this is the coolest time in the South India This part of India is always is very hot the whole year round We have only one season most of the year --the summer But Monsoon is the other season which starts anytime May -June & last till September -some years i remember it rained up to December-January Oh it was lovely from the coolness point of view But this long monsoon is not good for the farmers Also even a short Monsoon heavy rains makes out roads into NO ROADS full of pits slug small ponds/puddles dot most of the roads well the kids enjoy jumping in to the puddles very happily -as it is the mothers that have to wash/clean the school uniforms!! The other thing is the washed clothes take so long to dry We have to have the Fan on to dry them Those who do not have a fan hang then above the fire place -the fire wood here plays a double role of cooking & drying the clothes But the one thing that goes with it is the smell of the wooden fire which lingers on the clothes!!
But I love this season Of coolness for a couple of months bad road,inconvenience & all I have to always remeber to disconnect the TV from the mains & the antena To disconnect the modem the the computer otherwise it gets burnt out with the lightning I lost a New cordless phone which Rashmi so lovingly got from me from the USA to the very first rain of the season due to the lightning
:) - monsoon also means long raincoats, wet bus rides :D . remember when you used to come to pick me up from school, I was in charge of "controlling" the wind shield. haha, I felt so important doing that. Awww. Hmm it also reminds me of smelly clothes, chorentes, catching tadpoles, power shut downs, dinner by the candle light, thunder and oooh yeah those round mushrooms season, and peeling-them times.
ReplyDeleteNo worries about the phone ma :) , do you atleast have one now?. There should be some way of making those cordless phones handle our south indian monsoons :) ...hugs to you,thanks for rekindling those dying memories.