Life
Project #365 Day 77 Jambu Flower Blossoms
The jambu fruit are growing – it’s that time of year. 🙂 The jambu erupt into blossoms, which then fall…
Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
We don’t get pretty little spitting little delicate rains here. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no! We get the…
Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car, which is how…
Project #365 Day 72 The Brownouts and Bunnies!
Yeah, I can be a bit overdramatic at times, hey? 🙂 Every day, or, more accurately, most days, I make…
Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it and cared for…
Bathing in Sri Lanka
I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In some neighborhoods, people…
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 linens be sold…
Project #365 Day 67 – Remedial Post
Yeah, I’m really not sure how many people will stop reading my blog over this, and yet I go ahead…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em best we can,…
Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!
Which I’ve also seen spelled as jumbu and jumboo and a bunch of other ways. But Fahim insists it’s Jambu.
Project #365 Day 58 Buns! Or, Bunnies!
Fahim calls ’em bunnies. I blame him for the title of this post. 😀 I make my wild yeast (sourdough…
Handmade Furniture
It’s quite easy, I’m told, to find someone to custom-make wooden furniture for you here. I’m also told that it…
Water Tanks On Houses
We have somewhat frequent water outages here, and they can last 12 hours or longer. Fahim even tells me of…
A typical main-ish road in Sri Lanka
This is the view from just outside the Arpico department store where we go for grocery shopping. While there are…