February 23, 2020

Finally got all my will stuff sorted out.  So now if I pop my clogs, everything is in order. 

Mahjong continues unabated.  We have now progressed beyond Goulash into the full game.  Only the Chinese or the British could invent a game that is this complicated.  We are pretty confused, but having fun.

My friend Claire Hemachandra had her 80th birthday party at the Grand Kandyan.  A nice evening, although it was a bit windy on the rooftop.

Great picture of the birthday girl.  She is full of life; swimming every day (she has her own pool), going to every event you can name and always smiling and enthusiastic.  Hope I am in her shape at 80. 

Ana and Sanjee enjoying themselves.

We are all wrapped up from the cold.  Ha, ha!

My friend Yoshitha and a nice friend of her's.

Claire cutting her cake.

I have been expanding my plant collection.  The lovely people at L'Atelier gave me a cutting of Thunbergia Gloriosa, the blue variety.  The Kawasakis gave me a white Thunbergia, a velvet plant and a very unusual coleus.

Blue Thunbergia

White Thunbergia.  These are not mine.  Mine are still rooting in water.

Velvet plant.  Both my Mother and I  used to nurture these inside our homes in Canada.  They grow like a weed here.  I just shoved the stem in some soil about a week ago and it has already rooted.

On the cooking front, I had some beets which I wanted to do something different with.  So I made this gluten free chocolate cake with coconut flour and beets.

The cake covered with chocolate glaze and sprinkled with gold dust.

The cats continue to delight.  Here is a video of Nangi drinking from the kitchen tap.  Some of you are going "GROSS".  Don't worry, we wash up well after her.