Fun, Funky Birthday Party

• Funky Town by Phone Phoummithone

I had to work late yesterday, and didn’t think I’d make it to my co-worker’s son birthday party.  Then the birthday boy stopped by and personally invited me, twice he reminded me “…don’t forget, it starts at 6:30 tonight.”

It rained on the way there, the place was starting to get busy with kids running around, and her family gathered near the entrance and I saw a man walking over to the Mechanical Bull, I asked my co-worker if he were her cousin, she said, “Who, him?  He’s my brother!”  She said that I could blog about him, see how long he’d last on this “Mechanical Bull”…only a few second.

After he found out what  I was going to do with the photos, he looked at me and said, “You’re crazy!”  I told him, “Hey, I’m not the one on the Mechanical Bull and being airborne.”  He showed me his injury, bruises and scratches, thanks for the good laugh, closeup image, and to think that I’m the crazy one .

The birthday boy saying grace before meals.

Cake time, Happy Birthday little man.

Fall Garden

• What about now by Chris Daughtry

It has been raining a lot lately, very gloomy and things seem very depressing no matter where you turn. As for most businesses in our area, they’re thriving, many are focusing on cost cutting rather than revenue generating since it’s a hopeless situation to bring in more business.  It’s riding out the tough times, number crunching for many that work in the Accounting department, having nightmares about cash flow.  It used to be that if you rubbed shoulder with the owner, then you have a job security, but not anymore, it’s most definitely you earn your keep these days.  One thing that I’ve seen and learned, you don’t take your personal problems to work, and you don’t take work home, the two just don’t mix, Max knows what I’m talking about.

It has been a while since I last posted about my garden, the Summer just flew by and now we’re heading for the Fall season. I’ve decided to plant some Fall vegetables, mainly because I want to expand my garden, and have more planting space in the Spring, but I still have a lot more work to do.

Lee is putting her little touch in “her” garden, her latest additions to the garden were the mushroom and birdbath, and her job is to make sure there’s clean water in the birdbath daily.

Fifth Week of Rice Harvest

• The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!(To Everything There is a Season)

Seeing this car still amazed me that she walked away with a dislocated foot, not even broken.  I saw my co-worker today and her daughter is home resting.  I told her that her daughter is very lucky, but my co-worker said that she feels that she is the lucky one, in a sense she is right, in fact the whole family are very lucky.  I found out earlier that she was the only one in the car.

I also feel lucky today, felt like I hit the jackpot! I can’t wait to give this a try.

This made me think of Laos, this is used by the locals to separate the rice grains from the shells

Just like back home, spreading out the rice crops or coffee crops to dry in the sun.

Fourth Week of Rice Harvest

• Wind of Change by Scorpions

The weather has gotten a lot cooler this week, especially early in the morning and I’ve to wear a light jacket now before leaving the house, I do missed the hot summer weather already.  But today is a nice day, too nice to be stuck inside working, but not much I can do.

I stopped by the Rice Paddy today after work, but had noticed this car several days back, I thought to myself then that who ever drove this car couldn’t have survived.

The driver was her daughter, believe it or not she was okay and only has a broken foot.  The accident happened last Saturday around 3 in the afternoon, this goes to show that accident can happen to any of us, so drive safely.

This year has not been very steady for this rice paddy, the cold weather in the spring had lingered a lot longer, so the planting got pushed back several weeks. They’ve been busy harvesting their rice crops this week, at one point I saw 3 ladies out there in the rice field, and most of the front and back paddies are done.

These Kao Kom or purple sticky rice don’t look so good, and I noticed that the water is drying up also.  There goes my chance of purchasing Kao Kom from them.

The Road Less Traveled

• Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce

Road Less Traveled photo by ankur23

Photo source.

My three year anniversary of blogging is coming up, November 25, 2009, and by then I hope to reach my goal of 1,000,000 hits and hopefully I’ll make it in 3 months.  There is so much to blog about these days, and I realized that I’ve a skill that I always take for granted, being able to read Thai language allows me to translate numerous articles, one of my favorites being ghost story, and there are so much more out there.  But instead of taking the wide path, I chose a narrower path, topics that I’m more familiar with, perhaps the road less traveled by many bloggers, but yet it has been very rewarding to me.

I’ve to say that I take “the middle way” lifestyle, as one of the Buddhists that take the ‘middle road’ in life, one of no extremes, neither too passive nor aggressive.  At the beginning of my blogging, I seemed to blog by myself, but that didn’t deter me from blogging and now things are looking much better, and I want to thank my readers that read my blog on a regular basis, or you might be one that tune in every once in a while or only read from my feed, thank you for walking down this road with me, even if it’s only for a brief moment.

My current Stats is 901,768 hits, busiest day was Monday May 4, 2009 with 2,661 hits, I’ve 767 Posts thus far and 3,921 comments.  I’ll leave my stats (auto generates by WordPress) visible on the sidebar for everyone to see if I’d reach my goal of 1,000,000 hits by November 25, 2009.