4 days ago we shifted from our fairy home in Earth Home Thailand to Pun Pun, an organic farm in Northern Thailand that has about 16 perminant habitants , many of whom are Thai and, at the moment about 6 volunteers. Pun Pun, Earth Home Thailand and Panya are all within walking distance of each other in the same village.
Mmm , I feel soo clean!
Boyd got the solar hot water heater going in our new homes' bath room and the whole family had a hot bath. Well the bath is quite small. So bits of the whole family were concurrently bathing in the hot bath at the same time :-).
I bathed off all the sweat and the smells of the local market that Tara and I visited tonight. We wandered through the whole seathing market of 500 people jammed into a tiny dirt road by a canal.. I recognized 2foods and bought them: Mangos and a sticky rice and banana that had been steamed in banana leaves. Tara and I ate something that was quite tasty and resembled chippies from home: deep fried locusts .Tara said that they were her favorite food from the market.
The children have adapted remarkably well to the changing food situation. Likely there is always rice and usually some egg on offer from the community kitchen. But the kids have already adopted tofu as their new favorite food . Boyd closely follows in the remarkable-adaption-to-food miracle. He has tried more new foods on the past week than in the last 5 years. The community: Pun Pun, is an seed-saving organic farm that supports and supplies vegetables and vegetarian recipes to its own vegetarian restaurants in the city of Chiang Mai. So the standard of cooking here is amazing :-)
So we are staying in an adobe home vacated by its family as they are away in Europe. We eat 3 cooked meals a day communally in a eating hall central to the farm. One parent works from 9 till 12 in the morning and the other from 3 till 5 in the afternoon and after lunch the whole family relaxes somewhere shady and cool. There is even real coffee at the café.
Life is good.
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