After a few days of leaving the pond overflow pipe open to drain the nearly daily falling rains, the rains tapered off. And since the pond water level looked like it could go up another 50cm without causing any problems around the land, this afternoon I decided to close it to see how quickly it…
Adding water plants into the pond regeneration zone
So the recent rains have helped fill in the pond, and it is finally getting to a height that would allow us to continue planting in the regeneration zone. To review, the principle behind the sand regeneration zone is that water is pumped from pipes under the sand that have small holes in them back…
Rains of biblical proportions
After a record drought, we seem to have moved on to record rainfall this week. Just a week ago, Praew and I were walking around the pond and wondering why, despite occasional rains, the water level seemed to be stuck at a point that put the whole “floating house” idea in doubt if that was…
Pictures of God rays
Today, I watched as dark rain clouds appeared to the west and blew in. Earlier this evening, I kicked off a quick blog post about watching the wind and rain hit the land. But in the afternoon, I snapped off a few pictures of the clouds coming in. The rays of light shining down from…
Watching a storm brewing
We’ve spent the last few days at the land with Praew’s mother in BaanMae. Just now a dark storm cloud came blowing in. I feel kinda old saying this but there is something quite enjoyable just sitting on the front balcony in my comfy chair and watching the storm clouds coming in. The wind is…
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