* In February we said "Ahhhhh!" a lot. That's because northern Thailand's so-called winter is like western Oregon in late May and everyone is in good spirits. Sunny, but not what Lian calls Big Sun. Every day was like being on vacation ... and we live here.
* In March we made a quick trip back to Oregon for Lian's green card interview. Here's how nervous she was: when the interviewer asked for her last name, Lian literally could not remember. And I could not prompt her in any way. We'd still be sitting there if I didn't finally stage-whisper: "Starts with M ..."
* In April we built a vegetable garden space in the front yard -- and by "built" I mean we hired four young dudes to dig the bed, line it with stone blocks and spread a pickup-load of organic soil while we stood inside the front window and drank ice water and watched. Cost me all of thirty bucks, including tip. Now we'll see how (or if) Oregon green beans, spinach and tomatoes thrive in sub-tropical climate. Results so far are, uh, mixed: the spinach seeds hate Thailand and want to go home. The beans are sullen but slowly germinating. The only star performers are the cherry tomato plants that turned out to be a kind of tomatillo; I brought the wrong seeds back from Oregon. D'oh!
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| My favorite kind of yard work. |
* In May Chiang Mai is ridiculously hot as temperatures rise to triple digits by late afternoon. Then storm clouds blow in from nowhere, a windstorm whips up, and we get thunder and lightning and sometimes torrential rains, followed by a power outage ... and then it's sunny again. Same thing day after day. Crazy stuff.
* In June I'll fly back to Oregon for some business-taking-care-of, while Lian heads south to visit her mother in Bangkok. Maybe then we'll have ''travel adventures" to write about?
We will leave Lian's 16-year-old son, Dao, to water the plants and mind the house while we're gone. What could go wrong with that?
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