Pyramid House Thailand: Disturbing monster monsoon

For us it's getting time this monsoon comes to an end now. People start to call it a monster monsoon. Again another week heavy rains, thunderstorms and flooding. We cannot reach our land or the village anymore. The road from the village to our site is flooded. Some places with over 25 cm fast flowing water that is eroding the dirt road now. Dangerous to walk. The road direction the highway collapsed again. It's not possible to use this road because of many deep and muddy holes and mud tracks.

Even the farmers have enough of it. This morning, walking with the dogs in the rain, I was almost struck by lightning. Cupid, who was very confident with thunder and lightning lost her trust at once and jumped one meter high because of the hard blow from lightning that slammed into a rubber tree close to us. A branch of that tree broke (see picture).

Over and over again we are in a lockdown. Even tractors cannot use the dirt road anymore and get stuck in the mud as do cars.

The Phu Yai Ban (village mayor) of our village signed a letter to the local government to do something to make the road safe and ready to use. Villagers call it an emergency situation. Not sure if it will help. It's not only us who make use of the road but most farmers who have to take care of their fields and livestock.

Due to an overkill of rain, the soil of the farmlands is oversaturated. Like other places our soak away fields (draining fields of left waste sewage water) are underwater and not working properly at the moment anymore.

Fishes, escaping our pond and rice-fields now are everywhere in the garden and on the roads around us.

Rain is coming and going. And because of that our work turned temporarily into a kind of stop and go game. Even supported by power break after power break for short periods or hours in our village and surrounding areas.

Although we cannot make use of our truck and car and most of the time also not of our scooter we still have enough building material to go on finishing the second guest pyramid room. But cutting, sawing and grinding we need to do outside. So at the moment we can work for one or one and a half hour and have to take our workmates, tools and materials inside again and change our work.

We did inside painting of the steel 'roofbed' and turning stepladder, finished the inside block gluing and fixed the safe, ventilation system as well as the sockets/electricity outlets. The blocks got a primer so they are ready for tiling and gluing carpet.

At the moment we are installing the Shera splendid planks for the ceiling and inside walls.

In the mean time we bought already the induction hob (7000 Watt) and extractor hood (max. 1000 m3/hr.) for our inside kitchen in the new house (outside we get the possibility to cook on gas). A more than wonderful promotion for high quality devices we could not pass up in this time of high inflation and sky rocket rising prizes.

We wait some more weeks to order construction materials to start with the main house. The road to our site first need time to dry enough and need to be 'flat' again. Not a single truck at the moment can deliver goods, let alone bring heavy loads like sand, blocks or concrete. We hope within a month the excavator can come to dig and prepare the land where we want to start with the house.

Happy again we have no schedule or project. It's all a process and we cannot change the weather...

This afternoon, just in between rain showers, a beautiful sunset. Also part of this season.