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I was greeted by this little guy again, never did catch his name, you know what they say about small dog, it’s all bark and no bite.
It has been two weeks since I last posted about my Hmong neighbor’s rice paddy, and the rice plants have gotten a lot taller.
The weather has been real nice in the last week or so, but not ideal for rice paddy since they need lots of water. This paddy sits at the bottom of a hill, and when it rains, it gets the benefit of the rain water. No rain means that they’ve to put water in the paddy daily.
I’m not sure what kind of insect this is, there are several that I saw. I finally found the name, it’s called rice brown plant hopper, not a good sign for paddy owner since they can do serious damage to the paddy.
Image below is photographed by William M. Brown Jr of Damage to a rice field in South Korea caused by the brown plant hopper.
The dragonflies hovering over the rice paddy.
As I was heading home, I ran into Hawk. I once posted about his Ghost Rider Dune Buggie, and I can’t say it’s a small world, but definitely a small town.
Look at that thing go.
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June 27, 2009 at 3:20 am
Cambree
I remember that little guy – such a cute dog. He reminds me of my neighbor’s dog too. A smart little dog that is a miniature pinscher and chihuahua mix.
Looks like a nice day in your part of the states. The rice field looks nice and green. But too bad for the rice brown plant hopper invasion.
June 27, 2009 at 3:49 am
Nye
Cambree, Lee wants one like that but I’m afraid that Max might swallow him whole.
That’s what I told her, but actually it’d be too much work for me, Lol, Max is a lot of work already.
I only saw a few at my neighbor’s paddy so I think they’re okay, but to do that much damage, I think there must be thousands of them. Asian people eat grasshoppers, but I don’t know if the brown plant hoppers are eatable.
June 27, 2009 at 4:07 pm
shadow
Nye, where do you live?
June 27, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Nye
shadow, I live in North Carolina near the foothill area, I’ve lived here for over 10 years now.
June 27, 2009 at 4:55 pm
giiid
I wonder how many kg of rice this rice paddy contain, do you have any idea about that? Is it rice for one family, one year…or?
June 27, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Nye
Hi giiid, it’s a total of 3 paddies, one for each family and they’re relatives. I think it’s enough to last them a year, but my co-worker expressed that her kids don’t like them as much as the store bought kind, they’ve a better aroma.
June 28, 2009 at 3:15 pm
lady0fdarkness
I love dragon flies. they’re so unique lookingi. I wish I had a professional camera!!
July 2, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Nye
Hi lady0fdarkness, mine is not a professional camera, just then lens is, but I’m very happy with mine and the quality of the images, it’s great when you have a family get together, the images are very clear, it’s priceless imo.
June 29, 2009 at 1:24 pm
seeharhed
Nye,
Nice pictures as always. Are those “Pa Cew” on 3rd picture? Het Moke Pa Cew Kin sounds good right about now.. hahahhahah The rice are looking good and healthy. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Oh!! I finally finished my garden box this past weekend. I should post some picture and have you comment on it.
July 2, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Nye
Hi seeharhed, sorry for the late reply, I’m on vacation this week. The Third picture is the water pipe that runs to the paddy. The water evaporate and drying up everyday especially when there is no rain like this, so they’ve to fill it up little everyday.
Congrats on the garden box, I’d love to see it, do you’ve a blog?
July 6, 2009 at 3:03 pm
seeharhed
Thanks Nye.. I was on vacation last week also. I had some friends from NC visited me and I was a tour guide for most of the week.
No!!! I don’t blog but I like to comments on other people blogs. hahhahha:-)
July 6, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Nye
seeharhed, kind of hard to comment without seeing pictures.
I never thought that you were a blogger type of guy, but more like a forum type of guy.
July 3, 2009 at 11:18 am
mozemoua
and after all this time i still haven’t found the time to run to my cousin’s rice patty and post them up! geeze, vacation really got me good. eheh
July 6, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Nye
mozemoua, your cousin’s paddy is out of the way, maybe you’ll get to visit them when the rice come out, hopefully it’d be about the same time as my neighbor’s rice paddy.
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