We lost one of our cats over the past month to a slow and grueling cancer. Thai veterinarians don’t appear to do euthanasia for terminally ill pets. (At least none of the 5-10 in our area that we contacted would.) Something about losing a pet, particularly when it is slowly and painfully, makes one take…
Random: Sleeping like a dog
Our dog, Builder, taking a nap on the ground
An airplane that can take off in a driveway?
I’ve been interested in airplanes since I was a young kid. Maybe because my father was an aerospace engineer. So I read about Burt Rutan and his VariEze and Long-EZ kit plane canard designs and dreamt that some day I would grow up and build one. But life took me more in the direction of…
Random: Dog sitting in water
I was working on the land this evening, and noticed one of the resident dogs was just sitting in the water and watching me. She was there without moving for about 10-20 minutes. The dog on the left side of the picture above is sitting on the sand. But the one on the right is…
Random: Can a monitor lizard climb a tree?
I do admit that I have never actually wondered if a monitor lizard can climb a tree before. But I was spending a bit of quality time with the pack of 6 semi feral dogs that hangs out on our land to see if I could bribe them with some dog treats into accepting that…
Random: Old pictures of Mee Seua
I keep seeing this picture in my gallery every time I upload a blog picture, so I figured I’d post it. This is our newest cat named “Mee Suea” (Bear Tiger) when we first got her. She is about a year older now. Still quite clumsy for a cat, though.
Random: American Fried Rice
For those of you new to the interesting delights of Thailand, I figured I’d introduce you to one of these delights. It is always interesting being in a foreign land and seeing how they look back at the country you came from. So in that vein, I bring you… American fried rice! While I am…
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