Life in Tropical Thailand

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Soda from Juice

Tools to help with the making of soda from juice. The first pvc bottle holder is for assistance to screw off cap as the bottle has expanded from the pressure of carbon dioxide aka CO2, and it will sometime fizz over the top like when popping the cork from a champaine bottle, the second pvc bottle holder is for the small 220ml bottle that we pour the soda into, the last pvc holder is for the 1.5 liter bottle of juice and the 2 days fermentation proccess, the black cover has two purposes one to block sunlight and the other is if the water bottle cap shoots off unexpectantly the mess is contained.
Making soda from Juice
Making soda from Juice

Amaranth Flowering Update

These Amaranth are very beautiful in so many ways, it's really amazing
Amaranth Flowering Update

Amaranth are a really amazing plant like spinach and way more nutricious and very delicious
amaranth flowering

Prickly Weeds

Here's the pile of prickly weeds, I thought once I have the majority of them picked I'd be able to rest, nope they keep on growing super fast, it's like a never ending battle against those weeds. Victory is futile!!
pricklyweeds
pricklyweeds2


Prickly-Weeds
Costing just shy of $1 these comfortable welding glove fit perfect and work better than expected at pulling out those nasty pickly weeds, and they save your hands from lots of pokes and scrapes...
Welding Gloves

Water System

Another Update

I added a 4 way split hub to the mix and we are starting to plant the rice farm, so the need for 2 cow waters is no longer needed, I also now have a 60 meter hose for the plants out on the entrance way, so the blue hose goes to the entrance way, green hose goes to the front of the house, one of the white hoses is for the cow water and the other is for the plants at the rear of the house.
Water System

Update

Here I added the quick connectors to the hoses to make it even easier, every evening around 5 pm I top off the cows water, now it's very simple and easy
Water System Update

To make things easier and well just so I can be lazy I rigged up a water system we can fill both waters trophs for the cows without even putting on our shoes
Water System

Weed Wacker with Wheels

These wheels make cutting the burs down easy, we added a ziptie slidable to activate the trigger adding great ease to the job.
weed cutter with wheels

5555 kms

haahaahaahaa
5555kms

Beans

So Beautiful
Beans

Salmon Belly


Weighed into 350 gram bags and frozen salmon belly

Bathroom Tiles

Cleaning with wire pad, it takes away the glossy appearance and no chemicals
bathroom tiles
bathroom tiles

Cucumber

Wow Wow Wow
cucumber

Giant Squash

I'm sure happy we are growing our own food this is awesome
squash

Lettuce

Good for the salads
lettuce

Onions

Yummy
onoin

Hi Birdy

There are so many birds out here it's crazy, these ones love talking to me, sometimes.

Scary Dog

Usually when I clap or yell dogs run away, not this one he just looks at me and growls, when I got out the broom he starts barking at me, just eat then and go dog!!
Scary Dog
Scary Dog

Loading & Moving Dirt into entrance

There is tons of dirt!!

Lunch Time

Pui's Lunch, yummy
Me working on device

Rubber Tree Lake

This is the lake that the rubber tree farm looks over

Golden Berry Plant Update

They are coming alomg nicely, they seem to not enjoy full sun like 8-12 hours a day,
Golden Berry Plant Update
below are pictures of golden berry plants from a while back

Golden Berry Plant


Golden Berry Plant 2

Golden Berry Plant

This is one of many of our Golden Berry Plants
Golden Berry Plant

Rain Rain, Rain all day

Very hot and wet here in thailand, thinking about the time in bonnyville at the chinese restraunt, you remember dad, 55555

Fertilizer preparation

Adding ingredients to make liquid fertilizer
Fertilizer Preparation
I used the PVC Parts from this to make the Drinking water shelf below

PVC Drinking Water Shelf

You can pretty much make anything you can dream up with PVC if you have the right fittings
Drinking Water Shelf

