Feelings

Hi,

Well, the rain that was predicted happened last night.  We had a good storm that soaked everything and also blew a big bunch of the giant leaves into our yard from the trees across the road.  The temperature dropped so today was cool and this evening even cooler.  As I suspected, there was no work on the pool today.

I realize I threw you a real curve with this week’s ‘Zany Day’ song, but it is a worthy submission.  Here’s verse two:

“Yeah, he’s about the meanest dog there is in town.  He’d bite anybody, my sister or my brother.  Why, he’d even take a plug out o’ my old feeble mother.  Yeah, he even bit the mailman, and he sees him every day.  You say he’s never seen you before, but he wants to jump up and play.  Now I ain’t got a clue as to what you puttin’ down, but 

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __?”  Clue:  The song was first released in 1955 by another singer named for the son of a king.  The title is questioning the allegiance of the singer’s dog.

This morning we stopped by the side of our road and found one of the red flowers I wrote about yesterday.  We were fortunate enough to find a complete flower.  Each petal is 4 inches long and it seems that some people use the inside of the flower while others use just the petals.  

It isn’t often that we get visitors from far away.  A very old friend of Blue’s, who became a friend of ours, comes to Thailand on a regular basis.  I first met Clifford while he was performing in San Jose back in the mid-90s and saw him again at a hotel gig in Phuket a few years ago.  He and Blue talk by phone almost daily.  For this trip, Clifford brought two friends, David and Joel.  They started their adventure in Pattaya, then went to Chiang Mai.  From Chiang Mai they took a road trip up north to Chiang Rai.  They met us at the house and we went to the Night Bazaar for dinner.  We had a wonderful time sharing common experiences, discussing Chiang Rai, and enjoying another great meal at Sawadee restaurant.  We invited their driver to have dinner with us.  He’s been working on his English so he enjoyed listening to the conversations.  I don’t like to drive in Chiang Mai so we may contact him when we visit there.

Tomorrow we will have another new experience.  We’re going to Cat’s high school graduation in the afternoon.  If nothing else, we have experience in sitting through long presentations in Thai and appearing to be comfortable.

Have a Thrilling Thursday.

                Peace,

                          Danny

“Feelings are neither bad or good,

They just are.  It’s what we do with them

that counts.”

~Unknown