sounds that are 'foreign' to the Thai tongue.  The ends of words seem to be the hardest thing to learn.  A word like change, might sound like chain.  There are no percussive endings so words sound like they're trailing off.  We have the opposite challenge with our English speaking mouths.  Cat has a good ear and is very eager to keep trying until she gets it right.  Her English will just keep getting better and better.  

After the air/con guys left, we found relief from our second source, the pool.  It was warmer than yesterday and if it keeps up, it will be too warm to swim.  What?  Not gonna happen.  There is a storm forecast for Sunday and the timing couldn't be better.  

Today's photo was taken in our front yard.  The Morning Glory vine has started blooming and looks brilliant against the newly painted portion of the wall.  


Have a Thrilling Thursday.

                Peace,
                          Danny

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
~Lao Tzu

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