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  1. Makro sells ground pork, frozen, for less than 90 TB/ kg. A kilo makes a bunch of breakfast sausage!
  2. I do use casings. Pretty cheap from Lazada, and my stuffer is a small hand crank job that was about 200 baht, also from Lazada. My #1 hobby as I don’t frequent the bars☺️
  3. I have found I’d Me nearly impossible to register with from Thailand. They require proof of residence in the US. They rejected my voter ID ( one of their listed proofs) because it has both my US address of record and my Thai mailing address. Impossible to reach a human operative.
  4. Fairly typical for menopausal women to put on a little avoir du poids, including my wife, sisters, etc. They are still the women I love. Ain’t exactly a greyhound myself these days.😃
  5. I have read that the bond was underwritten by a branch of The Chubb Group, which operates insurance companies, e.g.. I suspect the decision makers have visions of name changes on some fancy real estate at relatively bargain prices.
  6. I recently bought a kilo of hog casings from Makro Price was okay, but haven’t opened the package yet. I’ve bought sheep casings several times through Lazada, mostly sent over from China. Pretty variable quality, but my production is small so an occasional hole is not too awful. Would like to learn a local source for beef casings.
  7. Always been a concern of mine, and aghast at the number of drownings I see in the Thai media. As a former Red Cross Water Safety Instructor it especially horrifies me. Do they not have similar programs here? A dearth of visible evidence suggests not. Ring buoys for example should be available at all swim venues. The swimming pool in my village e.g. has no signage or access control beyond the ubiquitous orange cones across the car park entry at “ closed” times. When building a pool in the US it is usually required by statute to control access via some barrier such as a chain link enclosure. One of my PT jobs was to lifeguard a condo pool for a few hours in the AM before the regular guard came on duty. Opening such positions to foreigners, even as volunteers, might have a salutary impact. But TIT. Thai people COULD do such if there were any mechanism to do so, but it is evidently easier to just have more children than preserve the ones on hand. One of the few instances along with traffic safety issues where I will engage in “Thai bashing”.
  8. For some reason the image of squirrels crossing streets comes to mind.
  9. To wai is polite. It cost nothing and is usually appreciated as an indicator of one’s willingness to be a member of this society. Some obvious areas are that it is never amiss to wai to a monk. I always wai to one of my ( too many!) doctors. I wai to immigration and police if I have occasion to interact with them. I have achieved sufficient grey hairs to usually be the initial recipient, and have no problem with returning a below the chin wave, as I am usually encumbered with my cane. Really not rocket science. I also wave to folks I know who are beyond wai distance and always get a return wave and a smile.
  10. Pretty much daily. My Thai wife does most of the cooking, or orders in what she thinks I SHOULD eat. Once in awhile I am allowed pizza or a burger.😉 Spaghetti from 7-11 is allowed, too.
  11. I came to Thailand to experience Thai people and culture, not hang with the same old crowd.
  12. At a time of little income and no insurance I had a rotator cuff injury. They can be severely painfull to the point of weeping. A friend made some chocolate cookies with appropriate herbal enhancement. We found that 1/2 of a cookie gave livable relief without undue cognitive impairment. Unless someone has experienced such pain I believe they should be quiet re: someone’s choice of how to deal with it absent recourse to criminaly expensive health care and addictive opioids. My opinion.
  13. In my you younger years I smoked my share. I eventually quit as it was having a notable effect on my cognition. That contrasts with a friend who earned a Phd in analytical chemistry despite living in a veritable cloud of ganja smoke. There is no “ one size fits all” approach to the conundrum.
  14. Clear to where? I need to deposit the funds to my BKK account, not having access to any fungible accounts in the U.S.
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