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Handmade Ganpati Idol for Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations Teracotta Clay Handmade Ganapati Idol

I planted bitter gourd (karela) and bottle gourds this year in my vegetable garden. The vines are creeping in all directions and bearing lovely flowers.  Bitter gourd and  Bottle gourd  Bottle gourd creeping everywhere I am getting a very nice produce from the bitter gourd plant  starting with small pretty yellow flowers and converting into pretty spiky karelas. One of my colleague at work even described it as "kind a like dinosaur" due to its spike. Spiky Karela - Bitter gourd  But all the baby fruits on the bottlegourd plant appeared to be rotting or dying on the vine or falling off the plant before developing into a fully grown fruit. I did a lot of search on Google and found out why the baby fruits were dropping off. The reason for this disaster was inadequate pollination.  The bottle gourd plants produce both male and female flowers and are not self pollinating. They need help from pollinators to carry pollen ...

Its that time of the year again when I have to start planning what decorations I want to do this year for the Ganpati festival starting on the 1st Sept. I was looking through the photos of the  Ganpati decorations from previous years. So I thought of sharing the Ganpati decorations photos from each of the 6 years in the U.S.A. Ganpati decoration @ LasCruces, NM -2005 Ganpati Decoration @ El Paso, TX - 2006 Ganpati Decoration @ Oxford, OH - 2007 Ganpati Decoration @ Trenton, OH - 2008 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2009 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2010 Now I am in a dilemma of what next should I use to make the Ganpati temple in my Ganpati decorations for this year.. Suggestions please!!

I totally love the Psykopaint App in the Chrome web store. Check it out!

A very happy Independence day to all my Indian friends! जय हिन्द !! मेरा भारत महान !!

My first Daily challenge for May is " Call a friend a day ". I am not very good in making calls to friends and talking personally over the phone, yes but I do try to keep in touch through the Internet. But I think I need to change.. so I have decided to start my 30 day challenge with it.. Randomly select any friend and call her and talk to her or at least 5 minutes. If by chance I get the voice mail, leave a message and try another friend, but talk to at least one friend on daily basis for the entire month.. So hopefully some of you will be receiving calls from me.. :) Lets see how I keep up with this challenge.

Today I received a call from someone claiming that I have a couple of tickets pending to pay.. and he started on and on about one from 2008.. Here I am trying to recall how come? I am trying to ask him whom does he want to talk to.. think u got wrong number ... Just trying hard for him to stop and listen to me... and then ... he said .. u should not be driving...  or may be something like u are to stupid to be driving on the road... may be these words are not exact but do express the words exactly.. I was horrified at that person... How could he say that to me.. He started laughing, mumbled something and hung up on me.... What is happening today... I thought it to be kind of embarrassing initially... I was driving back home and the whole time was thinking who can it be.. I decided that I will trace the number.. I called.... and the number did not exist... Wow... now what.. I was sure this is a prank ...but who?  a radio station, a friend , a colleagu...