Chandy

Hi, Your father must have been a wonderful mason to be able to set all those stones in place and have them all so even. He built a very nice house. He did great work.
I always wanted to have some real colored stones set in the area just around my front door. Maybe I still will someday, but I am already 75 years old, so I probably won`t be able to get it done.
I know so little about India. May I ask if Chatta mundu is your Religion, or the name of a place,or what? I would love to learn more about your Country. I live in the USA.
Thanks for sharing your picture with you all dressed up in your Christian dress. Nice picture. Some of my favorite pictures are the older ones.
What is your weather like now? We are in our Fall weather and the nights are starting to get real chilly. I have a shop where i make things from wood. I bought some insulation to put in the ceiling of my shop building to keep out more of the cold air, so I can work out there in the cold winter days.
I am enjoying reading your blog posts.
 

the 'chatta' is the blouse my mother is wearing and the 'mundu' is the sarong. That was the traditional dress among the Christian women in those days. But anyway, all religions here wore the sarong--man and woman--and it was(is) usually white or cream.
 

Thanks loads Suemamma for explaining that to me. I love learning the customs of other countries.
Hope your Mom posts more about her life and about India.
Thanks.
 

Chandy, I just stopped by to say "Hi" and wish you a wonderful Day. Looking forward to reading your next post.
 

I live in Kerala the southern most part of India. We have mainly a wet weather and a dry weather the temp on an average is 30c. It rains very heavily in the months of june,july. it rains nonstop on somedays. But it is beautiful.
 

Then you must be in your dryer season now. I heard on our news that parts of India is having well problems and they were trying to drill the wells deeper hoping to find more water. I hope you have plenty of water in the area where you live. I also hope the deeper driven wells find more water for the people in the dryer areas.

Here where i live it is getting colder. It is fall and will be winter in a few months. we have four seasons. I live in upstate New York in the north-eastern part of the United States and we have snow here every winter.We sometimes start getting snow in the late fall also. Expecting rain again tomorrow.
Thanks for telling me more about your country.
 

TDear dotm,two of RC's grandchildren studied at Cornell Univ, Ithaca and one son lived in upstate NY for a few years.They have experienced the joys and difficulties of -25 weather and heavy snow. It is such a contrast to most of India where snow is never seen,and-25 weather totally inconceivable.