Took these pics in our garden this morning..........

Snake dinner Saturday. Ngū s̄ingh̄̒ (งูสิงห์) Ptyas korros, commonly known as the Chinese ratsnake or Indo-Chinese rat snake. The grand uncle said this one is Ngū s̄ingh̄̒ Ooy (งูสิงห์อ้อย) Olive colour... tastier than the brown colour ones.

Pond clearing Sunday. The boys cleared a total of 436kg from 2 ponds.

Lunch break,

After lunch, continue 2nd pond...

Job done !

Wholesalers Monday, gather for a meeting at my house and small morning drinking session

One of them was knock out by noon.

2pm... Went to District Phan to discuss next batch quota, collect payment and took some picture too.

Took these pics in our garden this morning..........

Great photos of your little visitor,thanks for sharing them

@ RBH...... another great post Sir

Your " ponds " make the one I had made look like a paddling pool,they must be at least 1 rai in size

Got to try me some snake one day,If it is as good as crocodile then the snakes had better watch out !!!!

Come next harvest, I'll show you some of my 2 rai ponds, I've got 4 of them.

Wife inherited quite a big plot of land, ( a reason why i married her. )

Watching my friends in Songkhla, mixing and spreading fertilizer on one of their rice fields...

One sack 46-0-0 to two bags 16 -20 -0 ..... mixed carefully and then spread by hand ! Repeat until all the paddy done! (12 rai on this patch)

Took four of them about 2 hours .... early morning.... man it was hot..... by 8 am! ..... and I was only watching !!!

Field was flooded after application...

While analyzing the number of downloads of my resently posted pictures, I've come to the conclusion readership is high on trying to identify who are my wholesalers.

Would you like to have their contact numbers ?

While analyzing the number of downloads of my resently posted pictures, I've come to the conclusion readership is high on trying to identify who are my wholesalers.

Would you like to have their contact numbers ?

Maybe they all were just trying to do the same as me,trying to guess which one of your wholesalers was knocked out by noon.......my guess is the chubby one wearing glasses.

Mini mart

and the

Mini,mini..........mini mart

With the consent of WF i can show these:

Worms excrete wormcast which is a high nutrient fertiliser / plant food.

horse manure for feeding to worms

wormcast after harvesting and sieving

concrete ring used as worm bed with sprinkler

tiger worms

chickens for protecting the worms

concrete rings as worm beds

@ Dancealot. Thanks for posting those photos mate and of course many thanks to Wormfarmer for kindly agreeing to share them.

I have seen worm farming in Thailand before,but not on this scale....that's an awful lot of worms and compost !!!

Was that a typo in the first photo Dal?that surely must be cow or pig manure.......stop horsing about

@ Dancealot. Thanks for posting those photos mate and of course many thanks to Wormfarmer for kindly agreeing to share them.

I have seen worm farming in Thailand before,but not on this scale....that's an awful lot of worms and compost !!!

Was that a typo in the first photo Dal?that surely must be cow or pig manure.......stop horsing about

This is all direct information from the wormman, the wormsource. Everything has been verified, approved and quite genuine.

I whish Jimmy would scale down his new photo's. I have to make my browser smaller but then it's hared for me to read. . Getting old !

While analyzing the number of downloads of my resently posted pictures, I've come to the conclusion readership is high on trying to identify who are my wholesalers.

Would you like to have their contact numbers ?

Maybe they all were just trying to do the same as me,trying to guess which one of your wholesalers was knocked out by noon.......my guess is the chubby one wearing glasses.

The "fluffy" one is on a strict Lao Khao diet.

@ Dancealot. Thanks for posting those photos mate and of course many thanks to Wormfarmer for kindly agreeing to share them.

I whish Jimmy would scale down his new photo's. I have to make my browser smaller but then it's hared for me to read. . Getting old !

ah yes, I was wondering if that was causing some problems...for you guys.....

It seems google plus / picasa have changed the size options to "full size" or "for web", when uploading.... I choose for web... This change has come about in the last couple of weeks.... Darn nuisance.. .. the previous options they had were much better.

Why they just don't leave things alone!

Is anyone else having the same problem with Picasa ??? It must be due to latest version> ?

@ Dancealot. Thanks for posting those photos mate and of course many thanks to Wormfarmer for kindly agreeing to share them.

I whish Jimmy would scale down his new photo's. I have to make my browser smaller but then it's hared for me to read. . Getting old !

ah yes, I was wondering if that was causing some problems...for you guys.....

