फोतोस ऑफ़ रेसन्त अच्तिवितिएस

From Badi Blog

Here is the Spiritual Assembly of Hamilton, as they were last night at the 9th of Ridvan celebration. I did not at all mean to write the title of this post in Hindi script, it just came out that way. Since at least one of these LSA members can read what it says, ask her to transliterate.



Thomas has opened up a branch of the top secret skunkworks installation in our living room. I offered to buy a skunk for a penny but he only had baby skunks and they were going for several hundred dollars a pop. As the Czech and Polish saying goes, little kids little problems, big kids big ones.



This is the Voices of Unity in performance. They will soon be performing at the Chicago House of Worship.

From Badi Blog

Here is what I miss most about Hamilton, the Persian food.



This is the VOU beforehand. Not being tall, I blocked out some singers in the back. Fortunately, this is not the official picture, which had been taken by someone else just beforehand.



Here, for purposes of comparison, are the current members of our LSA, that of Haldimand County. It was taken at the annual meeting on the first day of Ridvan.



I was hitting table tennis balls against the wall, my daily exercise, in the garage when Thomas wandered in and, completely on his own, began salvaging parts from leftover equipment and electronic kits. He stuck them together and when we finally got a live 9 volt battery he connected it to the contraption and lo and behold it lit up! Nobody was more amazed than he was. He wondered if this would go down in history with Edison's inventions but we said probably not. Nonetheless a good entry into the world of electronics. Edison said that chance favors a prepared mind but sometimes it favors unprepared minds too.



Our neighbor, Mrs. Goodfellow, is organizing a knitting drive for these Izzy Dolls, which Canadian soldiers give out to Afghani kids.



These were knit by local people. Ready to send off. She says if you know a knitter who might be interested it doing this, that there is a website. Google "Izzy Doll." She is involved in Eastern Star, and has several other such groups involved in this.



This is Silvie's 2nd Dunnville Scout Troupe at a camp in Stevensville, on the outskirts of Fort Erie, Ontario. The boys were all off planting trees this weekend, so they were all girls at this camp. They had ten contests and 2nd Dunnville came in first in 6 of them, which qualified them for the grand prize. Silvie, the leader told me, did very well in the memory test. I maintain that they did so well because they had an unfair advantage, being all girls.