Old men planting trees

Old men planting trees. Jit's dad and his friend from up the path spend time planting trees. When I look carefully at how they arrange the trees and plants they are beautiful.

Today I got to do some film photography of the community making a peanut sesame candy. It was great. I need to get the film developed and scanned as soon as possible. Hopefully we can get a ride with somebody to do some grocery shopping.

Spiders in the house! I have seen a couple large spiders in the house, Jit sweeps them out. Jit has seen a few more. I am much more alert when I get up at night, I turn on the lights rather then wander in the dark. We do not know where they came from. Si said that when they were working on the house they saw a mother spider. The spiders are large, but at least as clearly as I can discern, they are not poisonous or anything. Another experience.

I have seen a couple of new bug zapper devices shaped like tennis rackets. They use the same principle of a normal bug zapper, but they are in the shape of a tennis racket. You swing the racket at the bug or mosquito and then zap. Might be useful in Alaska. I can imagine some kind of sporting event, mosquito badminton or something like that.

The clouds are beautiful tonight, I did not take any pictures, but the cumulus clouds were very high and illuminated by the setting sun. There is a breeze and it is not too hot, sort of.

Just as an aside, and without details, this community, like any other, has alcohol, drugs, mental illness, HIV/AIDS and tragedy. I do not know of a human community that exists without problems and tragedy. None of this tragedy or sadness dominates community life.

I see a lot of evidence of alcohol usage and abuse in Thailand, at least by looking at severely bloodshot eyes. Thailand has one of the highest per capita alcohol consumption rate in Asia.

I finished two more Thai lessons today from the Rosetta Stone CD.