There was a
mixed feeling being shifted to this house more than four months back. There
were many ups and downs related to family and home environment, but the part of
my life travels on similar path, more or less, nothing bothered me much and I
don’t feel much change in my life, apart some mishap with father (who’s just
back to normal after his bike fall) which led our life thought physically
trouble and emotional stress. For nearly two months, mom had been the only caretaker
of mine to take care of my needs indeed without the support of dad, which was
the troublesome phase ever in my life.
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Today
everything seem to be nothing and the difficult times are no more, because,
they are almost become a part of my practical life. Leaving those behind, life
has been wonderful with pros and cons and the weather on other hand had been
very pleasant these days unlike extremely hot when we shifted home back in
April and followed by sultry May. The rain that make way through last two months
had sent wakeup calls to mosquitoes (even though they aren’t new for us and
they are almost everywhere around Chennai) we are forced to close all the
windows and door before 6 pm to prevent them enough. Even we can’t sleep
without fans on; glad we have an inverter to keep us asleep when the power goes
off often when it rains.
The house is well lit throughout the day without
a need for lights (each room has two wide windows) only the wind couldn’t enter
much unless there’s heavy blow outside. We aren’t daring to keep all windows
open to make free entry for mosquitoes since we haven’t put nets for windows
like how we done at our early house. Though it isn’t a matter anyway, but
maintaining the house to keep clean wasn’t easy enough which was double the
size of our early one and with trees around we can’t stop leaves thrown
down. But what I liked more was the
small garden space of the backyard, which is enough to say than nothing, and
who won’t dream of a house with garden space. I liked it much and want to see
it bloom with flowers and grasses.
Before we come
to this home, my bro wanted to make lawns with the open spaces around but once
rain stared to pour the grasses began to grow on its own on the open space. I
know they aren't the grasses use for lawns, but a kind of wild weeds growing
fast to a foot now and looking for a cleanup. I suggest mom to direct a cow
(those pass our house everyday and some time lie close to our compound for the
shadow of the tree) to have the grasses as its breakfast, but she don’t like my
idea saying that it will also eat our others plants.
We had
re-planted some of our pot plants there and there’s already a yellow flowering
shrub and bougainvillea that need to grow enough to see blossom. There are
jasmines, hibiscuses, anthimanthaarai (4 O'clocks flower) and button roses
(check the collage above) growing close to ground. It’s so good to see them
blooming like white bulbs every morning and 4 O'clock flowers in cheerful
yellow, there’s also a white frangipani tree at our parking dropping fabulous
flowers. Just four months old, the neighbors were still strange enough except
for this only family that made touch with us, since facing our side front it
was easy making friendship with them.
