Long Sorakaya's from my Mama's home

This is the picture of sorakaya from my mama's home. which is too tall just like him.

Tried to capture the long sorakaya (bottle gourd) in a single picture .... but could not.... so took another picture.

The following picture is from my aunt's home where she broke the sorakaya into two pieces. Laid them attached, to show the length of the sorakaya.

I also took the next picture because I felt they just looked like twins :) .

Home grown - 2010 -2

Since I did not plant many this year, I am currently enjoying a good number of long green chillies along with cucumber and Gongura (Sour greens). Here are couple of snaps from different weeks.

Roses

Roses from my backyard:

Home grown - 2010 - 1

Gongura and Green chillies

Crochet - Pillow cover - 1

This is the first pillow cover with crochet work I am working on. I just finished it. I have to sew the pillow cover now and then attach the crochet work to the pillow cover. (decorative pillow). Will update the end product of this soon. Will also update the instructions on how to do this soon.

Scarf - 1

This is the first scarf which I made for my husband. Simple design - just simple knit-knit-knit until you finish the scarf. 

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Backyard Plants - 2010

Green beans

Mint

Green Peas

My First time harvest of the season. Mint leaves, Green beans and fresh peas.

My home decorations

Knitting for Chemo caps

Well this is my first lesson in knitting and I was excited that I got a chance to learn new stuff. Chemo caps are a popular word now-a-days. Basically it means that caps made for chemotherapy patients. These caps are made generally to donate to some hospital for chemo patients. I did the following two caps which will be going to help some chemo patients.

Although it was my first two caps I got good grip on the pattern I was making. The first one had mistakes which were seen by people who are good at knitting, and the other one was I was trying to mend the pattern to make it look more pretty. Anyways, both experiences taught me something to learn in a good way. 

Indian simple hanging piece

D.C from terrace level of Kennedy Center

More pics to be added soon.

New Goddess idols at home

I always had a dream of decorating home in india traditional style. One of the first steps that I took this time when I went to India was to get murthi's of Goddess laxmi (goddess of wealth) and sarawasthi (goddess of study, wisdom and knowledge). This is the first picture after I opened the murthi's, before arranging them as a decoration. As you can see that the home was a total mess after we came back from India. Lot of stuff to clean up and rearrange. So currently I am in that phase at home.

What I did not bring is maala's for ammavaru. which probably will be my next step. These type of idols can be bought at lepakshi stores or at authentic handloom stores.

Kondapalli Bomma - at my home

Birthday Decoration

Birthday decoration of my son's second birthday party in India

Cake at the party - Butterscotch flavor with bal hanuman on it

Baasara (Basar) trip

Basar is a famous place of lord Saraswathi devi, who is treated as goddess of wisdom/education/study. It is believed that children who starts writing at this place is expected to have the goddess blessings and do well in education.

We went to baasara for aksharabhyasam (Start of education) for my son. The picture below is a small utsava vigraham of lord Saraswathi.

We were 11 members so we hired the small van which is kind of mini version of swaraj mazda (very popular van in India for big crowd like 25).

We stopped at AP tourism place Haritha's to have breakfast. I was amazed to find the following playard for kids. My son loved playing in all the small rides.

Some more photos from Baasara

Charminar

a pictorial view of charminar

Inside Charminar

Steps to go up

View from charminar to streets

Paan

This is one of the pics taken at thirupathi after our food. ofcourse, you can see this picture at any pan tela's you find. But for those who are unaware of it, Pan is had after you have food. People say it is kind of gives boost to digestion after heavy lunch or dinner.

You can see the sweet pan making in this picture. It looks so inviting after you have your tasty lunch. you can also japatri which is a special one added in sweets. People say (by experience obviously) that if you have little of japatri it gives you so drowsy feeling (almost equal to after what you have alchohol).

Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year 2010

Javascript: getElementById works only in IE - Solution

I always find wierd problems and solutions to it everytime I use javascripting. This is one of the many which I would like to share with you all. Logically the solution is easy if you have the following kind of code:

in javascript code:

var v = document.getElementbyID("test").value;

and you code has hidden value of test in it probably like:



The above code works fine in IE browser and fails in firefox or other browsers. Simple solution is we are not used to add id in the input tag and we are calling element by Id. so I solution for above is either change in javascript:

var v = document.getElementbyName("test").value;

or in the code as:


Easy isnt it. Let me know if things are more complicated than this. I will try to find solution. :).

Snow time this weekend

Our car after we backed up from our drive way to opposite parking lot. Still lot to clean right !!!!

Our front yard view from our door while it is still snowing on saturday afternoon/evening time.
Our backyard, after it snowed all night. This shot is taken on saturday afternoon, while it still continues to snow.


Our Home at night after a little clean up of our driveway