I grew up with beans on toast for breakfast, lunch or tea and it's my breakfast dish in Thailand. The day can throw what it likes at me as long as I've had beans for breakfast! So when the wife decided that we should move into the tree-house I was okay with the idea, just as long as we could have beans on toast...
...It's not quite a tree-house, just my affectionate name for it, since it was made from the trees we cut down over Christmas to make way for our new house.
house_4.jpg
The plot is about 3 rai (just over an acre) and we needed to have a house to get electricity to build the main house. We put in some temporary poles to get the power (~200m away) and have dug a bore hole for water so no problem with mod-cons...
house_am_1.jpg
The first week was pretty hot and we spent the nights sleeping on the balcony...awakening to the cacophony of cicadas providing the dawn chorus...and a very sleepy sun rising in the mist, taking a good hour or two to burn through and provide some sizzling hot days. The area planned for my veg plot was being used as a driveway and drastic action was needed to stop this becoming the norm. Furthermore, the neighbours' cows had easy access to anything we planted.
fence_posts.jpg
A fence was needed to keep these inquisitive creatures at bay...
cows.jpg
I had a feeling it was going to be a busy couple of weeks and the butterfly photos were going to come a little way down the to-do list.
...It's not quite a tree-house, just my affectionate name for it, since it was made from the trees we cut down over Christmas to make way for our new house.
house_4.jpg
The plot is about 3 rai (just over an acre) and we needed to have a house to get electricity to build the main house. We put in some temporary poles to get the power (~200m away) and have dug a bore hole for water so no problem with mod-cons...
house_am_1.jpg
The first week was pretty hot and we spent the nights sleeping on the balcony...awakening to the cacophony of cicadas providing the dawn chorus...and a very sleepy sun rising in the mist, taking a good hour or two to burn through and provide some sizzling hot days. The area planned for my veg plot was being used as a driveway and drastic action was needed to stop this becoming the norm. Furthermore, the neighbours' cows had easy access to anything we planted.
fence_posts.jpg
A fence was needed to keep these inquisitive creatures at bay...
cows.jpg
I had a feeling it was going to be a busy couple of weeks and the butterfly photos were going to come a little way down the to-do list.
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