Adapting To Be Able To Live At The Farm

[Dancealot]

Trying to watch snooker.

Trying to get a better 3g signal using the motorbike basket through tunnelling the signal like a satellite dish does.

Helping out putting food in the bags for selling at the market everyday and drinking beer on the side ;-).

Every Saturday driving the kids and players to the local village football match.

Checking the corn we planted by hand 1 week ago.

Changing the snake into to khapreaw, starting of with burning the skin.

Playing 6red snooker on the jungle table farang-thai, results 1-1. B100/game.

Preparing plah tooh myself Last pic.

[cooked]

Great fotos, keep 'em coming...

[revar]

snooker? driebanden!

No speedscating(schaatsen) on tv

Waking up at 05.00 am from the speakers at the wat.

Serving beer at 06.30 to visitors.

Drinking lao gow 40 at 07.30 am.

Trying to find out if Feyenoord won with an internet connection which diconnects every 20 seconds.

But loving live more them ever before.

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Edited December 8, 2012 by revar

[Dancealot]

Preparing the sequel

[Dancealot]

snooker? driebanden!

No speedscating(schaatsen) on tv

Waking up at 05.00 am from the speakers at the wat.

Serving beer at 06.30 to visitors.

Drinking lao gow 40 at 07.30 am.

Trying to find out if Feyenoord won with an internet connection which diconnects every 20 seconds.

But loving live more them ever before.

Sent from my GT-S6102 using Thaivisa Connect App

3banden is voor oue lullen

Translation: Playing snooker whit out holes to down the balls is just not that fun.

Edited December 8, 2012 by Dancealot

[Humbugged]

Good to get involved like that.

[Dancealot]

Putting rain water in the bottles. Daily job.

Collecting snails from the field so that the bird don't eat the rice seeds we previously planted.

Stirring up some soil.

The 11 fingered girl next door

Beerlao to comfort myself

Moving the bbq because of ,smoke nuisance complaints, from the fellow sellers at the daily market.

And handfishing

Edited December 8, 2012 by Dancealot

[tingtong]

first of all, nice photos

if internet is important for you, as for me, and fed up with these so called 3G USB stick nets, then CAT has a real 3G net with fingers-like rooftop antennae and it works as a charm....we are really out on the sticks, about 2km away from a dusty village, and probably 10 klicks from the nearest mobile tower.

the catch: intallation with all the things, inclusive the wifi router = 17000thb.

monthly is the normal 590+VAT. they have a limitation to download (4GB/month on the top speed) however surfing is normal all month. The avarage speed i get is about 4-5 Mbps, whereas those USB 3G's sometimes only achived a connect to Yahoo mail in 10 min time.

[Dancealot]

Good to get involved like that.

Yes that is the word i was looking for humbugged. Getting involved is a wonderful way to adapt.

[revar]

living on a farm in the isan:

The only bar in 20km being a noodle-shop closing at 19.30.

Everybody being asleep at 20.30 ( or watching ch7).

about snooker. there was one table in my village but the police told them to remove it because people were playing for money which is illegal. Would love a table.

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[Dancealot]

Free train station haircuts

Cockfights

Fixing the cock

Charcoal burning ;-) Fore you David

Feeding the fish

Selling the fish

Preparing beef snacks while selling and drinking at the local market.

Preparing to go hunting

Edited December 8, 2012 by Dancealot

[Dancealot]

living on a farm in the isan:

The only bar in 20km being a noodle-shop closing at 19.30.

Everybody being asleep at 20.30 ( or watching ch7).

about snooker. there was one table in my village but the police told them to remove it because people were playing for money which is illegal. Would love a table.

Sent from my GT-S6102 using Thaivisa Connect App

About snooker: means someone ratted out on the game. Rule nr. 1 is never show you are playing for money.

[David48]

Mate ... you have the ingredients for a smashing thread ...

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[thaigold]

Oh Lordy ... Now I know I'm staying in Bangkok.

