Hi,
We had a Hot Valentine's Day here in Chiang Rai. Lots of action in the flower market.
Only one person responded to the 'Easy Monday' song. Hmm, maybe you didn't listen to the verses. Here's a chorus:
"We could have had it all, __ __ __ __, you had my heart inside your hand and you played it to the best. Tears are gonna fall, __ __ __ __." Clue: Seriously, this is Easy Monday.
This morning while Lisa was getting a massage I went to the flower market to pick up a bouquet for Boot and flowers for La. What Lisa didn't know was that I was in league with Cupid. I ended up coming home with flowers for everyone. The market was like a zoo. There were more flowers than usual, bouquets, arrangements of different sizes and tons of single roses with beautiful ribbons. The street was crawling with shoppers young and old. There was also a store that sells stuffed animals and they were doing a brisk business as well. It's always interesting to see how much 'celebration' is embraced here.
Today we got email from our first set of travelers, Tony and Sherry. They're in Laos now. Tomorrow we're going to dinner with Joan and Bob. We'll be having lunch tomorrow at Santiburi Golf Resort. It is a giant property south of town that consists of a golf resort as well as land that can be purchased for private housing. Our friends Poui and Jimmy are going to build a house there right next to a lake. We've seen photos and tomorrow we'll get to see the property after lunch. For those of you interested in the sport of golf, Chiang Rai has three golf courses. Amazing.
The last little storm we had blew tons of leaves into the yard. When we bagged them up the bags were put outside the gate for the trash pick-up. Apparently they don't take things like leaves. The bags finally left today on the back of Khun Kek's truck, along with the rest of the cuttings from todays 'grooming' of the yard. The normal procedure in our area appears to be to burn them. We refuse to do that, so they're gone and will probably be burned somewhere else, or maybe put on a compost heap. One can only hope.
Have a Happy Tuesday.
Peace,
Danny
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but
in looking outward together in the same direction."~Antoine de Saint Exupery
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