Our new fish farm.
We are digging a pond and using the dirt from it to build up areas on either side of the road where we are building our first houses. Eventually, of course, we will be bringing in a lot more fill dirt from the outside, since we still have to bring up more than half of our property by a meter and a half at some point. What we have already filled gives us room for our first sixteen houses, our main office/rest home/dormitory/school building and the volunteer apartments we hope to build someday.
It is probably awhile before we need to bring in more dirt from the outside, so digging the pond lets us raise fish as well as get rid of a couple of areas that can get marshy after the big rains. We’ll raise the same fish that we see for sale at the markets here. They seem to be the most popular with Nang Rong people and are not as cheap to buy as I would have expected. After I took the picture of the future pond, which is just to the outside of the circle road, I turned around and got our house with the pilings for the next house showing to its side. We will be building on these very soon.
Rot stands in the circle road in front of a small “forest” of pilings. We’ll cut these off just above the ground and build our 2nd house on them. Note also the new low voltage power lines at the right of the picture.
I had some concern about our girls falling into the canal, and now we will have a new pond. It’s for the fish to swim in, not the girls. They are not allowed to swim in the canal, the water is to dirty for that. They won’t be allowed to swim in the new pond either, but you never know. So it’s been swimming lessons all around.
They have all already had five two hour lessons while I was gone for awhile. I’m told they did OK, but I’ll get over to the pool with them soon and check them out. We’ll see if each one can jump out into the deep end of the pool and easily get back out. If not we’re going to have some more lessons. Fortunately the girls don’t seem to mind the prospect of that at all.
Our girls at their first swimming lesson.
