While parked outside the 2,2500៛ store in Pramaoy I looked to my left and saw a myriad of pimple popping photos on a signboard next to the street.

🚚 Pramaoy Has Gone Modern 🚮

     While on a trip to Pramaoy, the nearest town with a vegetable market about an hour's drive from our house, I noticed that the town now has a trash truck service. Most towns in Cambodia have no trash collection services or landfills of any kind, especially if the towns are not provincial capitals, so it was quite surprising to see a green trash truck roaming around town. We now finally have a place we can bring our garbage and know it will somewhat responsibly dealt with.

     In the USA there are dollar stores, and here in Cambodia there 2,500៛ stores, a price that is roughly 62 cents USD. We stopped at this shop to grab a few odds and ends like welding glasses and notebooks, but this time I decided to stay in the tuk-tuk and snap some pics instead of going inside. I took a shot across the street, noticed the garbage truck approaching, but I failed to see the most obvious thing nearly within arm's reach of my tuk-tuk.

     Just as I was about to do a full 360 degree view, the trash truck arrived, things got stinky, I got distracted and took some trash truck pics. But not long after the truck left I was back to scanning the horizon for Hive content to share with you all. That's when I turned my head to the left and realized I parked in front of the town pimple popper.

👨‍⚕️ We'll Squish Your Zits For A Fair Price 💸

     I immediately discarded the bowl of marinara sauce I was sipping and began looking at all the pimple pics on the signboard next to me. In most countries you wouldn't see such confronting images, well, at least without before and after shots. After struggling to keep down the two rolls of sushi I just ate, I looked up and noticed there are a few pics of someone with a blemish-free face. Apparently you can come in here as a Cambodian woman with a face full of pimples and leave as a white western woman with blonde hair, a pretty impressive service.

👋 Hello ChairWoman Meow 🐈‍⬛

     After we finished our shopping trip and headed back towards the mountains, we arrived to an active construction site and the one and only ChairWoman Meow, our communist kitty that believes in 16 hours of sleep a day for all living creatures. Ms. Meow is luckily pimple-free or I'd have to take her to Pramaoy to get popped.

🏗️ Construction Continues....

     All of our first floor footers have been poured and now some of the castings are being removed. It is exciting to watch the progress, but also troubling to watch entire life's savings get used up in a few months, It seems my 40 years on Earth is valued equally to a modest two-story 12mx6m home in Cambodia. Do good in school kids and go to university, otherwise you might end up like me, something 95% of folks probably wouldn't be okay with.

     Even our Cambodian family members think we are nuts for living here in the middle of nowhere, but our 3 years stranded abroad in Suriname during the pandemic really made us lose faith in humanity, and now I no longer desire to be surrounded by my fellow humans. Things often go wrong in Cambodia, so I will not be excited about our house until it's actually done because the government can always throw a wrench in your plans until you give them money for any reason they may come up with.

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