17 March 2018 Happy St. Patrick's Day From the Abode of Gods

St.Mary's High School Mount Abu 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

St.Patrick’s Day - 17 March a holiday for the boys of St.Mary’s School. On the 17th of March, Ireland observes St. Patrick's Day as a national holiday. It’s a popular holiday in the history of the school as all the students gear up for the Jungle warfare that is carried out every year. Mention St. PADDY’s to an ex-Marian and he will reflect back with nostalgia for the Jungle war game he had participated in while in school.

This year the school has got a break from the traditional jungle warfare game. They gave the senior dorm boys the option of trekking to Gurushikar after 12 a.m. Approximately 120 boys went on the trek, while 45 boys did not. They started at 2 a.m. and made it back to school by 11 a.m. for lunch.

I wish all the boys and staff of St. Mary's School a Wonderful St. Patrick’s Day. 

St.Patrick’s Day would be incomplete without a good drink of beer or Whiskey Cheers!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Click for an Irish blessing.




Cleanliness Drive in Mount Abu. 15 March 2018

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Mount Abu 

Mount Abu is actively working towards the Clean Indian Mission, striving to uphold the slogan. Cleanliness is close to god. I’m sure the Gods are pleased to see an all-out effort being taken by the administration and the local Abuites to live up to the dream of Swachh Bharat.
I’m thankful to the chairman, Mr Suresh Thinger and his team under Shankar, who landed up outside my Abode with a JCB to clean the stream that was in a pitiful state. The pristine stream over the last decade or so had silted up and looked more like a gutter than a stream.
This is the first time that someone from the administration noticed the pathetic state of our streams.
They have reduced all our streams in Abu to gutters, as it has clogged the natural flow due to miniature dams being erected to preserve the rainwater. The water bodies that were constructed are now filled with silt and debris, making them irrelevant. No dredging plans have ever been in effect, leaving these places silted over with no rainwater. I believe that all these so-called rain harvesting efforts by the administration be put aside and removed from the embankments so that in our small hill station normality returns and no flooding occurs in this Abode.

A few snaps of today Ever so grateful to the Abu Administrative. 

Shankar Team Leader 

 JCB with staff in action 

Dredging our stream Yek! The stench!

Mount Abu,blood donation a super Spring event 11 March 2018.

Mount Abu, blood donation  11 March 2018.

We hold World Blood Donation Day on 14 June every year, but here in Abu, any day is Blood Donation Day. The Abuites of this small hill station only have to know it's gonna be blood donation day. They turn up from all walks of life. Everyone, including locals, armed forces, and various associations like the Lions Club and Rotary Club, showed great enthusiasm and fervour. They all head to make every blood donation camp a memorable event.
Today they held the event as usual at the Global Hospital. The turnout was exceptional.
As the saying goes, a pint of booze will do an individual some good, but a pint of blood donated will do you fine! Feel better and fitter….

The signature of my Family Doctor Dr A K Sharma Appreciates his poem.

LET US MAKE A LIFELONG PACT

 Let us make a lifelong pact

With this angelic munificent act

 From our parents’ pious legacy

By true decree, not a fallacy

 Love dyed in sacred red

In ambrosia of one’s blood

 WBC with their soothing balm

Spreading peace and serene calm

 Platelets preventing bloody hemorrhage

Saving from many vicious outrages

 Various factors battle like saviors

Armed to the teeth like kindly  warriors

Every drop is of great value

To every life a tender rescue

 The dues to all one’s life’s credit

Blood the precious seraphic gift

 Truly priceless and truly great

Betters health the more you donate

 The only way to gift a life

Sans sacrificing one’s own life!

…

My brother-in-law Jimmy sent me snaps via WhatsApp. 

A request by DR. A K Sharma
PLEASE INTRODUCE AND PROMOTE

Happy Holi 2018 Mount Abu

Happy Holi 2018 From The Abode of Gods

FULL WORM MOON.

The Full Worm moon signifies the advent of spring. It’s at this time of the year that the earth starts to soften and earthworm casts appear, inviting the birds to celebrate the beginning of new life.

This Full moon is very significant on our continent as it ushers in the festival of colour in our wonderful country India. Holi is the Hindu spring festival. Folks celebrate this day by colouring each other with coloured powder of many hues. 

MARCH FULL MOOS 2018.

Click this or the Snap

DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THE QUIZ!

I took this snap Last night FULL MOON March 2018

Bear Walk Mount Abu

Sloth Bear walk Mount Abu

On the 7 Feb 2018, one week before Valentine's day, my grandson Keith and his friend Dev recorded this bear walk between Veer Bapjee temple and the Orio checkpoint, while driving to Guru Shikari. Video kind favour of dudes, Keith and Dev.

The IUCN includes as Vulnerable the sloth bear because of habitat loss and poaching. After the last census a few years ago,  they estimated about 350 sloth bears in Mt Abu. To read more on Abu bears refer to my earlier posts.