Our friends in Krabi

These are our good friends and benefactors in Krabi, Athan and Sakorn. Its thanks to them and their generosity that we were able to have our new home here in Thailand. We met Athan on the tennis court, where you will still find him most of the time, over 25 years ago when we were living in our first home, a condo in Falls Church. Athan, a U.S. citizen now, is from Krabi but moved to the U.S. when he was a teenager. Just a couple years after we met, his first wife died unexpectedly and he later remarried Sakorn, also from Krabi. She is an attorney by education and training and he is a C.P.A. like me. You will be hearing a lot more about them since we live next to each other now, and more importantly, we can't do anything without them. They drive us around (we don't have a license or car here yet), they order food for us (they know the best places to eat and the best dishes), they translate for us, they are teaching us the Thai language, they do just about everything except breathe for us right now. Hopefully, it won't be that way forever.

It is still extremely dry and hot here with no rain since we arrived and none for some time before that. This is unusual but not unheard of here. This is the dry season but its been more dry than normal. Needless to say, we are all praying for rain since we have about 8 acres of land with lots of new plants and flowers that need watering twice a day. We have a well, but we have to pump the water out into buckets that then hauled them to the plants by hand. I'm developing some nice forearms and biceps in the process so there are some side benefits. Dusty, on the other hand, could care less about big biceps and is happy that there are less snakes around when it is this dry.