I would like to highlight the mighty bamboo tree or is it a shrubbery? The endless supply of free building materials.

I would like to highlight the mighty bamboo tree or is it a shrubbery? The endless supply of free building materials.

Worlds Biggest Shrubbery there Dancealot !

Very versatile , and you can eat it as well !

Not exactly farm orientated , unless you wear this T-shirt on the farm as my wife does ,

But this is a Shrubbery as well !

Gotta laugh , even if it just me

Not exactly farm orientated , unless you wear this T-shirt on the farm as my wife does ,

But this is a Shrubbery as well !

Gotta laugh , even if it just me

I'm with you. Genius t-shirt.. I could wear it...

What time is it, honey?

Well , the shirt is on the line now , gotta be Shrubbery Love Time Now !!!!!

Farming Celery

I would like to highlight the mighty bamboo tree or is it a shrubbery? The endless supply of free building materials.

Beautiful photo there DAL

Bamboo does have many practical uses and taste pretty good as well.

Is it a tree or shrubbery....well neither actually,it is a member of the grass family

Neighbours mother teaching her about growing cassava whilst Pa prepares the fertilizer.

You stuck it through there.....so you can get it out again !!!

Bit like My Beach Bungalow at Hua Hin,after the Kids were there last week.

You stuck it through there.....so you can get it out again !!!

Lovely photo Mr Shaggy !

Pumping water into the paddy from a klong.

All irrigation around here so no problem to get more than one crop.

Threshing day.... Their crew was two people short as one fellow got bit by a meter long Cobra as he was walking through the long grass toward the machine. Off to the local clinic for him. Farmers here say that they rarely see Cobra in this area so it was his unlucky day.

From a few years back . . .

Prawn farm restaurant... Amphoe Thoeng, Chiang Rai.

^^ Prawn farms good ...

Double threshing...Double the fun~

Off to throw a bit of rice around the place.

Corn fields I have seen many in my days, but this was the first time I saw the processing part of it. The corn goes on the truck, and the cobs down onto the ground.

Wonderful photos again today folks !!!

A marvelous assortment of threshing,decobbing,Etans,ponds and Robby's crazy looking tractor....top class !!!!

Calf basking in the sun whilst mother grazes in the back ground

^ There's more to that story.

Guess who broke the golden rule about getting too close to a young animal with a protective mother nearby?

I blame it on my camera actually,if it had a better zoom then I wouldn't of taken that extra step closer ......but I did,.......and Mother didn't like it

Firstly she came and checked her young one....(Shaggy takes a few steps back.)

Then she decides that I have worn out my welcome......head down, horns pointed......and chaaaaarge !!!!

(her head went a lot lower than in the photo below,you will have to excuse me for not taking a photo.......I was too busy running backwards !!!)

After managing to put a safe distance between myself and the angry mother,I turned around....only to see the big smiling face of the farmer

that had witnessed my little encounter with one of his cows

Gave a Wai and Sawadee krap,took his photo and then got out of there ASAP..........Not VERY embarrassing

NB.....No animals or Shaggy's were injured in the making of these photo .......(thankfully !!!)

Cabbage pick-up.

Another little shelter,quite a lot of work put into this one.

Pumping water into the paddy from a klong.

All irrigation around here so no problem to get more than one crop.

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I looked, biologised, at this shot for a long time, Robby.

Thank you.

FIL has rice paddies far off the beaten path. He was pumping water all day but it was't enough. He came home ate dinner and headed back out for the night with MIL, supplies, and trusty muzzle loader. He didn't want to leave his equipment out alone. I asked W if the gun was for hunting, she said "no, for thieves".

"Wild, Wild (North) West."

FIL has rice paddies far off the beaten path. He was pumping water all day but it was't enough. He came home ate dinner and headed back out for the night with MIL, supplies, and trusty muzzle loader. He didn't want to leave his equipment out alone. I asked W if the gun was for hunting, she said "no, for thieves".

"Wild, Wild (North) West."

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Had a similar thing years ago involving a brother inlaw.The previous night,he had the pump running and during the night someone unhitched the iron buffalo and drove it down into the klong.This night he was heading off to stay there overnight to look after it and had a mozzie net,bottle of lao daeng and a rifle.I asked him what would happen if someone tried it again and his face broke out with a wide grin then he picked up the rifle,aimed it and said in a loud voice " BOOM ".I doubt whether the body would have been found.

Sorry Ron, ran out of likes ... nice photo above ...