Praew and I decided to spend one night in Chiang Mai city on Friday. We stayed at a very secluded boutique hotel named Tri Yaan Na Ros Colonial House right on Wua Laid Rd: It is on a main road but it has a secluded feel with a cozy garden inside. Just the kind of…
BaanRimNaam update: walls mostly done
Here are some pictures of the BaanRimNaam construction taken over the last few days: The walls are mostly up. We have been discussing with the workers how to build the lower roof which protects the balcony from rain. The posts you see on the last picture will support that roof.
New project: building a slow sand filter
I’ve been wanting to try experimenting with slow sand filtration of water for some time now. A quick Google search on “slow sand filter” yields interesting pages from the CDC, the WHO, Wikipedia, and a site with a wealth of information on the subject at biosandfilter.org and slowsandfilter.org They all agree that slow sand filtration is…
Eight eggs in one day
Our ten chickens were nice enough to give us eight eggs today. It required a little bit of improvising to come up with containers to carry them home. (These are actually the boxes our circuit breakers came in… but still have 4 eggs left.) One of them must have come last night after we left.Two…
Walls going up on BaanRimNaam
I’m fascinated again by how quickly the outside structure of a house goes up during construction. The workers are now putting up the wooden walls on BaanRimNaam. Every day we swing by to check on things and the house takes shape a little more. Here is a view from the inside: We are using a…
More progress on the driveway
We’ve been laying a lot of cement recently, and yesterday we laid down a bit more. Here are some pictures of the driveway almost completely done: Pretty soon I will be able to use it to park the car!
Solar panel electricity in low light conditions
I posted yesterday about getting the second pump shed wired up to solar panels. One interesting tidbit I noticed when checking it around dusk was the fact that the panels were generating electricity quite late in the day. Here is a picture of how low the sun was relative to the panels: Here is the…
Electrical wiring with VAF cable and 3D printed clips
The reason we have been using PVC conduit for most of our electrical wiring is that Praew always found the aluminum clips that one uses for mounting VAF wires to the wall ugly and cheap looking. We went through all the effort of building a simple and rustic looking wooden house… so we are trying…
All three solar powered circulation pumps are up and running
After testing the first solar panel powered pump for more than a month, we recently installed the solar panels on the second pump shed. It took a little longer to get the solar controller wired up to another hand wired prototype pump motor controller, but today was the first day that that was turned on…
Eggs, eggs and more eggs
More of the chickens are starting to lay, so we ended up with about 5 more eggs today alone. One broke trying to remove it from the coop. I gave two more away at work. And I took the last two home for dinner. Praew is coming home late today so K’Tanawat asked me if…
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