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Hi,

The big news was last night’s rain.  I mean real rain, the kind you can hear when it hits the roof and the trees.  It was enough to create a dramatic drop in the Air Quality Index (AQI) that we track during the days.  We are now in the moderate zone, meaning we can leave the masks if we’re not out too long.  Our world smells better and all the trees and bushes look happy.  

The ‘Easy Monday’ song was “My Girl” by The Temptations.  The ‘Zany Day Maybe’ song might be one you remember:

“I never met a girl who makes me feel the way that you do.  (You’re alright)  Whenever I’m asked who makes my dreams real. I say that you do.  (You’re outta sight).  So, fee-fi-fo-fum, look out baby, ‘cause here I come.  And I’m bringing you a love that’s true.  So __ __, so __ __.  I’m gonna try to make you love me too.  So __ __, so __ __ ‘cause here I come.”  Hint:  The singer is urging preparedness.  (555)

This morning the yard on the side of our house looked like a little village.  There was Yee and his wife, a helper and his wife and child, Nitchanan and occasionally Natcha.  The giant plants were going to take a village to bring them down.  They had to go and get some wood to make a scaffold so they could reach certain points, but the job was done and they cleaned it up in stages.  Whenever the pile got out of hand they would load it into Yee’s truck and take it somewhere.  That’s the part that gets me.  Stuff gets taken away, and usually dumped on an unsuspecting, empty, overgrown lot.  Think, mulch.

While the tree work was going on, Khun Naa was working on the pool.  There was a lot of plant debris on the bottom and no doubt in the filter.  It was beginning to turn a greenish color but by late afternoon it looked like it was returning to normal.  

We returned to Bangkok Hospital this morning for another routine bandage change on Lisa’s ankle.  There is a lot of improvement.  The fact that these visits are now pain-free is cause for celebration.  On Friday she will see the doctor again and we’ll get a ‘real’ progress report.  We’re getting close to ‘swimming air’ (new term) and it would be nice for her to be able to enjoy the pool.

There was a volley of fireworks a few minutes ago, just north of us in the village of Namlat.  It signified the close of a funeral ceremony.  One of those things we've come accept as part of life in Thailand.  

Today’s photo is of the giant palms that got trimmed.  They are very tall, and when the big winds come, some of them break and hang in the neighbors yard.

Feels like a Wacky Wednesday.

                      Peace,

                                Danny

“There is only one valuable thing

in art: the thing you cannot explain.”

~Georges Braque