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Hi,

Chiang Rai experienced faint sprinkles off and on today.  Not really what you’d call rain.  Keep reading to find out about the big story of the month.

This ‘Easy Monday’ song was recognised by two readers and deemed ‘easy’.  Here’s the second verse:

“Another day __ __ __, I think it was the Fourth of July (repeat).  People talking, really smiling, a man playing guitar singing for us all.  Will you help me change the world.  Can you dig it (yes I can).  And I’ve been waiting such a long time for today.”

For almost eight (8) years we have been living without a clothes dryer.  It’s one of those luxury items we got used to being without.  In the early days we just accepted it because there weren’t many in Chiang Rai anyway.  Then they started appearing at the appliance stores with very high price tags.  Then those prices started inching down. Fast-forward to today, with six people needing their clothes washed on a rotating basis during the rainy season.  Tubular clothes racks can only hold so many loads at a time.  Today we changed all that and bought a dryer.  The store sent two guys out this afternoon to install it.  Now we get to read the manual and learn how to use it properly.  Things have really changed since we last had a dryer.  All I can say is:  Let it rain.

While we were waiting for all the business to be handled at Sinthanee, after committing to the dryer, I wandered over to the motorbike area.  There was a new Honda model wearing a familiar graphic.  Today’s photo is a Honda Moove with the Paul Frank monkey.  I found this to be an interesting collaboration.

This is the first week back to school for Cat after mid-terms.  If students don’t pass a particular exam, they are retested.  That is part of the business of school this week.  There are some mid-terms I wish I could have re-taken back in the day.  While the system is very different than in other places, there are many things that are the same all over the world.  A high value is put on final numbers.  Hmm.

We’ve always known that Daku was a smart dog, but lately it’s even more apparent.  He has quite a vocabulary.  No, he doesn’t talk, but he understands a lot more English than we gave him credit for.  Aside from daily patterns, he will react to key words.  After dinner Lisa said something about going upstairs and Daku jumped up and headed for the stairs.  We used that word when he was young, to get him to go up the stairs and I guess he remembers.  Golden Retrievers have the potential to learn up to 200 words.  He’s got a good start on that.

Have a Happy Tuesday.

              Peace,

                        Danny

“Worry does not empty tomorrow

of it’s sorrows.  It empties today

of it’s strength.”

~Unknown