#SoCS May 21, 2022

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “clear.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy! 20-05-2022 Our monsoon season usually starts in the first week of June. We get occasional rains in May, they are pre-monsoon rains. But this time, the days have been cloudy since the 11th and it has been raining a…

#SoCS Nov. 20,2021

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “black, gray, and white.” Use one, use ’em all. Bonus points if you use all three. Have fun! Our monsoon season starts in June and ends in October. This is what happens almost every year. In 2019 the rains started only in July. We were all so…

Everyday Moments – (#SOL-2021)

7-07-2021 Our monsoon season started in the first week June and we had heavy rains for almost two weeks. Now we are having sunny days with occasional rains. This happens every year and every year we are anxious about it. During this season it is reassuring to hear the sound of rain outside, either drizzling…

Everyday Moments(#SOL- 2021)

14-06-2021 On the 14th evening it was raining heavily and we felt it was the right time to eat something fried. My mother cut the cabbage and I made pakodas. It was tasty. We were also feeling very relieved because we had lived two days without electricity 😃. It has been raining since 10th and…

Everyday Moments-(#SOL-2021)

8-06-2021 On the 3rd we read in the newspapers that Southwest monsoon had touched Kerala, the state to our south. We would get rains within a week. We were surprised when it rained heavily on the 3rd and 4th. How could we get the rains so soon? We learnt that it was due to a…

Everyday Moments- (#SOL-2020)

1-06-2021 This year the weather has been different, we have been getting rains on and off since March. Our summers are very hot with high humidity but this year the rains gave us a little relief. But all the time we were thinking whether the rains were good for agriculture. But nature has her way.…

Everyday Moments – (#SOL-2021)

 20-04-2021 January 1st is the beginning of the new year but for most people in my country it is the new year according to the English calendar. Our festivals and other religious rites and rituals are based on the Hindu calendar. Some follow the lunar cycle and some the solar cycle. According to the lunar…

Everyday Moments (#SOL-2020)

11-08-2020 Today we are having a little rest from rain. It was pouring the whole of last week. We need this rain but it has caused untold misery to countless people. Most rivers in our state are overflowing and farmlands inundated and crops destroyed. It is a terrible situation and to top it all, the…

#SoCS June 20/2020

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “zz.” Find a word with double-z in it and use it in your post. Enjoy! Our monsoon season started the beginning of this month, a little earlier than anticipated due to a depression in the Bay of Bengal and a cyclone. We have received good rain…