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Hi,

Chiang Rai had a little cooler day today.  We had a big wind last night that seemed to change things.  The air wasn’t clear today but it didn’t stink like before.  More wind please.

The ‘Easy Monday’ song was “Tax Man” by The Beatles, from their 1966 ‘Revolver’ LP.  Time to get crazy with the  ‘Zany Day’ song.  “Well, I sit here gettin’ ideas, ain’t nothing but a fool would live like this.  Out all night and runnin’ wild.  Woman sittin’ home with a month old child.  __ __, __ __ they oughta take a rope and hang me.  High from the highest tree, woman would you weep for me?”  Clue:  This one is by request/suggestion from my zany brother.  The artist was recently featured with another of his zany creations.  The first word in the title is an old slang term.

This morning the yard crew came for the last time.  Starting next month, Gong will be maintaining the yard.  When they arrive we usually leave so we don’t have to listen to the weed-wacker noise.  

There is a water leak at the Healthy Market and it has made half of the parking lot unusable.  It was a lake a few days ago and it’s still like that.  It makes parking more difficult than usual, but we found a place and handled our shopping.  There is a long table inside the market near the back of the flower stands.  Most days there are 3 or 4 young women sitting on the table making the beautiful garlands that are taken to the temples as offerings.  It’s tedious work that they make look easy.

 

We had a road trip adventure after our stop at Home Pro.  Our destination was Makro, which is north of the city, and we were south of the city.  The new alternate ‘ring road’ on the east of town was our choice in order to avoid the traffic.  It really goes much faster than the Super Highway and before we knew it, we were at the airport and turning towards Makro.  There was a time when the road by the airport was a scary two-lane road with a shoulder that just dropped away.  I love new pavement (555).  We saw a sign that pointed to Mae Sai and now we’re wondering if this new road will take us there.  That would be nice.

In Thailand there are three New Years celebrations.  There is the January first celebration, the Thai New Year at Songkran, and the Chinese New Year celebration.  Songkran is the longest of the holidays.  We get to celebrate two of them, but always miss the first of the year since we’re in the States.  Hmm.

The mangos on our little tree are growing.  We have no idea how big they will get, but they’re starting to look like the real deal.  Daku sampled one last week, but I didn’t get a review from him as to taste and texture.  He just chomped away.  He hasn’t tried anymore so maybe it wasn’t to his liking.  I hope not, since there is a seed in there and he has no discretion when eating things like that.  

Today’s photo is the mango tree, taken by Natcha.  I guess we’re all pretty excited about having another fruit-bearing plant in the yard.

Time for Wacky Wednesday.

                  Peace,

                            Danny

“Only thing worse than watching a bad movie

is being in one.”

~Elvis Presley