Praew took this picture of the land and house as it got dark. Something about it made me think that this is what it might look like if we began living in the house. I think we are getting close. 🙂
Starting to plant the wetland biofilter
We have begun transplanting native water plants that are growing naturally around our land into the sand in the biofilter area of the pond: I figure we will do this as a slow process over time. The water level should rise now that the (relatively) dry season is mostly past. So as the sand becomes…
Laying down cement for walkways around the house
We began laying down the cement for the walkways around the first house. This house is meant to be for my mother in law, and we’ve been planning for a long time to construct a walkway that can be used to circle the house with a walker for exercise, or even in a wheelchair just…
Cold spell hits Bangkok
Yesterday, the temperature plummeted here in Bangkok. Overnight I saw the temperature get down to about 18.5C (about 65F) although I’ve heard that it got as low as 13C (55F) in some places. When compared to what is happening to our friends in the eastern United States, or in South Korea, or most places in…
New thatch roofing on the pump sheds
While I designed the pump sheds around the pond out of polycarbonate because it is a lightweight, inexpensice, easy to source, weather proof and versatile material, I always intended to cover it in thatch (spelled จาก in Thai) for aesthetic reasons. After I saw the thatch roof on the chicken coop, I’ve been reminding the…
Solar panels for second pump shed installed
We’ve been running one of the pumps in the first pump shed using solar power for about one month now. The pump in the shed on the opposite side of the pond has been dormant since we first tested it after installing it. But as of yesterday, we now have the solar panels set up…
Solar panels mounted
We mounted the solar panels onto the roof today We built a structure that can fit two rows of 6 panels each but we only filled it with a set of 4 panels in the center 2×2 section. Here is a picture from a nearby bridge outside the land that gives a slightly better view:…
Pictures of our little rice paddy
K’Tanawat has been experimenting with a small rice paddy on the side of the pond near the pump shed we built. He is using a strain of rice that doesn’t need to be flooded all the time to grow, so it uses a lot less water. Here are some pictures: He just watered it a…
Metal trees walkway roof completed
We have now fully completed our “metal trees” walkway. Here are two pictures: The first one is at dusk and the second in full noon-time sunlight. The polycarbonate roofing is a bit more green than I imagined it. I’m kinda hoping that it gets a bit dirtier in the next few months and comes out…
Mounting for solar panels on roof nearly complete
Since we sourced the 6 new solar panels recently, we had to build the structure for mounting it on the roof. In the process, we ended up realizing that the shallow slope of the back balcony roof was even more shallow than it was supposed to be due to what was probably a slight error…
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