November 19, 2019

My 67th birthday came and went on November 16.  I am older now than my Father was when he died.  I wonder if I will live longer than my Mother who went when she was 83.  Only time will tell.

Looking over my calendar since I last posted, I realize that both my Dharma and Patches died in the same week although a few years apart.  I still remember them and miss them.  Happily all my current crop of animals is doing well.

Tsweetie sleeping just inside the front door escaping the rain which has been pelting down since September.  You can find her in the same place now as the rain is pouring down.  She has gotten really cheeky now and has decided that she also likes the cushioned window seats in the front room.

A entwined snuggle of Buddy and Putha both on my lap.

Putha/Nangi love

An occasional visit from Baby snuggled up with her children.

Everyone wants to keep warm in this cool rainy weather.

The Kawasakis celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary with a high tea that just happened to fall on Deepavali.

November sees a lot of birthdays:  my friend Devika with whom we had a celebratory breakfast at the Grand Kandyan, our hotel of choice for breakfast these days.  On November 9, Malcolm and Deanne had their birthdays.  Malcolm and Viv threw the Scorpio party this year as I was forgoing mine for a trip to Jaffna.  George and Yvonne stayed over the night of the party, so we wound up the festivities with a nice breakfast courtesy of Vineetha on Saturday morning.

In preparation for the trip to Jaffna, Judith and I drove up to Kurunagalle from where we were to catch the train.  Good thing we sussed it out beforehand as they had completely changed the entrance to the station to the other side.  We had lunch at a rest house on the Kurunagalle lake which is lovely and stopped in at the Selyn handloom factory store which was disappointing and disorganized.  They did not have change for large bills.  Then when we managed to scrape together the required small bills, they tried to give me change in LKR.5 coins which are thick and heavy.  This was incomprehensible as they had an unopened bag of LKR.10 coins right there.  Finally, I made them open the LKR.10 bag and give me the right change.  When I inquired where their manager was, they informed me that s/he was in Australia.  Great way to manage a business!