Thread: Building a house in Nakhom Pathom

Originally Posted by stevefarang

Holy Crap !!! Are those in Thailand ?? Yikes !!!

Originally Posted by patsycat

Well, just one or two of the little guy.

Yup. On my site. This "little guy" had been killed by the crew. But must not be good eat'n.

I was talking about his two month old baby.

Originally Posted by patsycat

I was talking about his two month old baby.

Haha. Think he might be cuter than my "little guy."

Patsycat,
I don't follow you. Are you asking for some pics of my son ?
I also thought you were talking about the creepy crawlies.
Being a house building thread, I didn't think it appropriate to go and post his pics.

Cheers !

Steve

It was about your son, sorry.

^^^

OK, I don't want to turn this thread into a bunch of pics of my new son. But here's a couple from late last month.





Steve

Hi Steve,
He looks very beautiful, and since when have these house building threads been exclusively for house building? Mine's about bananas at the moment, and we've had some wonderful arguments about the sex of an oven on others!!!
Marty

Did someone say something about bananas ?








Steve

Steve, now wasp will be in relapse.

Hades Airlines is about to depart .






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Thanks Steve , he certainly is a handsome wee boy.

Originally Posted by patsycat

Thanks Steve , he certainly is a handsome wee boy.

I'll second that.

Thanks all.
Say what you want about me, but I do make good looking kids.

Greetings from Nigeria !

Originally Posted by stevefarang

Thanks all.
Say what you want about me, but I do make good looking kids.
Greetings from Nigeria !

Say "Hi" to the former oil minister for me. Tell him I'm still waiting for my $5.6 M USD to be deposited into my US bank account.

^^^^

LOL, actually a new friend of mine, Prince Jigabooboo of Nigeria, is having trouble transferring some 32.7 million US dollars out of the country. So, go ahead and send me your bank account number and we can split it 50/50.

Steve

Originally Posted by stevefarang

LOL, actually a new friend of mine, Prince Jigabooboo of Nigeria, is having trouble transferring some 32.7 million US dollars out of the country. So, go ahead and send me your bank account number and we can split it 50/50.
Steve

Not until his friend, the former oil minister, completes my transfer. At least I don't have to split that.

OK, so my brother in law has filled in the west end of the house, where we had the gaps that snakes and other critters could get under the house.
I thought I had a before picture, but this is all I can find right now.





And, this is his handy work. Looks ok. I'm assuming he went all the way across, filling in the other gaps. I can't tell if he put down some mulch.




Other news, I brought over some ghost chili seeds and planted a few to see what would happen. Well, looks like we have a little success. My wife is going to try them Friday night. I'm curious to hear her reaction, as I've yet to find anything "hot" that impresses her taste buds.



Steve

Looks great Steve, the Chateau is looking perfect!

Just to clarify, the pics I posted above (showing the filled in area and flowers) are for the corner, where my office is located. My wife tells me the bad smell is now just a little bit. It must have been a big snake that died under there.

I also posted a pic of the ghost chili plant that actually grew. My MIL tried one last night and said it smelled very nice (hom dee) and was very spicy (peht mark-mark). Looks like I finally hit upon something to impress the wife's family !
Now that I know they will grow there, I'm going to see if we can get some more growing. Maybe get a very small business of growing & selling ghost chilis.

I have an old high school friend sending me some "zombie chili seeds" from Ecuador. He claims they are the hottest chilis. So we'll try to grow them and see what the Thais think of them.

And thanks O large one !

This weekend, we are adding some more nice fill dirt on the east side of the house, where we sit outside. This will raise this area, in anticipation of the perimeter wall. I want the nice fill dirt as this will be wear we will have some nice landscaping and plantings.

My wife has a quote from guy who is supposedly well regarded for building nice walls. We are also installing security screens on all the windows.

House is slowly coming along. I look forward to going back there in about 3-4 weeks.

Steve

Steve, you may want to double check about mailing any seeds. The last I heard, it was not allowed to bring seeds from the outside into Thailand.

All you gardeners may be able to shed more light on this. Otherwise, it sounds like a very good idea.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Steve, you may want to double check about mailing any seeds. The last I heard, it was not allowed to bring seeds from the outside into Thailand.

All you gardeners may be able to shed more light on this. Otherwise, it sounds like a very good idea.

He's going to discretely mail them to me in the USA. In fact, they are on their way now and should be waiting for me when I get back from Nigeria . I'll carry them over from the States. That's how I brought the ghost chilis over.

Steve

Originally Posted by stevefarang

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Steve, you may want to double check about mailing any seeds. The last I heard, it was not allowed to bring seeds from the outside into Thailand.

All you gardeners may be able to shed more light on this. Otherwise, it sounds like a very good idea.

He's going to discretely mail them to me in the USA. In fact, they are on their way now and should be waiting for me when I get back from Nigeria . I'll carry them over from the States. That's how I brought the ghost chilis over.

Steve

Great idea posting this on an open forum. It's illegal to transport plants and seeds internationally without a license. (to restrict the spread of plant disease and other nasty destructive plant stuff) and Thailand having a large agricultural industry is quite sensitive about things like that.....as is the USA, EU, AUS,... NZ is absolutely paranoid about it.....etc etc....

Better hope the generals are not monitoring.....otherwise you could be moving from Chateau Stevefarang to Chateau Bangkok Hilton......

^^^

Having been to both NZ and Australia quite a few times, I can understand and respect their unique situation.

However, I seriously doubt anyone is going to have a hissy fit over a few chili seeds brought in to Thailand, for the purposes of growing fresh vegetables/fruit (I can't remember what category chilis are) for personal consumption.

I think they have more important things to worry about, such as illegal narcotics.

Interestingly enough, we bought, about 4 years ago, some Aussie mango trees from a local nursery. They advertised them as having fruit averaging 2 Kg vs the standard 1 Kg mangoes in Thailand. They are bigger and still taste pretty good. The father in law sells them at his fruit stand and they are fast sellers. Interesting, as the Aussies don't mind exporting their fruit trees.

Steve

Great idea posting this on an open forum. It's illegal to transport plants and seeds internationally without a license. (to restrict the spread of plant disease and other nasty destructive plant stuff) and Thailand having a large agricultural industry is quite sensitive about things like that.....as is the USA, EU, AUS,... NZ is absolutely paranoid about it.....etc etc....

Better hope the generals are not monitoring.....otherwise you could be moving from Chateau Stevefarang to Chateau Bangkok Hilton......

Ohhh, I guess I was lucky when I brought 20kg of rice seeds with me to the Netherlands

Steve
The cracks in the walls.
Did you ever discover a reason for their occurrence?