Today is a Friday so it is a fairly relaxing day. It is the first day of our weekend. Alice and I want to go out to eat at Noon. I didn’t play football early this morning since there was a field day at the playing field for some school. The team I am coaching is playing in a tournament which starts this afternoon.
FISHERMAN #2
This fish eagle is looking for his next meal, which obviously will be fish.
FISHERMAN # 1
I actually took this shot in December of 2007 while on a “Bengal Tours” trip to the Sonderbans in Southern Bangladesh.
I worked hard to get this shot of the circling Brahmin Kite
I love sunsets! Watching the sunset is definitely a relaxing way to end a good day.
A beautiful sunset over a Bangladesh rice field.
COLORS
I’m glad God made colors. The rainbow is a great example. The fabric colors here in Bangladesh are vivid and colorful!
These vivid colors were at a handicraft stall in Moheshkhali, and Island in Southern Bangladesh
GIRL IN HEADER
Lalbag an old fort in Old Dhaka provides many opportunities for photography, including visitors. This is another pose of the girl in this blog’s header.
A slight grin for the camera.
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Feet take us where we want to go,
Sometimes swift and sometimes slow!
Sandals can protect our feet,
A barrier between us and the street!
Moheshkhali Fisherman stepped out of his sandals to fish.
RESOURCEFUL
Well the paint on the shelves is dry and the shelves are in the kitchen, one on one side of the gas stove/oven and the other on the other side. These shelf units were donated by CAM as well as the nice oven. It had been bought used a year ago, originally coming out of the embassy. If you look closely at the photo of the painting in progress you will notice upside sardine cans (the one unit was raised up on oyster cans) used to raise the shelf unit up off of the drop cloth. The sardine cans are still full of sardines I really couldn’t think of anything else. These cans had been brought from Canada for snacks for the CAM team down South. The Canadian worker left after two weeks not wanting to take the sardines back to Canada. Nobody else was really into sardines so they were given to us when they emptied out the supplies in preparation for closing down the project. They had built 450 homes since starting in the early Spring of 2008. I did celebrate by eating one can of sardines, once the paint was dry enough to move the shelf units into the kitchen. I guess the items on the top shelf are in recycled jars. The jars were from coffee that was purchased over the last 15 months.
Austin’s were in Malaysia over Riley’s birthday so we had a belated Birthday party. Riley was as excited as 5 yr-old’s can be. When you talk of recycling paper we experienced it. We bought a pack of printer paper and on the inside was a poster for the election. Alice then took the paper and again used it to wrap Riley’s gifts.
Shaheen, our helper brought her 11 year-old daughter to work with her yesterday. I decided to show her how to paint. She helped me do quite a bit of this project painting two shelving units for the kitchen.
We attended a engagement party for friends (Jon and Fiona)just days before they are heading for New Zealand and then Australia for an April Wedding. They will likely return to Bangladesh in 2011. It was a special time.
Another fairly normal day in Dhaka. It’s still dusk and the temp is at 73 degrees F. I made a visit to the local market. I ordered three chickens which they took out of a cage, weighed, and then prepared for me while I waited. I also picked out some nice pieces of beef to take home. A neighbor stopped for a chicken, so I chatted with him till his chicken was ready. We then walked home together. He enjoyed the visit and said he hoped that we would see each other every day till we die. We inherited a four-burner stove with oven from CAM since their SIDR relief project here is finished. Today a fellow came and installed it and took out our two burner “chula.”
I also painted the first coat of the main color of paint on a cupboard for the kitchen. Too late for a before and after photo.
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