Every year or so our village near Mae-Jo has a 'clean-up day, when we all turn out armed with shovels or weed-wackers or whatever, to clean up the sides of the roads, cut the grass on the village petanque-field & market, paint the village-hall, or whatever.

Rather than 'hands-on' working, my wife and I were providing drinks, and using our pick-up to provide transport as-needed.

This year the paluang and his assistants had decided, it was time to clean-out and repair the local irrigation-ditches, digging out the mud & weeds and then using concrete to fix the holes, where the water leaks out. So we all arrived with buckets & shovels at-the-ready, and started clearing the silt & mud, to ensure that the water will be able to flow better, once the rains arrive.

About an hour after work commenced, we heard shouts go up, from the top end of the village, so we headed over there, to see what was going-on, and found the villagers closely examining some of the mud, recently excavated onto the side of the klong. Looking closely ourselves, we were surprised to see something glinting in the sunlight, scattered through the mud, and the paluang talking excitedly with the other villagers.

He took a sample of the mud, to send off to the Dept. of Metalllurgy, down at the local University, and has now apparently just got the results back, which he was announcing this morning, on the village loudspeaker-system. He says that there will probably be enough money to cover the cost of our annual sonkran-festival ceremony, where all the over-60s are blessed, and get a good meal & bag of 'goodies' to take home as well.

But I'm still not sure myself, I mean can it really be true, that there's gold 'in them thar hills' ?

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All these activities sound like a lot of fun. Please update us about the valueable metal found in the klong.

ricardo

re .... can it really be true, that there's gold 'in them thar hills' ?

well the bargirls think all falangs pockets are filled with gold !

why should the hills be any different ?

nice one ..... dave2 ..... : )

Please update us about the valueable metal found in the klong.

Sadly, all that glitters is not only gold, but who knows, it might have been, TiT !

Happy April Fools Day.

What's todays date?

How could I've missed that hint!