Our youngest son has taken a real liking to the 7 puppies. Sometimes he is a bit rough with them (with the loud yelping bearing witness to this.)
The puppies have now opened their eyes and are quite cute.
The North region of Thailand had their Pastors Sports day in Lampang. Pastors from Phayao, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai and other regions came to participate. For the last few months I'd been training with the 'Pastors of Lampang' soccer team getting ready for the big day. When the day game it was a tense affair and it was a knock out competition. If you lost you were out of the tournament. We were against Chiang Mai pastors first. We were down initially but came to level 2-2 by the end of the first half. In the second half we cruised pastedChiang Mai eventually winning 5-2. We fortunately had a bye in the second round and went straight into the final. The opposition scored within about 10 seconds which left us shell shocked. I scored to level at 1 all. We were down 1-2 going into the last minutes of the game when we leveled 2 all. This led to a penalty shoot out. I was up first for the Pastors of Lampang. I meant for the ball to go right of the goal keeper but it went straight at him. Fortunately, the shot squeezed through his legs and into the goal. We ended up winning 2-0 in the penalty shoot out.
Here are some of the more unusual sports
After a month of no students turning up on Friday nights for our student evening, we had 8 Chinese students on exchange at the local university. They come to practice their conversational English.
This morning we were very annoyed with our neighbour's dogs as they were barking loudly and it was before 6am. After I got up I normally check on Phayu and I couldn't find her in the usual places. Then I discovered her with 6 puppies, having given birth in the garden! I had been training her for the past 2 weeks to give birth in the box I had setup in the outside room. Within the next hour she gave birth to 2 more puppies. The last one (9th) didn't make it as it had stopped growing sometime in the pregnancy.
Unfortunately, blacky #1 didn't make it. Phayu lay on top of him while I was taking the children to school and our househelp answered the yelps of blacky too late. Phayu then started to eat Blacky before I took him away. I waited until the children came home and we buried him in our garden.
Blacky #2 with the rest of the gang.
Cleaner enviroment of the box I'd prepared (and my old mambo shirt). I don't really know how I'm meant to be taking care of these puppies. Phayu seems to be eating the poos of the puppies so the box is being kept clean? Do I put newspaper in the box and change it each day?
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