Surgery and Healing: Po's wife's surgery went well. Apparently, it was an amazing combination of laparoscopy, lasers and a plastic bag. She is on the mend and Po left last night to be with her. Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers.
Lawnmowers: The goat family was away for a bit, but they were back mowing the expansive front lawns at the wat (temple) in this ban (village) last week. It appeared they did a spotty job, because the cows were out the following day cleaning up after them.
Chicks: Down at the end of the block from the guesthouse there's a black mother hen and her darling gray, white and black speckled chicks. She parades around her domain, the chicks scurrying planets revolving around her.
That Luang: There is another major festival in Vientiane along the lines of the mega-celebration at the Mekong earlier this month. It goes for a week, culminating November 2. With the SEA (Southeast Asia) Games, a mini-Olympics for the ten countries in the region scheduled to begin here December 9, Laos has had quite the full dance card this year. The country is in the process of sprucing up and is especially hopeful the Games will prove an economic boon.
Linen Update: I have yet another hot pink ensemble on my bed. It is a snowflake pattern with the snowflakes made up of tiny blossoms in multiple shades of pink. It looks like it was intended to be geometric, but didn't turn out to be predictably so. Paired with the royal blue World Cup facsimile flags and soccer balls coverlet, who cares. Lucky me.
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Wish our dog ate grass like the goats and cows. Hayden has to cut it frequently, but it's not that big a grassy area, so it's OK. Pink sheets remind me of the pink flowered ones of our youth. Still have one set of single bed sheets, full of holes and stained and faded, but too fraught to toss.
ReplyDeleteChumango you sound like Mom stashing away those old sheets. Between the goats and the cows and the chicks, maybe you need to teach the class "Old McDonald's Farm?" Vientiane sounds like Party City. Don't stay out too late. Remember what Dad always said, "Nothing good ever happens after midnight!"
ReplyDeleteChicks and goats appear as a different visual every day. These are life events that we may see when moving away from everyday driving.
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