Project #365 Day 17 Wild Yam Flower
Any empty spot of land quickly turns into lush greenery of some sort, especially during the rainy season, when a…
Life
What happens on Eid ul-Fitr?
Eid ul-Fitr is the festival day marking the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. Eid ul-Fitr is…
Project #365 Day 11 Flora
I’m kind of torn between which pictures to show, so I think I’m tossing a couple in. 🙂 And then…
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, I’ve been in…
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 idea of plants…
Project #365 Day 5 Croton
One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as a croton (Codiaeum…
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) continues to be…
Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!
Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus
Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!
There’s a tree just outside our front yard. It grows prolifically, so even though it was cut back around 6…
A Fat Rant
You know I’m not overly into YouTube videos, but if there’s something that’s well worth your time in watching, I’ll…
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 with my very…
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 the first time….
Are marriages necessarily hard work?
Nope. The husband and I have been married six years next month. We had a bit of an odd whirlwind…
Validation
This is a really cool video I saw on a friend’s blog. I’m not huge into watching videos, but given…
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 doing a Friday…
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 we do maximize…
Pajamaa Pants
I think those are what they’re called. The pants – with big puffy bits where the body is, and skinny…
Fahim’s Shopping!
Lucky guy. He knows what he wants, and he gets it done in no time at all. Why? Is it…
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 next several more…
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 last week or…
New clothes!
As part of the Festival tradition, we gave the new clothes we bought to everyone, and Fahim’s mom brought me…
Barbecue!!!!!
So*. One suggestion that came from a forum where I’d posted about this was to catch the thing and have…
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 we can’t get…
Kurta shopping!!!!
We went out and about today, and one of our stops was at Crescat, one of the local upscale malls….