Another from paddling the rice fields in Songkhla ...

What a great set of photos Jim.

The third one without doubt is my favorite.

Shaggy,stop taking photos and get back to work !!!

Watching the skill and agility of this young man with the tractor was amazing.

Here are some pictures of the different things I've tried to grow, and after testing them I found out that rice, corn, chili is what I need to grow.

KBK

Here we are about to get some cow dung, but it is hard work, so in the future it will be the chicken shit as it can be bought by the truck load.

I may have posted this series before, if so, please forgive me, I don't remember and I don't want to go back and look and search functions have yielded zero.

Making charcoal.

Cut wood.

Go to village rice machine(?) for rice hulls.

Get busy with the wood.

It's hard work and I swear I would have helped her but somebody had to MAN the camera.

Kidding....I worked too.

She who must be obeyed ponders the future of her "RICE PADDY EMPIRE".

^ SWMBO not looking too happy!! .... Great pictures though!

Near Ranot, Songklha .... about 5 kms...up a dirt road, a lone farm house and a few cattle!

Found an old harvest photo and might have trouble getting old-style photos this year as I saw a brand new Kubota combine in the field yesterday. I am hoping the farmer that tends our small plot will do it the old way.

Buffalo Plough Racing Issan stlye

I see hundreds of those but I don't know what to call them. "Sala" seems too refined. "Shanty" seems a little weak. "Shack" is good but maybe disrespectful. What are those structures called in Thai? (I would ask the wife but she isn't home at the moment.) "Wee Haak" might work!

I see hundreds of those but I don't know what to call them. "Sala" seems too refined. "Shanty" seems a little weak. "Shack" is good but maybe disrespectful. What are those structures called in Thai? (I would ask the wife but she isn't home at the moment.) "Wee Haak" might work!

I'm the same as you and just don't know what to call them also my wife is asleep at the moment so I can't ask her.

I see hundreds of those but I don't know what to call them. "Sala" seems too refined. "Shanty" seems a little weak. "Shack" is good but maybe disrespectful. What are those structures called in Thai? (I would ask the wife but she isn't home at the moment.) "Wee Haak" might work!

Wife is awake now and calls them " ka Top " .At least that's what it sounds like to me.

I see hundreds of those but I don't know what to call them. "Sala" seems too refined. "Shanty" seems a little weak. "Shack" is good but maybe disrespectful. What are those structures called in Thai? (I would ask the wife but she isn't home at the moment.) "Wee Haak" might work!

Wife is awake now and calls them " ka Top " .At least that's what it sounds like to me.

• กระต๊อบ [ กฺระ-ต๊อบ ]
• grà-dtóp
• hut ; shack ; shanty
• This is what Thai2English shows it to be

approx. 7 months after we bought the ducks, we got a duck that was pregnant and we got 13 ​​little ducklings, here is the ducklings approx. 1-2 måmeder later, it is a great pleasure to see them grow up.but it is also a great pleasure to eat them :-)

KBK

every once and again there is a "wow shot" .... today T dog gets the award so far post 2589 from me anyway! All others great too, KBK welcome from me too!

While we are Ducks .... Shaggy duck is looking much better these days! .... all a happy family now, too....

No sign of eggs yet,... but young fellow, thinks soon!

That's Shaggy at the back still grooming!

we bought these chickens in Det Udom local market, why they were colored I do not know but all thai like them.we bought them because it was not always easy to get hold of a chicken for soup in our village. without being sure I believe all of them are eaten as it has been 2 years since we bought them.

KBK

approx. 7 months after we bought the ducks, we got a duck that was pregnant and we got 13 ​​little ducklings, here is the ducklings approx. 1-2 måmeder later, it is a great pleasure to see them grow up.but it is also a great pleasure to eat them :-)

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KBK

How long was your duck pregnant for

approx. 7 months after we bought the ducks, we got a duck that was pregnant and we got 13 ​​little ducklings, here is the ducklings approx. 1-2 måmeder later, it is a great pleasure to see them grow up.but it is also a great pleasure to eat them :-)

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KBK

How long was your duck pregnant for

Darn :-) did not see that one (thanks googel translate)

A family from our village all working together pulling the rice plants and stacking them ready to be replanted.

It still baffles me how they manage to work like this for days at a time.

My back was aching after only doing half a day working like this.

Even the old rooster had his head down.

Ploughing and bringing in sugar cane for planting

I've wondered why they die the chicks too... never got an answer on that...

This is for DAL ... Mr Scare crow!

It was used for target practice .....

This must be a dog house Sala... ? Who's in the dog house now ?

Could not find this earlier! .... (it's actually a windup toy.... but cute anyway!)

Some where I have a live blue chick, but it's hiding right now~ !

Seeing all those excellent photos of gra dtot structures reminded of this one I rested at when I was a bit lost up in the hills on the mountain bike. Ended up wandering into a Hmong hill tribe village and time slammed against a brick wall. Wood was stacked everywhere, pigs running around the cooking fires, and then I saw this ancient corn mill. Who knows how old that stone is.... Grain goes in the middle of the stone and you pull the lever back and forth to do your milling. Folks living up there were farming to survive and doing quite well at it from what I could see.

More pics from Pai region.... it's like finding a needle in a hay stack!

(pretty certain I have not posted already!)

I was looking at some old jpeg's and wondered when I took them. I found this site:

http://camerasummary.com/

There's a lot of info embedded in the file, more than I ever imagined.