Month: November 2009
Bathing in Sri Lanka
I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In…
Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…
Project #365 Day 68 Young Leaf
Yeah, I couldn’t help myself. 😀
Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household…
Project #365 Day 67 – Remedial Post
Yeah, I’m really not sure how many people will stop reading my blog over this, and yet…
Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up…
Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. 😛 All those pictures I…
An Award For My Little Blog
My so very good friend, Lynn, gave me an award for my blog. Lynn… Ah, our friendship…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…
Project #365 Day 63 Purple-Faced Leaf Monkey
This guy (I think…), a gray purple-faced langur monkey, visited us again. The pack of monkeys –…
Project #365 Day 62 For The Birds!
Today is a complete and total bird day. Yeah, I just can’t help it. 😀 The yellow…
A Flying Dog
It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…
Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries…
Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!
Which I’ve also seen spelled as jumbu and jumboo and a bunch of other ways. But Fahim…
Project #365 Day 59 Electricity!
I think I use too many exclamation points. What do you think? 😉 This is an electricity…
Project #365 Day 58 Buns! Or, Bunnies!
Fahim calls ’em bunnies. I blame him for the title of this post. 😀 I make my…
Handmade Furniture
It’s quite easy, I’m told, to find someone to custom-make wooden furniture for you here. I’m also…
Project #365 Day 57 Chameleon Re-Visited
He (she? I can’t get close enough to lift his/her/its tail) seems to be a fairly frequent…
Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito
😀 May he rest in peace. Or pieces. 😀
Water Tanks On Houses
We have somewhat frequent water outages here, and they can last 12 hours or longer. Fahim even…