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Hi,

The weather continues in it’s current pattern of warm days and cool nights.  By cool, I mean T-shirt temps in the evenings.  We’re still wishing for a little rain.

The ‘Easy Monday’ song was “Betcha By Golly, Wow” by The Stylistics.  Time for the ‘Middle Song’ by the group:

“Trashmen didn’t get the trash today. Oh, why?  Because they want more pay.  Buses on strike, want a raise in fare, so they can help pollute the air.  But that’s what makes the world go ‘round, the ups and downs, a carousel.  Changing people’s heads around, go underground young man.  __ __ __ __ __ __.”  Hint:  A little social commentary from the Philly Sound crew.  There are references to the title scattered through this verse.  

Last night, in Chiang Mai, we got the longest nights rest in over 2.5 months.  Hmm, that happens to be how long we’ve been living with our new 'alarm dog’.  

Our drive home was uneventful.  We left Chiang Mai around 10:30am and it took about 3 hours and 45 minutes to get home.  That extra 45 minutes was due to the road construction and stopping to eat.  It was interesting to see how the work crews have adapted to living in the middle of nowhere for months at a time.  As we rode through the ‘zone’, I saw little shacks peaking out between the trees and clothes hanging on temporary lines, gathering dust as they dried.  

The big news is that the Loy Krathong festivities are over.  When we took JaiDee out for his walk this evening, the scene across the river was dark, the magical lights were off, and it was quiet.  That means that it will be quiet all night.  

We are very grateful that Natcha and Gong took care of JaiDee, basically for two days.  They stayed in ‘our room’ while we were gone so JaiDee would be in familiar surroundings, and because it’s the only room he can't completely terrorize (555).  We can tell that he got his way with a few things, but I guess that should have been expected.  We were realizing, while away from him, that he is very smart.  He has figured out our responses to certain things and anticipates our reaction to some of his behavior.  Once he grows out of 'puppyville', this could be a good thing.

Today’s photo was taken at Nitchanan’s school.  That’s her on the right, striking a pose for the camera.

It feels like a Wacky Wednesday.

  

                           Peace,

                                     Danny

“If a word in the dictionary

were misspelled, how would we know?”

~Steven Wright