Tag: life
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Roses 🌹
The roses have started blooming. They are a few days behind schedule. But the beauty isn’t lost. I see lot of buds hoping in a week I would have an entire bush full of these beauties. For Cee’s FOTD
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The season begins! ⚾️
My special one hits the ball and runs towards the first base but misses it and is off to the fence. A crowd cheers him and later makes a home run. But this is all accepted and the game ends in a draw. This is the Miracle League of South Hills. A place everyone is…
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Icecream For CMMC
For CMMC: Your topic must any word that has Alphabet any word with an “I”. With dairy and sugar this is supposed to be not very good for health. We try to avoid but the more we avoid we crave more. Some of the ice-creams we have had and this is just a drop in…
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In a pickle
My raw mango has been sitting inside my refrigerator for more than a week now. It has been calling me to make use it. Raw mango pickle is the best accompaniment to thayir saadam or yogurt rice and it can be called the comfort food for most Tamil people. But the pickle has been my…
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Duck Race
What started in November ended yesterday. A water leak in the basement, followed by multiple investigations and repairs, ended with a carpet installation late yesterday evening. Six months ordeal and my husband is even now scared to use one of the toilets in the house. We can safely call it PTSD. Anyhow I have been…
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Sweet and sour
List your top 5 favorite fruits. Thought this was an interesting prompt provided by wordpress. My first favorite fruit is Guavaa or in my language goiya pazham . We had a tree in our house and eating before it became ripe was the best part. I have eaten so much that I have not had…
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The joys of life for WDYS #186
Written for Sadje’s What do you see Image credit; Alisa Dyson @ Pixaby Ben had his baby sitter pick him up from school everyday. Anna his babysitter was a wonderful person. But he was only too surprised to see his beautiful Mama drop by. The happiness was immense and he could share all the things he did…
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Something to think and act
I got lot of Mother’s Day Wishes and two of them really touched me. One of them has a copyright to this organization so I am thanking them https://nayi-disha.org/. Having raised two children one with severe needs and another a typical kid I have worn many hats and yearned for breaks. Now my kids have…
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Rush, Fandango’s Story Starter #96
Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #96 This week’s Story Starter teaser is: She searched her apartment frantically trying to find it, but it wasn’t there… Rani was excited. She had moved all the way across the country for her first real job. She even got a new apartment, one that she is not going to…
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Reflecting
Why do you blog? Answering prompt provided by Blindzanygirl Today morning my shower was hot even though I kept it at the same setting. The reason being our temperatures have increased and it is not so cold. How can I share this thought to the world if I do not have a blog.😃 My son…
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Eradicate?
I have so many fears. I hate speed, fear the heights and snakes make me run even at zoo. I have been trying to eliminate a few but unable to eradicate. Last year I climbed these crazy steps to get to the top of a light house. I then stood brave and took a picture…
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Conversation Starters 😊
The seasons change. My boy has a hard time changing clothes. He would be wearing his sweatpants even if it is hot for a few days and if the cold weather comes all of a sudden he would still be wearing shorts. He would drag his jacket around for a few days even if it…
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A Mommy in Action
A brisk walk in my neighborhood park, I view many things. The kids in the playground the baseball and softball team in action, the future cheerleaders cheering up the youth football league and so on. But the past three years I have seen a Mommy in action all April. The killdeer bird nesting itself in…
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Happy Earth Day and more
We made an unplanned visit to New Jersey last weekend for some personal reasons. It added to the tiredness I already had with our vacation in Florida and our house getting some makeover. The construction crew left the house with lot of cement and wood dust and I (we) have been cleaning non stop. When…
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Workmenship Then and Now
The past few days I have been sharing my brother’s pictures and writing down a blog. He is now doing a road trip, a trip I too dream about visiting Temples and enjoying the beauty. To his pictures I add mine too. Those are the Temples that I visited in the United States during my…
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Lunch Time for FSS
It’s time for my weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (my time), I’m going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the first…
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Tamil New Year/Vishu
I used my brother’s picture on my last blog. Okay as I woke up early today morning it is our New Year, Puthandu, Vishu all in one and my brother had sent me two pictures. A shastiabdapoorthy or 60th birthday celebration lunch he had consumed. His boasting how he finished the entrie leaf/plate in 15…
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Empty Nesters
As I prepare my younger kid to college I remember a deep conversation we had with our Guru many years back. He suggested my son can be placed in a special needs home. My son was soon going to be 18 at that time and it really shocked our family. I asked him was it…
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Being out in the sun
We were in Florida last weekend. We did not go to Orlando but much south down to Miami and Everglades region. Most of you know what they are famous for. The alligators 🐊 are supposed to rule that region. But it seems pythons are now common. The first day on a swamp buggy tour, our…
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Flame of the woods
We are vacationing and it is summer like in this part of the country. The scenery in the south is so much different from North East and they have completely different plants and trees . Enjoying the no jacket weather. Returning home soon for spring like weather. For Cee’s Flower of the Day
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