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your farm well in the wilds

not like the one I used to spend time on which was based in a village of 2000

keep well look after yourselves

the locqal water works next to the lake

cutting a cane field

after harvest

the lake

her house house

back of the house

a young field of cane

village pond

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Thanks Annat.

  You can have the city's and even the large towns for that matter , I have never been a people person so being here is great . There is only the light animals and insects doing their calls and the birds of an early morning.

  Please keep posting your village and farm pics. .

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On 3/28/2020 at 12:30 AM, stoolpusher said:

Thanks Annat.

  You can have the city's and even the large towns for that matter , I have never been a people person so being here is great . There is only the light animals and insects doing their calls and the birds of an early morning.

  Please keep posting your village and farm pics. .

and what has happened to the village cockerels at 0600 ot the puibarn on his loud speakers at 0530 and of course the village dogs barking on and off all night ha ha ha

a few more photos

a village event similar to Loy Katong

songran village parade

our bedroom

songran again

cane growing

the b-b-q- barnin

how tall the sugar cane

our house or better her house

flowers in the garden x 3

Buddah day at the temple 0700

cats when kittens x 2

waffle and her making waffles at the local market

and herself

sad to say I miss it and I miss the house, the cats, the family and her - but life goes on - well I hope it does with this bloody virus one does not know

 

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I am a Buddhist so the Temple loud speaker is normal to me and I am a dog person so no worries,  what gets me is the locals wonder around ours and joining farms all hours  the night looking for a type of  big gecko ( lizard) that they sell . 

  Cool photos mate , the last one is yummy for sure .

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Here is a little more on salt farming in Tha Bo , after the salt water has seeped through the soil and caught in the bucket it is then tested for its salt content by seeing if a heavy nut from a tree floats,  if it does then the water is taken to the hot plate for the evaporation process. It takes about 4 hours for the solution to evaporate then the salt is collected, dried and then off to market it goes .

In photo order . Salt after the evaporation starts.

   The water waiting to go on the hotplate.

    Water seeping through the salty soil .

  The salt boiling 

  The little nut for checking the salt content. 

 

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We have started getting the rice fields ready by burning the old crop, then the tractor will come in and brake the ground up before the rain come so then the planting process can start. Rice seed will be used instead of seedlings , it takes a little longer for the crop to mature before harvesting but less labor involved . 

   I will post more photos once the planting starts.

 

WARNING: please refrain from making smart ass comments as they will be removed .

Thanks . 

 

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It depends on what province you are in , Nhong Khai still burn all rice and sugar cane and anything else that comes to mind , that's according to our local city ( council)  member who lives around the corner from us .

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who's the cutie in the first pic? contact info? :)

what's the longest amount of time you've spent there, not counting trips into Udon or other real city? My usual spot in LOS is in the middle of miles of cane and rice fields, the only thing to do is one of many night markets around the area. Maybe we hit Phen once in a month.

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On 5/29/2020 at 4:36 AM, JustSumGai said:

dang Annat, that gal has some nice tits, look real, no sillycone. Decent size village too, nice home. You done good.

Sad to say that all finished over a year ago

she drank most of the money i am afraid

But life goes on as I am now stuck in my bungalow for 8 weeks while we wait for the First Minister to let us do something

here is my new friend

and in her heyday

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beyond the typical newbs worry of being drained of money, the gambling and drinking and maybe yaba (you're not there so how can ya know?) is as bad.   They just don't deal well with downtime.  Not like they're gonna read a book.

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Its rice planting season,  here is a bit on the process. 

  After the ground is prepared for planting there are two ways its done .

  Sticky rice crop .

1) the seed is hand cast or they use a fuel driven blower that is carried on your back ( sorry no picks of that ) , then 3 to 4 months later it is ready for harvest .

2) The seed is hand cast in a concentrated form for maximum coverage,  it gets to about 30 cm high then pulled out and put in bunches ready for planting in a prepared field by hand  or  tractor.  Then by September- ish the crop is ready for harvest. 

 1 ,2 ) The planted crop

 3 , 4 )  Pulled out shoots , bunched up and ready for planting 

 

5,6 ) A couple more of the before and after .

I will take some pics as the crop matures 

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I've always been curious if replanting it spread out and in regular rows produces a bigger yield.  Polly used a tractor rotary spreader last year and few bald spots.  She probably could have had the guy use half the amount of seed.  This year she went back to hand broadcasting and got the typical whacking great bald spots everywhere so she'll have to wade into the much and bunch some up to fill those spots.  Also, is sticky rice a kind of rice strain? or is it just the steaming of it that makes regular rice sticky? LOOKIN GOOD there, seems someone has done this before.

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1 hour ago, JustSumGai said:

I've always been curious if replanting it spread out and in regular rows produces a bigger yield.  Polly used a tractor rotary spreader last year and few bald spots.  She probably could have had the guy use half the amount of seed.  This year she went back to hand broadcasting and got the typical whacking great bald spots everywhere so she'll have to wade into the much and bunch some up to fill those spots.  Also, is sticky rice a kind of rice strain? or is it just the steaming of it that makes regular rice sticky? LOOKIN GOOD there, seems someone has done this before.

It was my first go at planting today , I was a lot slower than the guys doing it for years . They plant about 1 a second ( My speed was about 1 every 5 seconds) .

  The problem with hand or blower casting , you know you have covered it all then the rain comes and washes it all over the place .

   We will plant two types of rice , Sicky rice ( yes it is a strain of rice ) and Jasmine rice ,( I prefer Jasmine) 

 The last photo was of next doors crop planted by tractor, so we didn't do a bad job .

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4 minutes ago, globetrotter1 said:

Encountered any snakes yet? 

Had a couple around but the scorpions are getting to be a nuisance, we have had 2 in house in about a month but there are probably more in side .

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So being Big Buddha day today we ( Dao ) decided to go to the big Temple in Ban Phue ( about 15 minutes from home ) " Wat Phochaishi ".

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