Purple Room
Purple Room Originally uploaded by oceanicthai
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Baby Cobras
Jasper and our dog Froot Loop found a juvenile cobra just outside our front door 5 minutes ago. Kennedy found one 2, 3 weeks ago, and another was found in our yard last week. Which means a clutch of eggs has hatched nearby and we've got a cobra snake problem. Sigh. My stomach feels like jiggly jelly. The cobra we just saw slid down a drainpipe. Oh Lord have mercy....
Hands-On Homeschooling
Reticulated Python Pics, Bang Sak 003 Originally uploaded by oceanicthai The day our co-workers skinned and butchered the python was a "just-next-door" field trip for Poppy and Jasper. They managed to see the entire process and not get sick...unlike me. Poppy ate some snake for lunch, Jasper ate some of the chickens the snake had killed, and I'm still unable to make myself try the snake. Go, kids, go!
Reticulated Python Pics, Bang Sak
Reticulated Python Pics, Bang Sak 2 Originally uploaded by oceanicthai Not a Burmese, but a Reticulated Python...a juvenile. This is the longest recorded snake known. Poppy ate some for lunch yesterday, and Jasper ate some of the chicken that Tanom prepared from the hens that the snake killed. Life is an adventure.
Burmese Python-Snake of the Month
We are going to eat it for lunch today. The neighbor on the hill found the snake squeezing 3 of his chickens and killed it. After he killed it he called Tanom to come get the dead snake and chickens. Today Len and Gi are skinning, gutting and roasting the big snake. Tanom is doing the chickens. Poppy and Jasper have been watching the whole thing...great educational opportunity for them. I have been watching, too, until my stomach can't take it anymore and I have to run home. Poppy is the bravest of us all. "I'm going to eat some of that snake!" I'll upload a picture later.
Southern Thailand map
Southern Thailand map Originally uploaded by oceanicthai Map of our ministry area. We live on the West coast, on the Andaman Sea, just above the big island dropping off in the middle like a tear-drop...that is Phuket.