Prevention

Seeing Helicopters in this area most likely indicates a visit of a Government V.I.P.
There is no commercial helicopter service in the area that I am aware of.

Photo taken from Welcome Bar front porch, June 9

I was intrigued and took the quick trip to the Provincial Government Buildings. 

By the time I arrived, V.I.P.'s had already departed

What surprised me was the barbed wire inside the Government complex.
This is the area used during the annual Wax Castle Festival as a fair ground

Car traffic on the main road leading through the complex had been detoured. I use this road occasionally on my way to go shopping.

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Mobile Mosquito Eradication

Had to make a stop on my way home, till the air was clear.

Lucky I had a can of Chang with me while sitting alongside the road.

Really wonder how effective this sort of spraying is.

Butterflies did not seem to be bothered by the spray.

In previous years people with backpack sprayers used to come around and aim the spray at all the most likely spots, especially sewers.

The sprayer looks fairly new, but the truck, that's another story.

SakonFC preparing for the Surin Challenge

In a previous game on April 3 at Surin, the game ended in a 3 - 3 draw.
Now with recent player additions and with home court advantage, this should be an exiting game.
Let's hope both teams can avoid my comment of the April 3 game: Who threw the first punch?

Joey went to see one of the teams daily training sessions and brought back these pictures.

Motorcycle For Sale

Inquire at the Welcome Bar

Who Do You Trust

US Embassy Bangkok:  Warden Message: Travel Warning Canceled, State of Emergency Remains

British Embassy:  Exercise Caution

Australian Embassy:  We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in Thailand due to the high threat of terrorist attack and the possibility of further violent civil unrest.

Miss Tourism Intercontinental - 4th Runner Up : Thailand

This one should be exciting

Sakon FC hosts Surin FC,  Sunday May 12.

Recent STV  video by Zintiara

Watch the guy in the white shirt, 17 seconds into the video.

His facial expression is priceless

I had better hide my cigarrettes

Another Tabaco Addict  in the house. And he doesn't require matches,

Be security concious before you go to sleep

Like anywhere in the world, when unemployment drops, crime tends to  increase.
Yesterday the owner of the apartment building across the street from me alerted us of a night time theft.
Gasoline was siphoned from the motorcycles parked in front of the building, laundry hanging outdoors was taken.

Neighborhood dogs, including mine, where barking at 3 a.m.  I saw four young men walking toward the apartment building.  I concluded wrongly that they were visiting a resident, and ignored them.
We lock our front gate nightly. Neighborhood barking dogs frequently awaken me.
If you do have dogs, beware of poisoning.
Just a few years ago a number of dogs were poisoned in a nearby neighborhood on a night when burglaries also occurred.
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