Category: Life

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

What happens on Eid ul-Fitr?

Eid ul-Fitr is the festival day marking the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims….

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 11 Flora

I’m kind of torn between which pictures to show, so I think I’m tossing a couple in….

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 8 Is that supposed to be the hospital cafeteria?

While I haven’t spent a huge amount of time at hospitals, or, more accurately, in hospital cafeterias,…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 7 And the Alien!

I was going to use this as my picture of the day. Because, let’s face it, the…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 5 Croton

One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree

I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus)…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!

Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus

Posted in Life My Photography

Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!

There’s a tree just outside our front yard. It grows prolifically, so even though it was cut…

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A Fat Rant

You know I’m not overly into YouTube videos, but if there’s something that’s well worth your time…

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Fahim, first thing in the morning

Well, maybe not quite first thing. After all, he’d been up since 3:45am and this was taken…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Six Years and No One’s Dead Yet…

Today marks our six year anniversary. Six years ago today, Fahim and I met in person for…

Posted in Life Other

Are marriages necessarily hard work?

Nope. The husband and I have been married six years next month. We had a bit of…

Posted in Life Other

Validation

This is a really cool video I saw on a friend’s blog. I’m not huge into watching…

Posted in Life Other

Flying Fridays is for the birds! Are you in?

And flying insects and bats and… I dunno. I’m kinda thinking out loud here, but I’m considering…

Posted in Garden Life Sri Lanka

Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems

We don’t have a very large plot of land, so don’t have a very large garden, but…

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Pajamaa Pants

I think those are what they’re called. The pants – with big puffy bits where the body…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Fahim’s Shopping!

Lucky guy. He knows what he wants, and he gets it done in no time at all….

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Odel’s! But, alas, no. Pinnacle Shopping Mall? Oh, yes!

Next stop… Fahim’s shopping is done. And he makes sure to remind me of that. For the…

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Id-Ul-Alha (Hadji Festival Day)

So it’s Id-Ul-Alha, or Hadji Festival Day. We had outside food – Fahim’s mom had arranged it…

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New clothes!

As part of the Festival tradition, we gave the new clothes we bought to everyone, and Fahim’s…

Posted in Food Life

Barbecue!!!!!

So*. One suggestion that came from a forum where I’d posted about this was to catch the…

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Stuff we have here that you don’t have there

A question came up recently on a forum I frequent after I complained about all the things…

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Kurta shopping!!!!

We went out and about today, and one of our stops was at Crescat, one of the…

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Art Rage

It’s a free program – Windows or Mac – that let’s you simulate the painting process like…

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My Elephant Hat

This is the wonderful hat my sister & brother-in-law gave me that I used during BIW to…