Top: Photo Op from one of my walks

Shortly after getting back to the flat yesterday after practice, Aneeta (same cook as 2013) arrived to fix lunch.

Then Sunita arrived to clean the flat (same house cleaner as 2013).

All is familiar here and it’s nice to have these two gems back in my life for the month.

I purchased some white 100% cotton ladies t-shirts (S M L XL – US sizes!) from Target before I left SD and carried them here to be batiked. Sudhir (the owner of Dimpex, the batik shop) told me he’d pick me up at the flat and take me to the shop. OK. That works for me.

Then … Oh Dear God! He arrives on a motorcycle!! Fright sets in, then laughter. Then more laughter, and even more laughter, and I figured “What the hey. When in India …” He hops on. I hop on and off we go.

It wasn’t so bad being “in” traffic on a motorcycle. It’s much different than dodging motorcycles on foot.

These women are doing batik work.

  

The shirts are going to be really nice. I picked several different colors and designs. Sorry, I’m not going to give these ones away, but they’ll be very reasonably priced.

On the way back we drove through a slum area and look what I saw!

PIGS!!! Yay Pigs! That one pig in the upper left corner is nursing at least 8 little piglets.

Here, I zoomed in for ya.

Shortly after getting back to the flat “the electrician” arrives to fix the fan. With Aneeta’s help, I took a photo of his tool bag.

Two necessities for an electrician – wire cutter …

and hammer.

Here’s a video that speaks for itself. I took it while waiting to cross the road.

It was a good class with Prashant this morning. Mostly seated revolved poses and forward bends. Then a two hour practice and more knee therapy followed by an Ayurvedic massage and a home made Ayurvedic meal included in the price that consisted of paneer, cooked corn with pomegranate seeds, soup with “drumsticks,” brown rice and chapatis. The ride to and from the massage was also included in the price.

Prashantji:  “I don’t ever tell you to focus. If you focus you miss some of the things. If you focus you may miss all of the things.”

Behind the scenes: I experimented with yesterday’s post by importing the photos directly from the Macbook which reduced the quality of the photo. The photos turned out smaller and looked blurry to me so today I went back to my old method of typing the blog on the Macbook, saving it, then importing the photos into the blog from the iPhone (aka camera). In other words, I toggled back and forth between the Macbook and iPhone, which is what I usually do. It’s more of a pain this way, but I’d rather upload a good quality photo that gives a better picture of what I saw when I took the photo.

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