Category: Life

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Lizard of Odd

It’s up to 36 Celsius today. Ugh. In other news, we had a bit of a lizard…

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Codpieces are back in style. . .

And it scares me. Men’s briefs are borrowing an old trick from the Wonderbra: companies are engineering…

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Things that go Boo!

I’ve mentioned how the Boneeto cheese commercials freak me out. They also have milk commercials. With the…

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Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift

Two men, labourers, showed up next door this morning, about 9 am, and started hacking away at…

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Yes, we have no bananas . . .

Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image…

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Fahim Showers

Yes, it may shock you that I’m willing to post a picture of dearest taking a shower….

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Fahim has a strange sense of style

But I don’t care. He’s an adult. He’s responsible for himself. He can do whatever he wants….

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Smokin’!

Literally. To burn something, one does not need a permit here, I assume. I think it’s a…

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Fahim eats with his fingers.

This is not, in fact, news. I’ve mentioned it before. Perhaps I should state it again? Okay….

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On another note. . .

I think most of you know by now that Fahim’s a little, uh, strange. Which is perfect…

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And you know how Canadians sometimes – and only sometimes – have fruit trees in their back yards?

And it’s usually apples, but occasionally, especially if it’s the Okanagan valley, it’ll be peaches or pears…

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Sleepers.

These are pics of some of my favorite sleeping objects. In the first, we have Oberon on…

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More on cows. Serious cows. Or maybe very happy cows?

I’m really not sure. This is still on the way back from the acupuncturist, and there were…

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Rail Road Stations

One day on the way to the acupuncturist doc guy, I took this pic. Or rather, on…

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The Frozen North

One person’s comment about Ice Highways in the frozen north of Canada and the US: I think…

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Dead Veggies

You remember me belleeakin’ about how Fahim likes his veggies cooked to the point of dead and…

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Curried Mung Beans

I took a look in my recipe database and found a recipe for curried mung beans. I…

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One Thousand and One Ways to Use Coconuts

While I was waiting for Marlene and her girls to go to church together, I admired something…

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Ox and Wagon

I’ve talked about them before. This guy leads an ox and wagon past our house about once…

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What, Are Cows Really Everywhere?

Oh yeah. Fahim and I walked to his work to use the internet today – he still…

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OSC

This morning, I went to OSC – Overseas School of Colombo – to meet with Karu about…

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Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree. . .

Fahim comes home for lunch with a big blue bag hanging from his handlebars. It’s the antenna…

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Photos!

I have a few photos to share with you, and they’re pretty much completely unrelated from each…

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We Have Sinhalese and Tamil and English Television

We watched a little bit of tv this morning – to see what we get and to…

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Oberon loses his new bestest and most favoritest toy

Oberon let his instincts fly today. Oh, look, I made a punny! Seriously, though. . . Fahim…