Over the past few days, I have been monitoring a strange jelly like organism (or colony?) growing in the pond. It grows root like (or tentacle like) strands down into the water. The top part accumulates bubbles inside to make it float, and the part the floats out of the water gets crusty in the…
DC solar powered water pump hooked up
Today, we hooked up the DC water pump. The glue on the PVC pipes wasn’t dry yet when I was there, so we didn’t get to fully test it out. But the idea is that the water main flows into the 900L water tank with a float valve to stop it when it is full….
Electricity wiring between the houses
I wrote recently about the biggest digging project we’ve had on the land that we used our home build excavator for. Since the trenching was completed, the next few steps turned out to be much more complicated than I had planned for. Not difficult. Just complicated. It starts with the story of the AC 220V…
Happy days are here again
Weekends are for relaxing at home with the things that make us happy. Today is a happy day.
Lily in bloom
Walking around the land today, I noticed that the lily pads in the pond are flowering. We planted them for aesthetic as well as cleaning purposes. All water plants consume nutrients in the water. The more nutrients the plants consume, the less is left for algae and other undesirables hopefully resulting in clearer water over…
Outdoor kitchen finished
The outdoor kitchen for BaanMae was finished today. You can see the finished trellis that was only partially done last time I posted a kitchen update. Also, the sink and faucets are installed. (“Taps” for you Brits. 😉 Under the sink, we installed a UV and carbon water filter. It is a standard 3 step…
Baking traditional poppy seed treats from Europe
Praew has been baking this weekend. I was craving something with poppy seeds and she delivered with two recipes she got off of the internet. The first one was poppy seed hamentaschen. My mother used to buy these from a local Jewish bakery (around the time of year when these are traditionally eaten) on her way…
We had a new visitor today
We had a new visitor on our land today… A cat! Keep in mind that a pack of about 4 dogs sleep directly below where this cat was hanging out. So we were a little afraid for the cat’s life. But based on how skinny he is, I think it was desperation and a risk…
Sling wire on the front balcony rail
The workers finished installing the sling wire on the front balcony of BaanMae in the last few days: This was always the plan, but we told them to wait until they had nothing else more urgent. And thus it lingered for several months. But now it is installed. Mostly it is a consequence of our…
Solar power box update
More progress on wiring up the DC solar power box: Last time I left off having mounted everything in the box and mounting the box on the side of the house. Today, we have the internal wiring done. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to have the solar panels and batteries connected up, and then BaanMae will officially…
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