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 Hi,

It’s strange, how acclimated one can get to a certain temperature range.  Then when it changes, it feels very dramatic.  We are now averaging low 70’s at night and it feels like it’s freezing.  

The ‘Easy Monday’ song that was not so easy, was “Blue Monday” by Fats Domino.  It’s ‘Jazzy Wednesday’ time:

“__ __ __ __ __, let me play among the stars.  Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.  In other words, hold my hand.  In other words, baby kiss me.”  Hint:  Written in ’54, but became a hit in ’64 when sung by a guy with blue eyes.  Flying is involved.

This morning JaiDee got to go to The Wanderer.  They have moved their operations into the original building.  Most of the furniture has been uncovered outside and the place is beginning to look like ‘itself’.  We sat in our ‘new’ usual spot because there was a really cute brown cat hanging out in the big room.  JaiDee was pretty mellow until we were about to leave and he saw Khwan.  He tried to calm down but it was too much to bear.  

Today was a ‘Double Day’ in that we went to two of our regular places in the same day.  We had a luncheon date with our friends Jimmy and Poui at Chivit Thamma Da.  We have known Poui since our early days in Chiang Rai.  She had a tiny shop in the Night Bazaar where she sold hand-made earrings and bracelets.  She and Jimmy live at Santiburi Golf Course and Residence.  Jimmy likes to play golf, and was telling us that most courses in Thailand have drastically cut their fees in order to keep their staff employed.  We hadn’t visited with the two of them in a very long time.  When we were talking about dogs, and there was lots of dog talk, Jimmy suggested we link TongTong to JaiDee so she could learn to walk on a leash from JaiDee’s lead.  He said this is how they train husky pups in Alaska, where he lived for years.  We tried it and it has potential.  When we mentioned that we’d be in town for the holidays, they invited us to Christmas dinner at their house.  We’ll be having turkey in Thailand.  Oh boy.

Tomorrow is massage day at The Big Brown House.  If I can stand it, I’m going for 2 hours.  I have had a gradual improvement in certain areas since last week’s massage, so I’ll just let go a little more.  

The driveway circle is doing it’s own thing and we love it.

Feels like a Wacky Wednesday.     Don’t forget to wear your mask.  That ‘thing’ never really left.

                       Peace,

                                 Danny 

“Great things are done by a series of

small things brought together.”

~Vincent Van Gogh