No Halloween here. It's straight into Christmas for us.

Here's the Christmas stuff for sale at MR D.I.Y. in Central Plaza on 20221016. No Halloween here. Good. That Halloween candy is hazardous to one's health.

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Sunset after the rainy season

Now that the rainy season has ended, we actually have sunsets once again. I quite like it.

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Working in the garden

The rainy season has officially ended. They even had a holiday to mark the occasion: วันออกพรรษา / Wan Ok Phansa. (See the Wikipedia entry for Vassa to learn much more.)

So it's time to plant crops. As of this evening, we now have two raised bed gardens. Not too much damage to my hand. Just one big blister that should heal within a week or two.

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All I had to do was turn around, but nooooooo...

So I'm out on a pleasure ride, the first of the season now that it's possible to be outside. I come up on a huge pool of water, and like a moron I blindly follow the cars in front of me, fording the water at a depth of at least 15 cm, up to the bottom and sides of my boots. I won't claim that the exhaust got submerged, but I'm pretty sure the bottom of it got plenty wet, as did the chain and the bottom of the engine.

I had no appointment to get to. I had no destination. All I would have had to do is simply turn around. But nope. Still a dumbass...

To Yamaha's credit, the bike still starts without issue and appears to be running normally. I had to spend a day cleaning the bike, including a total chain cleaning and lubrication. We are not in California anymore. A bike's life is hard here.

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This little guy scared me a bit...

I reached into the tool cabinet to grab something, and I almost got a handful of frog. He was not at all eager to let go of that paper towel roll.

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Green

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The White Elephant of Saraburi

ช้างเผือกที่สระบุรี

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Chronicler of sunsets? A lazy one if so...

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Cattle Drive

Returning from my first motorcycle ride of the season, I happened across a cattle drive just outside the gate of our housing complex. I saw at least 30 head of cattle, and there could have been many more as they were stretched out in a very long column, enthusiastically grazing their way up a flooded canal road.

Cattle drive is a misnomer. There were no cowboys. No horses. Just one cattle farmer guy walking at the head of the column and relying on some kind of honor system for the stragglers to keep moving forward--which they eventually did.

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Better than a drought...

By pure dumb luck, the downpour didn't start until just after I finished my short bicycle ride around the housing complex.

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There will be more downpours before this 2022 rainy season comes to an end.

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