Today's post consists of several unrelated photos of the day, but I will do my best to make it a cohesive read for you all.
Drain The Swamp 🚱
My country's former orange president, the one and only Trump always liked to say "Drain the swamp!," so that's exactly what I did today. The former owner of our place built a small fish pond on the side of the house, but by the time we had moved it was full of broken phones, trash, aquatic plants, rats, and a resident water snake. I've never been keen on having this thing so close to the house for many reasons.
This mini swamp has claimed my leg, two pre-teens, and a mother has even dropped her baby into this non-feature. I managed to cut the plastic sheets enough to slide them out, and after noticing the water wasn't draining quickly, I broke up some of the concrete and let it flow. While raking out some of the plants, I noticed an area full of light brown water, and when I moved the roots in that area, a snake slithered away and it smelled like sewage. I can only assume the snake had a personal toilet contained by a root room, the best bit of engineering in this whole project.
Hello & Good Night 💤
The parathas haven't come into existence yet, but since the only evidence of them was the thumbnail, I won't share the same image twice. Pre-paratha o'clock, realizing I barely documented the swamp draining project and needed some photos for Hive, I peered into the girls' bedroom and found Srey-Yuu doing homework and Nim passed out on the bed. Her curfew is 5pm, so we woke her up in the evening, guess she just needed a nap away from home.
Monkey Reader 🔖
Monkey-B has read her softcover Harry Potter book more times than I can count, mostly because English books for kids of popular western titles are very hard to find, and reading isn't really part of the Khmer cultural interests. It was at this point she looked at me and said "I'm hungry," then I knew I'd be cooking and delaying several hours of work, so I made parathas and green tomato chutney in a rush, took the one and only photo of it and it became the thumbnail. It's now 2:04am, got to get to bed and wake up at 5:20am to do the tuk-tuk school routine all over again. I may try and sleep in the tuk-tuk tomorrow morning after I drop the kids off, it all depends on the weather.
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