It has been over a month since I have posted anything but actually absolutely nothing has been going on. I can only talk about rain and rising water so often.. It wasn’t all that interesting the first time so a repeat would be torture if you read it again

I am head to Pattaya again tomorrow and maybe something interesting enough will happen to be worth writing about.. Taking the camera too just in case.

So my apologies for not writing a single word last month but hopefully that will change this month

john

I was headed to Pattaya on the 30th for my monthly getaway when the bus was stopped by the highway police not 20Km from my home.  Usually these roadside checks just flag the buses on but this time they decided to stop and 3 officers came on bus.

They would walk up and down the aisle looking at people then they started talking to them and checking all the carry on bags.  In two of the bags they found what looked like small machetes , about 18″ long or so, wrapped in newspaper.  They made a spectacle out of removing them from the paper then holding them up in the air.  As it turned out these were knives used by what were probably contract harvesters going from farm to farm so nothing was done.

One of the officers finally got to me, they only farang on the bus, and started asking me questions..  I swear he must have been a former bar boy because he asked me,  “whats your name, where you stay,how long you stay in Thailand”

I guess my answers were enough because he just smiled and walked away. I thought  he would at least ask to see passport.  Thats the most excitement, as you can tell by my lack of posting, for over a month..  Maybe something to report in Pattaya..

john

Everything is still pretty quiet up here.  The majority of the people here are still harvesting the crops or clearing the fields to make ready for the next planting season.  Not your actual beehive of activity.  We are still getting plenty of rain around 4Pm which lasts for about an hour or so.  You can almost set  you clock by it.   With all the rain the ponds start to rise which makes an excellent tractor wash location..  That is what Id do, drive into a pond and splash that dirty water all over everything to try and get it clean..

Choa has decided that since on of his relatives hasn’t had a job in awhile that he would let her take over the Noodle business at the front of the shop.  Now he is happy, he doesn’t have to do it.  As you can see preparations are underway.  He is still keeping himself  busy at night with the limited food service and lots of beer and whiskey. 

It is off to Pattaya tomorrow and will be there for 6 or 7 days.  Maybe I can find something interesting down there to write about..  We will see

john