Above – Flowers Maya & Sparty brought me from the OB Farmers Market.

Below – Designs on the OBYoga t-shirts I had batiked while I was in Pune – a hot item.

Swim time.

Maya using an overabundance of chalk at gymnastics. Imagine that …

Gymnastics friends James & Sparty being silly after gymnastics.

Here are some videos to show what the kids are up to at gymnastics (taken Sep 13).

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Above – Hogan missed me.

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Below – someone violated the yoga studio

and visited regularly.

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Robb and the boys went to the Jelly Belly factory.

and the Zoo.

and the train museum.

AND train ride.

AND the carousel!

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I received a package.

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Ziggy missed me.

So did Bear. Horribly.

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Pappa and I Facetimed.

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The new yoga cabinets got finished (as in paint finishing).

Bruce had to move all the “stuff” into the spare bedroom.

Pappa put felt on the “package.”

and put it on it’s own special shelf in the yoga cabinet.

Everything got put back in place.

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The Birjoo Mehta Workshop took place at Williams Barn in San Marcos. This has been a work in progress for the Iyengar Yoga Association California Southern Region of which I’m Communications Chair. I already had my Pune trip planned before the date was set for this workshop so I couldn’t make it. I hear it was, although very hot, a great success. This venue was filled with 150+ attendees when it got going.

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Above – Sirsasana on the hill behind Fergusson College.

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Below – The day before I left I said goodbye to the team at Ayurjoti.

Then a final walk in the rain. That’s Jill with the umbrella.

This little fella didn’t seem to mind the rain.

He also didn’t seem to mind that he was blocking our sidewalk.

Oblivious to the fact that we were amazed over the size of those huevos!

A photo after our last class at RIMYI.

On the tarmac – me, Jill and Deni (Maui). We all caught the same flight to Mumbai.

Finally on my Emirates flight from Mumbai to Dubai.

Here’s the flight path.

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Above – L-R  Jill, Archana, Nirmala, Nana w/me in front.

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Below – When we pulled up in front of Nana’s house in the rickshaw we were greeted by Chamely (English translation = Jasmine), Nana’s sweet little dog.

Looking out one of the windows.

Hey Bruce, check it out. Nana has reverse osmosis!

Nana likes to pour his chai from his cup into the saucer to drink.

View from one of the decks looking out at the farmland surrounding Nana’s home.

A condominium structure is being build to one side of the property. The workers, including women and children working together to mix cement. What’s rare here is the presence of a compressor and cement mixer. On most of the constructions sites workers mix the cement manually.

This small structure houses some of the workers.

Back in the house on the top floor is the family altar.

One of two family kitties.

There’s a small pond outside.

Here’s Nirmala (Nana’s wife) with the cat.

Wheat storage. Nana said they go through one of these big bags a month. That’s a lot of wheat.

Nirmala makes quilts. Here she is holding up several of the quilts she’s made.

Deck at the top (4th) floor.

More views from the deck.

While we were up on the deck, a goat herder herded these goats past the house.

Dinner time.

Selfie eating homemade bhaji. I got the recipe for this tasty veggie dumpling.

Here’re my dinner plates. I ate all of it and more. Very delicious!

Nirmala cleaning herbs.

Nana isn’t very techy …

Here are both cats.

Archana (daughter-in-law #1) joined in the cleaning.

This is what the bhaji looks like before it’s dropped into oil.

Group photo.

Nana’s entire family lives in the 4-story stand alone home. The living room (which also serves as the dining room) and kitchen are on the 1st floor. Both sons and their wives have bedrooms on the 2nd floor. Nana and Nirmala’s quarters on the 3rd floor, and the outdoor deck is on the 4th floor. The last time I had dinner with them was in 2013 with Sharon Maruca. At that time, they lived in a smaller flat. Since then, son #2 got marred and they moved here three years ago. It’s nice to have had this homemade meal in a more intimate setting.

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I am home now after two days of traveling. I’m a bit jet lagged but I slept on both legs of the trip and slept fairly well in my own bed last night.

There was a bit of a scare the last couple days before we left because of heavy rainfall and severe flooding in Mumbai because of the monsoon. Much of the city was shut down because of the floods, people were stranded and public transportation was at a stand still. There was more rain this trip than my previous trips, but the temperature in Pune was moderate and with umbrella in hand everywhere I went, it was quite comfortable.

I’m looking forward to spending the next couple days getting caught up on 5 weeks worth of mail, resting, recovering and practicing.

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