December 20, 2007

251206 life by the river - Ban Sop Houn

The cat's favourite side of the river...

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Hauling big fat sack-loads of sand:

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Did not realise that this shape was a lady taking a break...

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...until she started walking again:

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Weaving walls out of strips of bamboo:

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The rhythm of machete striking hollow bamboo stem is one of the cat's favourite 'village sounds', just like the 'zzzzzt-zzzzzt-zzzzzt' of machete slicing banana trunk to make pig feed. Not sure why they are doing this by the river, maybe the dampness gives the bamboo strips more flexibility & helps prevents them from 'cracking'? Or maybe it's simply the biggest flattest workspace they could find ;)

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