Earth Home Thailand

Now that we have been in the area  for 6 weeks, I am beginning to realize how super special this place is. The gardens and pathways and houses are immaculate. Tree stumps tastefully decorate each corner and Pi Tong Bi is great combination of passion for her country and organic possibilities, influence and great sense of humour.

Playmates

Nada turned into the kids special friend and had a gorgeous way of saying " Play wid me plees!" That turned into their catch phrase....... As well as her sweet way of saying "passon frooot".

Nada, Krit and Sheena.

Hot pools Trip to Chaing Dao

Blue water pipe interconnected concrete troughs with the steamy sulphurous waters that attracted bright yellow butterflies. We cooled off in the small stream below us and  as we stared into the tree branches above , could see huge black and cobalt blue butterflies feeding on the blossoms above ... Soo beautiful

Tara analysed the intake and outflow of each trough carefully to calculate the temperature of each one and is pictured here explaining to Bush why she wouldn't get in.

Luke padded up the stream and down, into and out of the tubs and up and down over the small rapid. Then he pitched into a water fight with Dao and Boyd :-)

Thai massage healer

I had a sore neck and a local said call this number, ask to be picked up, and someone will pick you up by Chiang Mai main gate McDonald's. He is good and a healer.

So when I was next in Chiang Mai I called 0869243210 and a guy answered and I asked for massage and to pick me up.

I under stood the time but couldn't get the lacation from his broken English.

So I turned up at the McDonald's at the gate and sure enough a lady picked me up who spoke zero English.

We drove out towards the airport to her home and sure enough a blind guy with a full on room for massage good to go.

After 5 mins my neck was vastly improved but he spent the next 1.5 hr's working through my whole body.

His name is Ajarn Sinchai Sukparsert and a rough picture below.

Highly recommended experience. I went twice, spoke to an Australian and he had been going every so often for 10 years when needed.

Happy days

Thus is Dao. This is one happy man climbing around in a mango tree  pruning it with a machette...... In a skirt :-)

Tara Luke and Boyd playing on the mango tree stump that had been brought down by swinging it wildly  till its rotten base  gradually gave way.

Playing with termites...... This has fast become a favorite pastime. Termites have a lot going for them... They make interesting catacombe homes from mud that crumble to reveal a myriad of interesting rooms... They scuttle furiously to and fro with interesting yellow or white bodies. They form long tunnels to destination tasty wood and the tunnels can be crumbled under interested fingers and then within hours the termites have industriously reformed them...... and.... For a large part they tolerate all this without biting ! :-).

A bees nest. It is aprox  1m long on the branch of the mango tree.The bees performed a sinister Mexican wave at a passing dragon fly. We didn't get close.

Tara eats some wild honey . Jon Dow, a young Thai man about 18yrs  with no English, but wheilds a machette through logs the width of my arm like knife through butter....found a tiny bees nest. With perhaps a hundred cells. He brushed off the tiny bees and sucked at the honey, then offered it to Nang and myself and Bush.. Then I took the rest home for Tara and Luke.