PVC Fertilizer Bottle Holder

Each of the 5 units has 4 sections holding 22 bottles per section totaling 440 bottles of liquid homemade organic fertilizer
PVC Fertilizer Bottle Holder

Amaranth

Amaranth is like spinach but way more healthy and it grows like crazy like 5 feet tall, and delicious boiled/steamed
amaranth

First Squash of the year

Delicious - In Thai Language the word for squash is fukiou(fuk-kee-ow like some one pinched you)
squash

First Guava in three years

It takes a guava tree three years before it will produce any fruit, well today was our lucky day, and was it ever delicious
First Guava

Cucumbers from the garden

First cucumbers of the year and they are delicious
Cucumbers Ready to eat

Growing Super Fast

Wow it's really amazing to see the speed they grow very beautiful
Running Flowers

Running Flowers

Running Flowers

Fertilizer Bottle Holder

I started building things out of PVC, it super easy and super fun, you get to create your own things, it's really amazing, I'm so excited I forget to eat many times!

Purple Pea Plant

This purple pea plant is growing like a weed
purple peas

Pineapple and Custard-apple

Fruit from the Banana Garden
pineapple and custardapple

Compost Bin

I erected this when I first arrived here about 4 months ago, and I filled it to the top many times, magickly it automatically disappears. Who knows where all the weeds and cow shit goes. It will remain a mystery.
compost bin

Juice Beer

I finished the Strawberry Beer and it is by far the most delicious
Strawberry Beer
The Ginger Starter is the active and alive ingredient, 1/8 cup mixed with 1 liter juice, it's the easiest of all to make, to start off 2 cups water 1 tbs sugar 1 tbs cubed ginger, repeat the sugar and ginger 5 days then reduce to 1 tbs each once a week, add water as needed.
Ginger Bug
Juice Beer Fermenting (Carrot, Passion Fruit)
Now I am making Strawberry
Juice Beer

South Side of the Entrance

I cut down all the weeds around the fence and layed black fabric I'll take a picture of the new look soon
South Side of the Entrance
And after I chopped all the weeds and layed black barrier
South Side of the Entrance
and from the other side of the fence looking at the rear end
South Side of the Entrance
We added some white running flowers to make it more beautiful
Running Flowers
and some red ones
Running Flowers
and pink ones
Running Flowers
and here is the sweet basil
Running Flowers

Bath Tub

With my mom's encouragement I finally finished cleaning the tub below are the before and after pictures, using only a dull knife and a wire pad (the kind used to scrub steel pots and pans and stove)
bath tub
bath tub
bath tub

Harvest Ant Eggs

Harvest Ant eggs are very popular among Thais, they add them to soup, great source of protein. To collect the eggs they use a long bamboo stick with a bag on the end then go tree by tree, the ants make nests in the leaves it makes sort of a oblong kind of sphere and they store their eggs in there, then Mr. Chef comes along and destroys the house built of leaves and the eggs fall into the bag, later that day into the soup the eggs go.
Yummy
Harvest Ant Eggs

Purple Peas

These purple peas turn green after cooked

Purple Toilet

Mamas Cute Purple Toilet

Young Cows

Young Cows just like teenagers mischeivious and up to no good, these little bastards went on the road and Sister chased them back in the field only to go back on the road, bad cows!

Cows

Here's one of our cows
Cow

This is our dog Daun he howls at night like a warewolf sometime all the dogs in the neighborhood join in

Red Oak Lettuce

Wow Wow Wow look at it grow
Red Oak Lettuce

Mint

At the market there is never any mint, luckily our neighbor gave us some mint roots, now they are growing super nice
Mint

Passion Fruit

Growing superfast
Passion Fruit
Passion Fruit

Pineapple

Yummy fresh Pineapple
Pineapple

Aloe Vera

all these aloe vera came from that one small white pot
Aloevera

Mini Banana

This mini banana reminded me of Marty, long and skinny, ask Dad about that one
Mini Banana