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We came home late from dropping my dad off at the airport and going grocery shopping (and getting Froot Loop our poodle dyed purple.) I went upstairs (our stairs are on the outside) and on the porch by the door there was a strange Thai man lying down. I yelped, turned on the porch light, and told Ken what was going on. I told him the man he couldn't do this, and he told me he knew the house owner. So I called the house owner and she talked to him on my cell-phone. She told him to leave. I wanted to call the police, but I'm not sure it would've done any good. The house-owner called his boss, he had previously worked on our house as a laborer. Kennedy talked to him and he admitted he had slept here before...not a comforting thought. I wonder if that is why things have been disappearing lately at our house? It was very disconcerting and we are still wondering what to think about it. Strange life we live here...

Buk Luk Purple 007 Originally uploaded by oceanicthai .

Buk Luk Purple 003 Originally uploaded by oceanicthai . Our cute purple puppy! Poppy worked and saved up her money to get him dyed purple at the Dog Spa in Phuket. We watched him get groomed and trimmed and they were gentle & careful with him. He got doggy treats, too. He's our littlest sweetie!

They hopped on a bus to Surat Thani, to get their train to Bangkok. I think one of the biggest blessings of their time here was at Kho Khaw Island. They seemed to really have made a neat connection with the pastor and the believers there, and were able to make a financial contribution from their church to the church/center there. It is a blessing for us, too, because Kennedy was able to spend time getting to know the pastor and his wife better, and our goals are essentially the same. This pastor is someone we are very interested in working with. The group also spent a few more hours at the orphanage on Sunday, doing another craft with the kids and having fun. The group also left me a craft project to do with the kids in my Sunday School class, so that will be great.

Poor kid, he is going to be okay, but he had diarrhea & was vomiting for hours. Thankfully he stopped & he's drinking rehydration liquids & keeping them down now. They think it was some oysters he ate. I'm so glad it wasn't one of the horrible bacterial infections that have been floating around Chiang Mai this cool season. We have heard story after story of entire conferences being the worst ever because most everyone got seriously ill. (It sure made our conference miserable.) The Chiang Mai hospitals have just been loaded for 3 months or so with people getting these highly contagious infections. Many people ended up being hospitalized for days for dehydration or pneumonia . As for the Manteca Boy, he's going to be just fine, and probably no one else will get it. Whew!

He got mad at his sister for locking him out of the room and kicked the door. Unfortunately the door was made out of glass panels and he kicked his foot through, slicing the bottom of it. At first there was just the sound of breaking glass, then nothing, then crying that started softly and built up to a frantic sobbing. Gee and I ran outside to investigate and Kennedy was carrying him down our outside stairs from the 2nd story, small blood puddles on the floor from the glass door to the stair landing. We had given the truck to the Manteca Team to drive themselves to the island so Kennedy could work on his Sunday sermon, so we had no transportation. Kennedy ran over to the house Dean is renting for Marcus and they graciously allowed us to use their vehicle. I didn't go with them to the hospital, I knew it wasn't going to be fun. Kennedy told me later how much he screamed and cried when they gave him a painkilling shot and cleaned the wound. He has 3 little black stiches and he h...

loading bodies in the trailers Originally uploaded by oceanicthai .