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Category: Island Life

Life on the 4000 islands in the South of Laos.

An Interrupted Lunch

Posted on June 8, 2022January 31, 2023

Donna said, “I know what is for lunch!” We had been making big pots of vegetable soup, but in light of the fact we had come to the end of this pot, our dilemma was, what to have? Donna had, of course, come up with the answer, “Bratwurst and sauerkraut!” This suggestion sounded good to…

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The Family Next Door

Posted on May 21, 2022January 31, 2023

One thing is for sure, our life is never boring. A few months ago a family moved into the house behind us. The house has been traditionally vacant except for rice planting and harvesting season. It is a typical Laos house with one room, a porch, and a kitchen that is very open to the…

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Sokdee Pii Mai Lao!

Posted on April 15, 2022January 31, 2023

Good Luck Laos New Year! Pii Mai Laos is officially three days long but the parties tend to go on much longer stretching a week or more on either side of the actual holiday. The official Don Det Pii Mai Lao celebration starts at the temple, a holy day of prayer. The second day begins…

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The Spirits are Angry!

Posted on March 23, 2022January 31, 2023

After doing some chores around the house, I walked over to the garden Fred and Lea left us to care for and harvest vegetables from. I heard a commotion of people at the top of the little hill and the rice field road. There was white string crossing here and there. Normally, we’ve seen that…

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How did we end up in Laos?

Posted on December 28, 2021January 30, 2023

By Donna Howley & Lance Harrison “And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” — “Once in a Lifetime” David Byrne Beginnings Ok… This is going to take a little while so, get a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and this is our story! It was in 1990 that Lance and…

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A Culinary Adventure

Posted on December 27, 2021January 30, 2023

Here on Don Det as the rice is finished being cut, and the grains knocked off the stalks, all those helping, gather for a party to celebrate the end of the work. Our friends Kham Pau and Mr. King invited us to the King family gathering for this event. So we hopped into Kham Pau’s…

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Dark Side of the Moo

Posted on December 15, 2021January 30, 2023

So, I caught a cow in our yard. I warned the owner that I was going to paint it and while she wasn’t happy about the idea… it happened. She said she was embarrassed that I painted her cow. I told her the best way to avoid embarrassment was to keep her cow out of…

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Unwanted Visitor – Viper!

Posted on May 27, 2021January 30, 2023

I made a little walkway with bricks leading into our front gate. After everything was set I was moving some dirt around to “landscape” it a bit when I saw Marie frantically running to me with her nine month old baby bouncing in arms, exclaiming, “There’s a big snake on our porch! He was only…

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Thresher almost in the Mekong!

Posted on December 14, 2020January 30, 2023

Nov 14, 2020 Donna and I decided we were going to take an afternoon walk. Normally in the morning we just walk across the bridge a few times because it’s nice and flat but this afternoon we decided to walk up the sunrise Mekong path. We walked over, what has become known as, ’broken bridge’….

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Island Life, Going to market…

Posted on November 6, 2020January 30, 2023

Going to the market is always an adventure.  I have to be out on the shoreline at around 7 am to get the attention of the market boat as it goes downstream to pick up some regulars at the temple. I luckily learned the two finger whistle to which the driver acknowledges with a wave….

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