[jamescollister]

Is it me or have you all just had soft lives. lived on and off in a stilt hut 6 years, bucket showers, slept on a board, Had to eat what was proved, maybe cooked in farang way, but lived. Have lived in worse environments. NZ one room hut, so cold that the water froze at night. Scotland, far north in a little caravan. First house England, had no money for bed or furniture, slept on the bare floor. Oz lived in a tent picking fruit, hotter than Hades, Plus a few other jobs where you had to sleep in the bush, snow etc without any comfort.

Take a few spoonfuls of cement and harden up, got a roof over your head and food o n the table, you are doing better than a lot of people in this world.

Try sleeping on the streets of New York in winter, which I had to do and anything is better. Think a Russian guy once said, after a Gulag in Siberia, if you can live through that, all the rest is easy. Jim

[Mark1971]

Is it me or have you all just had soft lives. lived on and off in a stilt hut 6 years, bucket showers, slept on a board, Had to eat what was proved, maybe cooked in farang way, but lived. Have lived in worse environments. NZ one room hut, so cold that the water froze at night. Scotland, far north in a little caravan. First house England, had no money for bed or furniture, slept on the bare floor. Oz lived in a tent picking fruit, hotter than Hades, Plus a few other jobs where you had to sleep in the bush, snow etc without any comfort.

Take a few spoonfuls of cement and harden up, got a roof over your head and food o n the table, you are doing better than a lot of people in this world.

Try sleeping on the streets of New York in winter, which I had to do and anything is better. Think a Russian guy once said, after a Gulag in Siberia, if you can live through that, all the rest is easy. Jim

555

We only really discover ourselves by experiencing a bit of hardship.

I am working in the arse end of Russia right now.

The place is a dump, but the pay is great & dreaming of our retirement in Thailand always helps.

[Dancealot]

What does hardship got to do with this? I am confused now.

[loong]

first of all, nice photos

if internet is important for you, as for me, and fed up with these so called 3G USB stick nets, then CAT has a real 3G net with fingers-like rooftop antennae and it works as a charm....we are really out on the sticks, about 2km away from a dusty village, and probably 10 klicks from the nearest mobile tower.

the catch: intallation with all the things, inclusive the wifi router = 17000thb.

monthly is the normal 590+VAT. they have a limitation to download (4GB/month on the top speed) however surfing is normal all month. The avarage speed i get is about 4-5 Mbps, whereas those USB 3G's sometimes only achived a connect to Yahoo mail in 10 min time.

I don't know what you mean by "fingers-like rooftop antennae" but it was a few years back that I had my antenna installed. Totall cost was 4,500 Bt, but no WiFi router.

WARNING.

My antenna was hit by lightening. Fried my modem and computer and I had to throw away my underwear

Thailife has made some very informative posts about antennas in the mobile internet forum, but would probably take a bit of searching to find them if interested.

[Mark1971]

What does hardship got to do with this? I am confused now.

No need to be confused, sometimes a thread can wander off track.

Keep the interesting photos coming.

Thanks

[Lickey]

16 of us, lived in cardboard box int middle of road, wede get up 2 hours before we went to bed ect ect ect,

Anyway, great pics and posts DL, always enjoy a good post!!

[tingtong]

first of all, nice photos

if internet is important for you, as for me, and fed up with these so called 3G USB stick nets, then CAT has a real 3G net with fingers-like rooftop antennae and it works as a charm....we are really out on the sticks, about 2km away from a dusty village, and probably 10 klicks from the nearest mobile tower.

the catch: intallation with all the things, inclusive the wifi router = 17000thb.

monthly is the normal 590+VAT. they have a limitation to download (4GB/month on the top speed) however surfing is normal all month. The avarage speed i get is about 4-5 Mbps, whereas those USB 3G's sometimes only achived a connect to Yahoo mail in 10 min time.

I don't know what you mean by "fingers-like rooftop antennae" but it was a few years back that I had my antenna installed. Totall cost was 4,500 Bt, but no WiFi router.

WARNING.

