Wat Prathat Fair now open

Even though the official dates of the Fair are January 2-8, and there's still plenty of work to be done,
many of the vendors are open for business

Expect traffic congestion.

The Nine Days of New Years

A four day public holiday for the new year started Saturday, December 31, 2011.
Officially the holidays will end Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
Banks should reopen Wednesday, January 4
Holiday road checks are in place through January 5

Expect many buses to be at capacity after the holidays, as revelers prepare to return to work.

Mosquito Wars

I'm surrounded by vacant land with standing water.
Over the past week there has been a noticeable increase of mosquitoes.

For the moment I have a daily morning ritual to smoke them out from behind my water tanks.

It gets quite noisy as birds swoop in on the meal of escaping mosquitoes