This one is small.
Food is scarce for them due to extremely dry and hot weather not due to Putin's War of Words and Guns.
Only place they can breed is my fish tanks.
She was going for the rooftop.
Bad idea since my plants pots are dry and have only two buckets which are used to propagate Vallisneria.
Vallisneria also slowly die.
Frogs need clean water for laying eggs.
The seventh guy mentioned above was not in the
original six but we jumped a ride to Kandy city in the car which came
to pick him.
They were from the south who came to Kandy for
business and never went back. They bought land in Haragama which is
where our last king escaped from Kandy from British capture on his way
to Mada Maharuwara (where he was captured eventually).
It is fitting to end this chapter with a real story.
Three
of us were invited for the house warming ceremony. We were broke those
days and we decided to walk from Gurudeniya to Haragama (Haragama means a
tunnel dug under a steep hill).
We assumed it was a little walk but found it daunting and we reached there at 1PM, an hour late.
Luckily for us, the sumptuous lunch was not ready and we had one hour to refresh with sweat pouring underneath our clothes.
Additionally
one of the three chunky bars of chocolates we decided to eat and not
donate as a gift. It would look like one has not contributed to the
simple gift. We never told him this story and it was top secret and
before I kicked the bucket it should be recorded somewhere, for
posterity.
