A day in the life in the North

[sabang]

Great stuff Stumpy- beautiful house and grounds too.

[Stumpy]

Nice thread , keep the pictures coming
You have very good taste in architecture style.
We have a similar home, same color scheme, only a bit smaller. (It's only the two of us) and three big bedrooms is plenty.
Though Next house I build will be ground level. Though I don't have any problem heading upstairs (I am 65)
I am beginning to feel it. I try to keep in good shape and active (bicycle almost every day a few Ks) , but I can see how in 10-15 years it might start becoming a problem
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Hey BB, I like your idea of a pond below the stairs in the event of a header over the stairs. Is it deep enough?

And I do like your color combo. My wife was was the final say on the colors but we both liked the scheme. Thankfully my wife was not into the Bright Orange, Blue or Green colors with a matching bright blue roof.


Did you find the saw horses on Lazada through the link I sent? I have to say while a bit pricey You can 2 for the same price in the US but supply and demand ya know) they are extremely well made and the 2x4 slot to have it be a portable work table is really nice.

Happy Friday. Its Q day....

[Stumpy]

I love looking back over old stuff, gives you perspective sometimes when you are being a bit hard on yourself or down. Nice build JPPR

Yeah me too Toots. Its nice to see the traveled path from where it started to where you are today. I do wish I would have pushed my wife harder to buy the land that was open to offers back then. It was cheap and would have definitely changed the house position on the land plus given us a nice plot in the mooban. I didn't want land that wasn't attached to ours. Having land away just didn't appeal to us. Again many places were empty and vacant and the people who owned the land lived in BKK and they wanted to sell. It was cheap back then. Now they are triple or quadruple the price now as this area land is appreciating incredibly fast. My wife is now taken care of and after I croak if she should want to sell out and move on, she can cash out. We do not have any children, and won't, so we do not have anyone to pass it on too. I think ultimately she would pass it to her niece if she decided to stay living in it. Of course, Its up to her.

[Stumpy]

With the holidays coming figured it best to stock up while things are plentiful.

Happened to be that Makro had full wild Norway salmon just in. bought a 6.5 kg big one



Wife already cut off the head and bagged it up for my FIL's soup. Nice salmon





Cut into nice salmon steaks



Vacuumed sealed and in the freezer.



Also stopped at Tops and did a pool bar fridge restock. In another week or so the shelves will be empty and only loaded with Thai beers.



Another perfect Thai winter day..



Sitting at the pool bar now watching the SF 49ers/ Seattle game.



Annie watching the property

Happy Friday!!!!!

[aging one]

Sitting at the pool bar now watching the SF 49ers/ Seattle game.

Replay? The one I watched got over at 11:45 and we dominated Snubs Seachickens up north.

NINERS!!! NFC West Champs.

[Stumpy]

Replay? The one I watched got over at 11:45 and we dominated Snubs Seachickens up north.

NINERS!!! NFC West Champs.

Well not a replay. I have NFL Game pass so I watch them when I want which is extremely convenient. Niners look good. Defense is solid. Playoffs coming.

[Stumpy]

Well Friday being my big Q day I decided to do another bone in Prime rib.



Quick sear in the kitchen



As it slowly cooked on the Q went up and poured me a nice dram of Blanton's



Made up some homemade gravy from the au jus for the mashed taters



Dinner as served watching the NFL game



Money shot.

[bsnub]

full wild Norway salmon just in.

Bullshit the only way you can get wild Salmon in Norway is if you catch it yourself. The salmon that is exported from Norway is farm raised crap and that fish you posted pics of is not wild.



A quote from the video...

I'm from Hardanger in Norway. The river in my hometown used to be one of the best salmon rivers in the country and it has been completely destroyed by fish farms. The vast majority of salmon are now escaped farm fish full of parasites. A few years ago me and my father spotted a fish in the river that was almost completely white from fish lice and totally blind, he walked into the river with a spear and stabbed it, it was too frail to resist and didn't even seem aware that anyone was near. For years we have petitioned and protested to no avail, the farm companies act like they own the fjords. Please don't buy farmed salmon, when you do you're helping to destroy a fjord that is a UNESCO world heritage site.

It is complete crap and I would never eat that shit. Sorry stumps you are my bro but That is garbage fish.

[bsnub]

Some real shit from the last time I cooked wild local salmon...

[Stumpy]

No issues Snubs. They claim wild but could be farmed. No way of knowing. Quality looked good. Very fresh. In all my years of salmon and steelhead fishing the various species have very different meat color. Chinook always have a heavier orange/red color. Same with Sockeye.

Cheers to ya Snubs. Happy Holidays.

