Ice.... "toooooodaaaaaaay....."

The trip to the market went well. The walk was nice and relatively cool. I had prearranged an ice delivery for yesterday at 2pm, but he never came by. He ended up passing me on my walk, so I yelled out “naam keng!“… ice. He yelled back “todaaayyyy!“, so with any luck he comes by sometime early this afternoon. I took a breather at my spot under a shady tree near the medical clinic, before I went the rest of the way into the village. Purchases included chicken, veggies, fruits, yoghurt, candles, and 3 lighters, as both the ones I had decided to die at exactly the same time. I bumped into the young gal I usually get to run me home with the groceries. She was available, so once I finished a smoke, off we went. At home, I organized everything in the cooler in anticipation of some ice and got into my usual routine of writing a bit while listening to some music on computer battery power until 11am, when the generator is turned on, and I can recharge all of my gadgets. Noodle soup is something I enjoy for breakfast, so I set out to try my hand at making a batch. In one of my pots I added some water and a Knorr bouillon cube. I cut up ½ a chicken breast, some cauliflower, green beans, carrots and threw those in as well. Finishing up with a bit of salt, pepper, fish sauce and yellow curry. Once everything looked pretty much cooked, I added the rice noodles for about 5min and viola! Now, it wasn’t quite right, but it tasted good. More investigation on the traditional methods and ingredients are required. I ate one of the bowls and put the other one away for dinner. When the power came on, I headed to the main house to use the internet for an hour and on the way back, Tim the Canadian fellow staying in another house, gave me some metal grates to use to keep my food off of the ice. The ice used for cooling, isn’t not dinking water quality. Much appreciated. As I rolled up on my place, the taxi man arrived with my ice. Perfect timing again! I paid him for the ice and away he went, leaving me to get everything put back in and organized. Didn’t use the grates, but I will try to come up with a way of making them efficient. Spent the rest of the day lounging about, and having a few beer. For dinner, it was left overs, followed by a night shower, a show of about 30 eagles gathering in the dusk sky, and then off to bed.