As Good as It Gets

Today we had our real monsoon showers.

We had from light to moderate rain throughout the day.


Temperature came down and the humidity too.

At 3 in the afternoon the sky was black with clouds

and with a cool breeze blowing

Sheeba and I sat out on the porch

enjoying the moment.


It good to see nature washed and clean.

My mom is already worried about floods.

Actually there is flooding in North Western India,

New Delhi has taken a lashing too.

But Eastern U.P. where w e live is

so drought stricken, I don 't think

there are chances of flooding here.

Water logging, - plenty of it in the cities though.

Well, besides all this it was a

BLUE/BLACK Day for us

Blue for the rain

and black for the power outages.

Yesterday too we had incessant power cuts

all day and through the night.

Today it was worse.

We 've hardly had a decent supply.

Composing this post has taken me a long time.

A man who had been to the electricity sub-station

told us there is something wrong

with a transformer.

Well, its taking them 2 days and a night to fix it.

Stamp...stamp...stamp!

The water supply came when there was no

power, so I could not fill the

overhead tank properly.

But I choose electricity over water.

What about you?

Oh well, in the West people don' t

have to worry about this option,

at least not on a daily basis.

I think it would be better

living in the middle of the

Amazon forest

rather than this contrete jungle.

When the lights went out again at 9pm

Sheeba and I sat out in the garden

trying to enjoy the wedding fireworks

all around us.

Folks tonight is an auspicious wedding night

so scores of weddings are taking place around us

in the post hotels and weddings halls

in our neighbourhood.

But Sheeba doesn 't like the idea of wedding fireworks.

She takes umbrage at people throwing

fire at the sky accompanied by

loud bangs and music.

She lodges her complaints with powerful barks.

I tell her ;Sheeba beta, let

others enjoy getting married

while we are collecting our tears in a bottle

in the dark.

To amuse myself I took

some photos of the fireworks

with my mobile phone.

Haven' t uploaded them yet. I want to finish this post and

R.I.P.

read

Rest in Peace

or

Return If Possible.
So glad there won' t be any shortage

of light and water in heaven.

The river of life flows there

and

the Lamb (Christ)

is the Light.