Typical Saturday

Thought you might like to see what a typical Saturday looks like in Chiang Mai.  With us working all week and not getting home until after dark, well you know what has to be done!  The grass in the picture is not a good representation of the yard.  It is green, not brown and it was time for it to be cut.


This is how I cut the grass at the house.  The yard is not real large so it takes about an hour or two with all of the plants around the fence, especially in the front!



 With a park directly across the street from us, children are always playing, swinging, laughing and running.  It is so refreshing to hear their laughter rather than traffic noise.

These three have captured our hearts since they are about our Ava's age.  When Ava comes to visit she will have friends to run, laugh and play with in the neighborhood

I though rainy season was about over.  This picture shows that I might be mistaken.  This gives some indication as to the amount of rain that was falling.  This shower lasted about 30 minutes and then it cooled off and was very pleasant.  Of course this all happened AFTER the grass cutting was completed and I was enjoying some relaxation on the front porch.

Water Has Receeded

Thank you all for praying during our recent flooding.  We have seen many things in our time here but that is one that we care to NOT see again.  We did have an opportunity to minister to victims of the waters by means of providing spiritual and physical food.  We were able to pray with some and encourage them that life would return to normal soon.  Sure enough, the rains have stopped and the river has lowered is angry level and life in Chiang Mai is almost back to 'normal'. (There are many concepts of normal here).  I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

This was out trip out to the meeting point for distribution

Preparing the Spiritual/Physical Food for victims 

Ditch is about 7 Feet higher than normal.  On our way!! 

 

This is a taxi that is coming up the street where the Night Market usually is. 

Of course children will have fun in the water, even with a plastic tub.  Wanna ride?

You can imagine the amount of 'stuff' that is in this water!  We were told if we had continual exposure to the water that we should take an antibiotic since disease is a major concern.  Fortunately, Donna and I were in water only knee deep and only for a couple of hours.  We had no scratches or wounds on our legs so we washed Safeguard and we were OK.  Of course the Master Physician was part of our team !!