Category: Feb 23
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A personal touch! WDYS #179
Image Credit; Axel Ruffini @ Unsplash Ray looked at the picture. The company logo looked fine. But something was bothering him. His was a construction company. He loved that all the work his men did. They used their hands and the logo fit perfectly. Yet it did not satisfy him. The computer generated hand was not what…
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Simple Things!
Our neighborhood ice-cream shop opened last Tuesday and we were lucky the weather was good that afternoon for an ice-cream. I took a picture of the ice-cream and my younger one said, oh this is for your blog! Of course I said! Winter is done and spring has arrived. We had a very mild winter.…
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Golden words!
It was the last day of school. The Kindergarteners were proud that they will be in first grade soon. They were becoming big. They felt they were an adult almost! Mrs. C decided to give the children a small assignment on this last day of school. She asked each student what they wanted to be…
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Patience
The next few weeks, due to one too many problems most of my basement needs to be renovated. This is my son’s sensory room and things need to be moved because of this. The work started yesterday and he could not sleep at all last night due to the anxiety that they had moved some…
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What I have binged on!
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? Ha Ha, When I saw this prompt I needed to write. I have binged on NCIS. There are certain seasons I love more than the others and felt sad whenever a major character left the series. I still watch it on CBS streaming…
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Smoke, WDYS #177
For Sadje’s What do you see #177 Image credit; Leighann Blackwood @ Unsplash The final moments of the game was on. The two teams were tied and just seconds remaining the ball flew and hit his head and he could smell smoke. John shuddered and realized he had dozed off watching college hoops and was woken up…
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Intermittent Fasting and Eating out 😊
Second week of intermittent fasting done. We are 12 hours fasting from 6 pm to 6 am. Me and my husband are targeting a healthy lifestyle and this seems to be a good approach. The past two years I have gone on a diet and had lost significant weight which I want to maintain. So…
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday, Legos, Part 2
I love to read Fandango’s Flashback Friday since I am new to blogging and all of his flashbacks are new to me. I never had a chance to write my own since I never had one for that particular day. But when I looked at my archives I saw that I had a very good…
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Little Jimmy’s thoughts for WDYS #176
For Sadje’s What do you see? Image credit; Dex Ezekiel @ Unsplash Little Jimmy loved his new home. He loved his new family. He was being called foxy since he looked like one by the children in his household. What he didn’t like was being carried around in that bag like a baby. But he loved his…
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Cookie Stand for Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #209
Paula hosting Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge, challenging bloggers to write a flash fiction piece or a poem inspired by the photo. There are no style or word limits. This week’s photo is credited to inactive account – ID 1103997 on Pixabay. It depicts three girls of different ages/heights dressed in pink and blue aprons and…
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Henna
Two days back my Mom told me she was going to wear marudhaani. Marudhaani is nothing but henna. This is not the one sold in packets in store but the fresh one. My parents have a plant and usually the leaves are plucked fresh and grinded. We used to have a stone grinder outside and…
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Learning and Fasting
I received some good news in my email, that I passed my third level sanskrit exam conducted by Samskrita Bharathi USA. Last weekend, I received an email saying the results would be announced in a couple of days. The nervousness I experienced whenever I received an email alert over the next couple of days made…
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Siblings! What do you see #175
Written for Sadje’s What do you see? Image credit; Joshua Clay @ Unsplash A girl and then a boy every parents’ dream fulfilled. Is it same for the siblings? Not so! It’s looks like a rivalry from day one. The elder sister tries to dominate the little brother. The younger one doesn’t care. She tries…
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An appointment, for Fandango’s FFC #208
For Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #208 Now hosted by Paula. Welcome! I am temporarily hosting the FFFC while Fandango recuperates. Please join me in sending good vibes to Fandango with the hope that he’ll be back in top blogging form ASAP. In the meantime, I will be posting a photo I grab off the internet…
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When it rains it pours!
After a fun weekend at Ontario (if you have missed , check it out here) we came home to find that we have so many maintenance, repair and replacement work. I think that is how life is. My Mom used to say this while I was growing up and I have seen in other people’s…
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A 70s Love Story
It was her birthday tomorrow. It was the first time she was going to celebrate without her parents and in her newly married joint family home. He knew there would not be a celebration like she used to have while she was at her parents. He could hear a song from the latest movie Bobby…
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Newspapers
Does this picture inspire you to write something? Image credit; The Ian @ Unsplash When I was growing up my Grandfather was keen on reading the obituaries in the newspaper. It has been years since I have bought a printed newspaper and really sad that current generation has no clue about the excitement it used to bring…
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Charm Bracelet
I realized only today morning that I was wearing a charm bracelet made by special one. He made this at his social group, the theme being Mardi Gras. He has made and I have helped him make many things in the past but I have never worn anything. We made a mask yesterday and a…
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Lake Ontario
Deep grateful thanks to the State Department employees who sent all our renewed passports last week much to our suprise that we could do an impulse trip to Toronto for President’s Day Weekend. It has been more than 5 years since we crossed the border so this trip was truly exciting. Toronto was cold but…
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Things People play with!
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge : Last week was Things People Grow and this week it is Things People play with! When my special one was 3, we started browsing the internet for various therapies and one of them was Floor Time. This was a method developed by Dr. Greenspan and it involved tons of…
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