It seems google plus / picasa have changed the size options to "full size" or "for web", when uploading.... I choose for web... This change has come about in the last couple of weeks.... Darn nuisance.. .. the previous options they had were much better.

Why they just don't leave things alone!

Is anyone else having the same problem with Picasa ??? It must be due to latest version> ?

OK been trying to check this out.... I just see that it does not down size the images under "best for Web" It's the same as the original So they have a bug to fix there....

I just tried this, but need feed back from you guys... resizing using Google Plus... a long tedious way of having to do things

How does this work for size .....? ..... 1280 x 853 approx... Perhaps should be smaller yet?

This are the 4 ponds that i rented to expand my business, 2 rai each. I've plans for next year that is too divide each pond into two 1 rai ponds for better management.

This season's fingerlings just arrive this morning...

3 pictures forming 1 Panoramic view...

3 pictures forming 1 Panoramic view...

Big Oui fingerlings in.

@ Jimmy

Do the 800 or 1000 like everybody else does.

Bear in mind many of the farm enthousiast(like myself) are on an aircard which can be very slow in the sticks.

Think of the readers before posting.

I am currently working on my Cabbage Report so here's already a preview. (in 1000)

@ Jimmy

Do the 800 or 1000 like everybody else does.

Bear in mind many of the farm enthousiast(like myself) are on an aircard which can be very slow in the sticks.

Think of the readers before posting.

It was Google Plus giving the problem, of choices of size... I have now deleted that .... and hope that going only from Picasa, that the images will be back to normal size for everyone.... ( I just hope the already images uploaded don't go south..... )

Fricking pain Google Plus!

I'm using ACDSee Photo Management 12, resizing to 1000 x 750 is the preferred size for me.

I'm using ACDSee Photo Management 12, resizing to 1000 x 750 is the preferred size for me.

Aha! I deleted ACD..

I am using a clandestine/ midievel 1MB freeware program called PIXresizer for the past 5 years. For any beginner a good start . Only 1 screen/about 10 options. Easy/simple and fast

I'm using ACDSee Photo Management 12, resizing to 1000 x 750 is the preferred size for me.

Aha! I deleted ACD..

I am using a clandestine/ midievel 1MB freeware program called PIXresizer for the past 5 years. For any beginner a good start . Only 1 screen/about 10 options. Easy/simple and fast

I used to use ACDsee it's a good program ... I even used to do Beta testing for them... But now I am only a Mac user, and they have not got their Mac version anywhere close to PC version.

I am still sorting Lightroom, but it is laziness or not enough hours in the day, to get too serious about it!!! !

This is a long dusty road to the rice paddy.... Hope that size it better....

several kms in from the main road

Excellent post , Jimmy. The romantique of any particular situation never seems to go unnoticed by the likes of you.

Alas i am out of likes for the day..

I like it too jimmy, i thought of a caption : " Road to Success" Dusty and difficult at first... Clear path and sky's the limit.

@ Samuijimmy

The last set of photos you uploaded are a lot more comfortable to view.

The ones before were OK to view on my desktop monitor (big widescreen)

but on my notebook I needed to scroll and slide to view the full image.

Great photos BTW

@Dancealot

Thanks mate for sharing your cabbage photos,another first on this thread

Variety is the spice of life,so they say.

Also my apologies regarding the manure,should never of doubted you !!!!

Keep up the great work

@RBH

Those are some cracking sized pond you have there.

Do they take much maintenance keeping the water level at the desired depth?

How many fingerlings did you add this time,80,000 again?

Another great post from the fish man (& pig man)

How about this for a nest full of Muscovy duck eggs (22 in total) and everyone of them hatched out.

Photo of Muscovy mother and her 22 babies.

The hen that you see also in the photo was a old brooding hen that sat on some Muscovy eggs after some heartless bugger stole the mother duck at night time.

What makes me smile is the mother instinct in her trying to protect her babies from the much bigger Muscovy duck.

Nature can be wonderful sometimes !!!!

22 ! Oh my Buddha ! That's a great accomplishment of a surrogation work for a great hen !

As for the 2 rai ponds, have water year round, 100'000 fingerlings into the 1st starting pond, made a request with the land deity, offering a pig head package & 2 Qt of Lao Khao...

(pig man, ha! you read~ shhhhhh~~~ )

Waiting for the rain!

@ soidog2

Great panoramic shot of your land.

I hope the rains come soon and you will be able to get your next crop of cassava started.

(keep us updated as to how it is doing)