Thread: Japanese House

Good on you OM....you are living a good life.

Meow, Moussae, Katchins, Lisu, Loa, Karen, Thaiai (Q'muang),Aka.

Correction, Q'Muang are Thais

The roof is completed.

Now, I'll have to pay the contractor and his workers

I think it looks good, simple and efficient.

All we have to do now, is get the floor plan done!

The rice paddies are plowed, and water goes in to kill the weeds, for 2 weeks.

So, this was done also for my workers, note the paddies behind the tree line that marks the limit of my land and the rais that they rent.
They now have the time to come and finish the steel structure of the small roof

and the work to prevent erosion. There will be more photos before we leave.

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I think it looks good, simple and efficient.

Yep! I'd almost want to be a pig and stay that luxurious, have that view...

Thinking of more hill tribes.... Hmong, Lahu, Mien, Dara-ang (Palong), Mlabri...

Old Monkey, have fun In France and back home, and keep us up to date when you're back!

We could say step by step

The space between the sidewalk and the wall will be filled with soil and will be used to grow mostly flowers.

I want to plant 4 coconut trees below to provide a bit of shade to the pool. There will be concrete poured there, on each side of the steps in the middle, so, I thought it would be possible for the coconut trees to grow there if I put half tires to provide a hole in the concrete, dig afterward a good metre, refill with compost, rough sand and salt, like on a beach. I remember islands in Bahamas with beaches limited with coconut trees, growing naturally after having floated there, in sand and salt!
I have planted coconut tree plants 5-6 years ago, beside the water, and they stayed at the same size, did not grow! Will see!

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

I think it looks good, simple and efficient.

Yep! I'd almost want to be a pig and stay that luxurious, have that view...

Thinking of more hill tribes.... Hmong, Lahu, Mien, Dara-ang (Palong), Mlabri...

Old Monkey, have fun In France and back home, and keep us up to date when you're back!

Yes thank you, Gipsy, do those live in numbers in Thailand also? Lahu and Hmong, yes maybe, but the others?

Moussae is another name for Lahu, my wife dixit.

And the ditch goes on...

Towards the lamiai grove.

Going under the trees

Two more days of work before completion, it's a promise! Before we go...

After the people, this is what I will miss the most! A daily 35 or 70 km ride, perfect relaxation, beauty full road, no bugs, no helmet, freedom, power.

Here is a hole for one of the 4 coconut trees, a dog came and signed...

A second hole, 4 m stairs...

5 steps, I hope easy to use.

Left side, with a tie to hold the wall

Detail of the tie, steel provides tension strenght, cement will give pression strenght.

The swimming pool, filter zone in front.

View from the East, the house and the pool.


View of the terracement works, from the North side of the pool

Nice silhouette of the roof

View from the West.
I hope to see the tiles before we go.

From the North, sorry!

Originally Posted by Old Monkey

but the others?

Can't find any update on actual Mien population in Thailand; I've seen quite a few big groups at hill tribe festivals. I think the rest went to the USA.

Dara-ang (Pa-long) number around 7500 people, mainly near Chiang Mai, Chiang Dao and Chiang Rai.

Mlabri is not a big group, only 500 or so to be found, near Nan and Prae.

Never heard the word "Mousseau"... googled it, but the only reference that came up is your thread!

Thanks for the response to my earlier post and the information on the various peoples that it generated from all contributors.

I really enjoyed reading your thread and that of Ootai about house building in outback (Oz term for outer provinces). Its kind of whetted my appetite for doing something myself. I have two sons married to thai girls and one comes from a farm out of Utai Thani. I have visited the family farm and I had a dream that I would like to have something to go to and spend quiet rustic times when I get tired of Pattaya and BKK. Maybe one day, I will have my own thread.....

Originally Posted by Gipsy

Never heard the word "Mousseau"... googled it, but the only reference that came up is your thread!

Try Muser

Moussae? Synonimous with Lahu

Avoided a drama this morning. Walking in the forest around the farm, the last time this year, I was suddenly attacked by enraged wasps more than one inch long! I got hit on the neck and upper back 11 times in one second.
I jumped down and fell 4-5 feet on my knees, I was screaming with the pain, and running.
Took off my Tshirt and cold showered.

Then, I took from my pharmacy Apis 30 ch in homeopathy, the pain stopped completly, at the second.
My wife and family wanted me to see a doctor right away, but I took Arnica 5ch for the chock and all is right. No swelling after 10 minutes.

I was a bee keeper for 17 years in a past life, and I had to cope with accidents like that, once with 36 stings on the throat, solved the same way.
Every family should have these 2 homeopathic remedy in an emergency kit, it could very well save a child's life, where wasps stings or bee's could put a child in chock, or choke an adult at throat level.

At the same time, the house is being built, the grass must be cut

Notice the lamiais in the foreground, wish I could taste them, I'm never there when they are ripe!
The surface is important, it takes a man two weeks to go around

And the cement ditch arrives finally at its destination : the rice paddies. The rice is growing nicely, it will be transplanted at the same time as the leveling of the paddies

Here is the master of this 400 metres work, our oldest and most faithful employee.

The last stretch is being rendered

In the rice paddies, the walls must be redone for this year

Rendering the walls

Note the work in front of the man

Going back to the house, some walls are going up

Between the kitchen and the bathroom, where all the water conduits will be

The boss wanted a souvenir of her new haircut and to honor our best people

This member of the Thaiai team is so nice and intelligent, I wish I could bring him in my luggage!

Bathroom side

Head master with his partner. His walls are always straight, his floors too