JPPR

[malmomike77]

Looks fine to me JPPR, you work with what you have when you are away from home

[Mendip]

The massive salmon farming industry in Norway has absolutely decimated the wild salmon population.

Two main reasons... farmed escapees breed with wild salmon but the offspring have no built-in instinct to return to the same rivers to spawn and so entire historic populations are being lost, but mainly fish lice spread to the wild salmon as they pass the farms. The Norwegians now pen wild salmon returning to the sea in cages and then tow them out to sea as fast as possible to minimise contact with the farmed salmon.

It's very unlikely that your salmon was wild, I'm not even sure there is a wild salmon industry in Norway. But I'm sure it will be delicious none the less.

[Stumpy]

The massive salmon farming industry in Norway has absolutely decimated the wild salmon population.

Two main reasons... farmed escapees breed with wild salmon but the offspring have no built-in instinct to return to the same rivers to spawn and so entire historic populations are being lost, but mainly fish lice spread to the wild salmon as they pass the farms. The Norwegians now pen wild salmon returning to the sea in cages and then tow them out to sea as fast as possible to minimise contact with the farmed salmon.

It's very unlikely that your salmon was wild, I'm not even sure there is a wild salmon industry in Norway. But I'm sure it will be delicious none the less.

Good info Mendy. I personally never researched it. As Toots noted, you work with what we have here. I guess I should have just said "salmon" versus what Makro claimed with wild.

Farming fish has become a huge industry globally. Only wY to know its wild is catch it yourself in a river or out in the ocean.

[malmomike77]

I guess I should have just said "salmon" versus what Makro claimed with wild.

we seldom get defrosted at the local Makro so go for the frozen Norwegian whole salmon. The fishmonger counter are not keen on cutting it into stakes and you have to specifically tell them you want it an inch + thick or you get 3/4 inch which is no use to man nor beast as i like mine slightly undercooked in the middle and a crust on the outside.

[Norton]

Here ya go Stumps.

[Mendip]

^ That's more like it Norts, a nice Isaan freshwater fish. None of this fancy, imported sea fish nonsense!

[malmomike77]

I had Gaeng Pla Chon with Dill tonight, and very nice too

Edit

Dill the herb not the poster

[Mendip]

^ One of my favourites!

Edit. The dish, not the poster!

[malmomike77]

Mrs likes it pretty spicy, bordering on the painful. Tomorrow is short rib with young makam leaf and gaeng som, that's me thai'd out for a few days and popping ice cubes up me toot.

[helge]

The salmon that is exported from Norway is farm raised crap and that fish you posted pics of is not wild.

Probably not

It is complete crap and I would never eat that shit.

If Stumpy is happy with it....

My wife loves it, and being from Isaan.....raw


Sadly it's no longer, due to pollution, so safe to eat our ..Baltic..salmon and seatrout.

Remember when it was: 'Eat fish atleast once a week'.

Now it's: 'Don't eat fish more than once a week'.


We have done well for our kids.

[DrWilly]

^ One of my favourites!

I had Gaeng Pla Chon with Dill tonight, and very nice too

Bloody pooves!

[Stumpy]

Here ya go Stumps.

Thanks Norts, be a fun catch and release on some ultra light fishing gear but as for eating catfish.....Naaaah I will pass. Have had it various times in different cooked styles and just do not like it.

[Stumpy]

Now it's: 'Don't eat fish more than once a week'.


We have done well for our kids

I know crazy huh Helge. We really let them down in so many ways. Both my daughters talk about it and why neither have any interest in having children. I fully understand and respect it. Why I had no desire to have any children with my current wife.

[Stumpy]

Kind of an ugly day weather wise. No sun. I far prefer the sun. I did however get some good news that a long time colleague is moving to CM with his family. He should be here in Late January.

Short of that day was busy.



Did a pool area and lotus pot clean up.



Had the NBA game on while I worked .







With the wife off at her aunts house I decided to Q up some Lemon pepper chicken wings and have a beer. With a slight breeze Sandy was enjoying the smell while she sat on the grass.



After lunch I wanted to transplant a tree over by the sala. Then Joey comes up and decides a hole inspection is required.



He left then heard me digging again and returned. Probably hoping I was planting a Mulberry tree.



I finally took a break to watch the Miami Dolphins/ Buffalo Bills NFL game and Sandy starts pushing her ball in my face. "Lets play fetch"



4PM and its Old Fashion time.

Just another day

[BLD]

That's a damn fine looking pool and entertainment area you got there Stumpy. I'm guessing everytime you pop the lid of a beerlao you give thanks that your a mercin and not some damn jobsworth with bad teeth living in bumfuck pattaya hating on the natives. Har har