My antenna was hit by lightening. Fried my modem and computer and I had to throw away my underwear

Thailife has made some very informative posts about antennas in the mobile internet forum, but would probably take a bit of searching to find them if interested.

what i mean is not a satellite dish. but rather look like an old fashion TV antennae.

luckily the speed also not of those sat. internet speed, like the village have....and as i said, it is remote enough that there is no chance of telephone line in the next decade or so...i know the istalling was pricey, but as i see, it well worth for me.

hey, a round trip with a local car to KK is about 800-1000thb, so, factor that in too.

Edited December 8, 2012 by tingtong

[Humbugged]

What does hardship got to do with this? I am confused now.

Some people are soft, they believe living and hardening up....makes you right in the head for living in the country.

[jamescollister]

What does hardship got to do with this? I am confused now.

Adapting To Be Able To Live At The Farm

Sorry I didn't need to adapted just to live, if fact it is a far better life than I had. Jim

[patongphil]

first of all, nice photos

if internet is important for you, as for me, and fed up with these so called 3G USB stick nets, then CAT has a real 3G net with fingers-like rooftop antennae and it works as a charm....we are really out on the sticks, about 2km away from a dusty village, and probably 10 klicks from the nearest mobile tower.

the catch: intallation with all the things, inclusive the wifi router = 17000thb.

monthly is the normal 590+VAT. they have a limitation to download (4GB/month on the top speed) however surfing is normal all month. The avarage speed i get is about 4-5 Mbps, whereas those USB 3G's sometimes only achived a connect to Yahoo mail in 10 min time.

I don't know what you mean by "fingers-like rooftop antennae" but it was a few years back that I had my antenna installed. Totall cost was 4,500 Bt, but no WiFi router.

WARNING.

My antenna was hit by lightening. Fried my modem and computer and I had to throw away my underwear

Thailife has made some very informative posts about antennas in the mobile internet forum, but would probably take a bit of searching to find them if interested.

what i mean is not a satellite dish. but rather look like an old fashion TV antennae.

luckily the speed also not of those sat. internet speed, like the village have....and as i said, it is remote enough that there is no chance of telephone line in the next decade or so...i know the istalling was pricey, but as i see, it well worth for me.

hey, a round trip with a local car to KK is about 800-1000thb, so, factor that in too.

I went down the CAT usb route then tried a AIS usb, both with no joy. One day it dawned on me that my phone had a good signal and pretty good internet so now I tether my phone to laptop via bluetooth and am pretty impressed with the result. Sure well beats the previous 2 attempts.

[Dancealot]

What does hardship got to do with this? I am confused now.

Adapting To Be Able To Live At The Farm

Sorry I didn't need to adapted just to live, if fact it is a far better life than I had. Jim

Imagine that. I would go that far but this life surely beats a 9-5 job in the west. Yes.

[Dancealot]

Without any further a due

Waiting for hunting

More waiting

Cooking tomyam something.... Cannot reveal the contents.

Relaxing after

Enjoying the Etac ride

Farang cooking egg cha-am

Open air restaurant&garage. Spread the risk in your business. Thais are clever.

Fuelling up the truck. Or is it the other way around?

[Gary A]

I'm a farm boy but I still require a lot of creature comforts. No roughing it for me. The windows in the house have screens, there is a sit down toilet and the bedroom is air conditioned. I don't watch TV but it is here. I do use the Internet a lot and it is actually pretty good. I have a gas BBQ but my wife still uses charcoal once in a while. My favorite watering hole is up on a mountain about 10 kilometers from the house. I go up about twice a week to have a few beers. I'm very content living in the boonies. I do have a lot of toys and a big workshop/garage.

[Humbugged]

What they hunting DaL ?

[BookMan]

Nice thread Dancealot. Thanks for sharing those pics

[Mosha]

Getting invites to weddings in the middle of nowhere.

Going to wakes in the middle of same

Getting a book out cos the electrics off again.

Watch the trees across the road

Writing flightplans for the flight sim

Sunday check how Leeds United did.

Wouldn't live in a city if they paid me to.