We have some beautiful yellow gold colored birds living in the cattails around the pond. K’Tanawat said that they are called “nok cummin” which translates as “turmeric birds”. Presumably because they are the color of turmeric powder. Unfortunately, my camera is not so good at this level of zoom. I should get a better camera….
New Project: building a wagon for moving things around the land
I’ve been wanting something for a while now to move large objects around the land. The workers have been using the pickup truck we bought, but after a rain, it tears up the mud and sometimes gets stuck. The long term plan was to move things around on the walkway with possibly automating some kind…
A large turtle in our cistern
I was pretty surprised to find a large turtle in one of our cisterns the other day. My guess is that it fell in and couldn’t get out again. I helped it out on the end of a hoe. The dogs were very interested in it… I let it out by the pond. I wonder…
They threw some water plants in with the trees
The guy we bought trees from was pretty excited by our organically filtered pond and mentioned he had a whole bunch of water plants that we could grow in the filter zone that he would throw in for free. The plants were thalia geniculata plants. First we had to clear all of the invasive Thai morning…
Thai cherries from the new tree for breakfast
I picked a bunch of the Thai cherries for breakfast a few days ago: I noticed the new tree was dropping ripe cherries to the ground almost as soon as it was planted: I washed them and then picked out the seeds by hand. These things are mostly seeds. Then I threw it on top…
A walk around the land to check out the new trees
I am very happy with how the trees have turned out. It is always a bit hard to imagine it before hand, and when the workers are around we are always focused on making sure they don’t run over something important in their truck (which happened), or dig through some of the electric wires when…
It was a glorious sunset yesterday
Yesterday, we took a walk around the land to water trees just before sunset. The sky was amazing… again. The sky in the other direction had a nice rainbow. A bit difficult to make out in the photo, buy if you look carefully you can see it.
Pictures from a week of planting trees
We spent the week this week planting trees. It was quite tiring despite the fact the we didn’t personally have to do any of the actual work. 😉 Praew took the lead here and scoped out the various plant shops around the ring road and chose one. She ordered 14 trees, almost all of them…
Adding floor boards and ballast to the ferry boat
Things have been really busy on the land in the last week. We’ve been planting trees and wiring up lights and testing out a new rainflow diverter that I’ve taken pictures of and will try to post over the next few days to get caught up on. But first, I thought I would post an…
Yesterday on land, today in the water: the pontoons float!
I’ve been writing a lot about the experimental pontoons we’ve been building recently. Well, yesterday we got a chance to assemble them into a kind of rough boat (raft?) and take it out onto the pond. First the welding team along with the help of some of the construction workers carried both of the pontoons…
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