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February Update

 

This past month has been more busy than normal so I haven’t had any real time to be on the computer.  I’ve been busy with all the normal things.  Running the lawn care business, the rice mill, lots of maintenance at Im Jai House, and even a few side electrical jobs.  Plus our vegitable garden at home is growing and is getting bigger all the time.   

We’ve had a few guest come and go.  First Emmet was here, then Adams parents and his aunt.  Then my friend Len from Iowa was here too.  He comes almost every year doing different things with orphanages and teaching English.  He is now going to be building a hostel in the mountains for kids to live while they go to school.  A much needed thing as most of these kids live too far from any school to be able to attend.  I’ll be doing what I can to help, including building a reverse osmosis drinking water system.  Something of which I am in the process of learning at the moment.  I know enough now that I was able to fix Im Jai Houses system.  We may make a video and try and do a little fundraising to try and build more systems and place them in different needed places.  Like orphanages and hostels for kids.                                                             

The rice mill had a great start but it seems to be slowing down at the moment.  I’m not sure if that’s because of the time of year or other reasons.  It seems that people want their cake and eat it too.  We built a rice mill because people wanted to process their rice.  But now they are complaining that the bran that is discharged from the machine isn’t enough.  They use the bran to feed their pigs.  Other machines apparently give more bran than the machine we installed.  There is one discharge part on the machine that spits out stuff you can’t use and another part where the bran comes out.  My theory is that the other machines which are much smaller and lower quality (which they are used to)  don’t separate the bran out from the other discharge as well.  Thus you get more bran but with other stuff in it too.  We are doing what we can to solve this problem to try and bring more people in.  These are just the things that when going into this thing I had no idea about and we are now trying to figure out.  The learning curve is high.

The family is good.  I know most of you already know but Prang is pregnant again.  Yeah!  Abigail is doing good and has started to talk up a storm and really enjoys singing.  She’s a lot better than her dad who can’t sing at all.  Park is doing well and should be getting off of his one years probation here soon.  Ton and Koi (Prangs two younger brothers)  still live with us and work with me when they are off from school.  Ton should be finishing his civil engineering degree here soon too.