It was nearly midnight by the time we came back.

Monday evenings are usually with Amitesh. And then once in a while Anusuya joins in. I do not know why – whenever it is the three of us, there is way too much mirth and laughter that goes around. Add any one more person or subtract any one person – and it is never the same.

Drinking sambuca might have something to do with it 🙂

Even the bar manager came and asked us if we needed to use the restroom before she closed down the place!! All I remember was there was a spirited debate about bhalo chhele. I will let Avi and Sharmila expound on that.

More than thirteen years back Sharmila and I moved the daughters and ourselves from Dallas, Texas to Milton, Georgia. While parts of Milton has seen a lot of development after that, certain other parts still retains the semi-rural style of living. You know … like dirt roads, well water, septic tanks and internet thru DSL.

We have absolutely loved living in the privacy and beauty of quiet solitude of nature. It used to be that if some farm or neighbor lost a cat or dog, they used to staple the picture on those wooden electric posts and we used to read them up.

Lately, we have had technology like “Nextdoor” apps. But I promise you, you can bring in technology to us, you cannot take away our pastoral living though. Check out some snippets of lost pets in our neighborhood from Nextdoor… goats, pigs, ducks, horses and what have you!!!

… has to be a good cappuccino brewed by Sarah Lovelady at The Land of Thousand Hills at Halcyon. This has become a near daily routine for me. The staff is extremely friendly and always helpful.

Today, Sharmila joined us too! Great evening. One of the lines that came up during the discussions – “You cannot argue somebody out of something they have not been argued in to”. Recently heard this in a Covid related podcast.