Category: July
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Some Kitchen Work
If you don’t engage my special one, he can be a nuisance. That is how we started cooking. Our main course is sambhar and the curry powder I use is completely homemade. The past few years I make my son participate in dry roasting the ingredients and making into a powder. Usually this quantity lasts…
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Silk varieties
Silk sarees have always been a passion of mine. Though a bit guilty, I enjoyed the extravagant saree that I purchased at Kancheepuram , famous for silk sarees, for my marriage. But silk has undergone so many variations and we get soft silk and silk cotton sarees now, which I indulge without spending too much.…
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Touch wood
Last year my garden was attacked by a bunny . He munched anything and everything that grew. Growing plants was hard. It was depressing to start my garden this spring. But I am raising an autistic boy. So I always have hope. So we started with so many precautions. But the bunny family had multiplied…
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Visit Erie
Many years ago I used to watch a reality show called the amazing race. Participants start at one place in the US travel around the world and are eliminated as they travel along. I loved every part of the show since the adrenaline rush is high. Visiting different places, doing different activities, meeting different cultural…
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Cleaning up
The past few weeks I have been trying to clean up my house. To start the process of clearing things out I found out I needed to have a strong mind. Even a tiny bit of attachment to a piece of cloth or a mug is going to collect dust again. Two weeks back I…
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Sunday on the Montour
When I did my bucket list in June, one activity I wanted to do was a 5k walk. To do a 5k somethings need to be in place and it did not happen. But today was great. I have an app called map my walk that calculates distance, pace and time so I decided to…
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Ancient
When you see messages like these, that makes you feel ancient not the the long buried civilizations eras. For RDP Wednesday prompt: Ancient
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Happy 4th of July!
With so many red white and blue projects with my boy in the past six weeks forced me make some American food for my parents. A 4th of July party setting with zero planning. Being vegetarians my younger one shopped for his grandparents so that they can eat at peace without questioning about the ingredients.…
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