Before Mr. Martin asked me to write a weekly article here on LiP, I had posted a monthly article on the (Military) Retired Affairs Office Web Site here in Subic Bay Area. The downside was there was no feedback or interaction with the readers. Well sometimes I’d be sitting in a beer joint and introduce […]
Oh it’s Christmas Now
I know this because my wife Mayang told me it was. The stores were trying to tell me last month at the Mall in September that it was Christmas, but they didn’t fool me for a second. Christmas is when brings in people to start hanging her Santa’s lighted sleigh on the top roof, her […]
Holy Bat Guano, Batman (Project 3 Conclusion)
During the painting of our house, I wrote about last week, we had to take apart and rebuild two bat caves that were where my top floor awnings used to be. When Boy-O opened them up, hundreds of bats took flight, four Filipinos’ also took fright, my wife and her sister ran to the street, […]
The Third Project is Paint the House
It’s been ten years since our house was painted last and the mold and sun has taken the luster off the rose. Last year when we tiled the front of the house it looked good, until your eyes looked up and saw the rest of the joint. So I guess it’s time, oh hell I’m […]
The Second Project is Flood Control
When we built our house in 1999 I wanted a slab roof as they tend not to blow away during Typhoons, this I learned in Florida and Puerto Rico by just looking around after a hurricanes and seeing who had a roof and whom didn’t. With a slab roof there will be other concerns such […]
The First Project is Upholstery
About this time every year just as the Rainy Season is waning and Christmas Season is upon us, we start our yearly projects to improve our house in some way. There will be three projects this year, and this first project started last week, Mrs. Thompson (Mayang) decided she needed new foam and three new […]