Week Ending September 8, 2019

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Birthday celebrations and idols for Durgha Puja - make the idols, perform puja (do worship) and then bathe them, usually by dunking them into a sacred river - Yamuna, Ganga . . . today for environment reasons they make ponds around the city for the purpose of bathing the idols . . .

Elder Skidmore and I celebrated birthdays, he l'enfante at 62 years aur mera puraana hoon! (and I'm old) at 70!



 
 Packaging baby blankets made by Jeanette and the sisters for donation to a newborn unit in Rishikesh

Makers of the idols for the Durgha Puja, near the Palam Flyover, just a few blocks from our apartment
 Hand molds - 
 Face molds -
 Toe molds
Finished - waiting for their paint jobs

Jeanette proselyting with Sisters Matheshu and Meenakshi Muthu in Munirka

More help with the baby blankets in our apartment - 
 Sister Shakuntla and Sister Hansen

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