The Extended Family- part 5

                                         

                          Auf wiedersehen my friends    

     I have come to the end of  our extended family. I am surprised and happy to receive so many comments.This indicates how much our extended family were a part of all of us and how much they were loved by us.

      I had purposely left out some savoury tidbits for the end. Len had the amazing ability to catch a bird in his mouth and drop it in front of you completely unharmed. Of course the bird was scared out of its wits. Len could sprint very fast. The only problem was his habit of catching chickens from our neighbour's pen and bringing them home. Then there was Pug doing his job and a pig cleaning his behind when suddenly  he realised that a pig was behind and ran home  into the bedroom.Vasanta made a big wired playpen for Pug so that he could play. Pug hated being left outside and worked out that he could jump over the fence if he went a long way back and dashed and jumped over the fence.He made his way inside to the comfort of the living room.Then there was Kamini taking Pug for a walk on a leash blissfully unaware that Pug had managed to free himself and run off. Lucky after being tormented by our neighbour's Alsatian suddenly snarled and chased him into his house.

   They gave us a lot of joy and happiness and mental solace. When we were down a look at their wagging tails and smiling faces bucked us up. Ask Aditi, Rohan,Viswanath, Sekar ,Kamini and Ambika. Some times friends tell Vasanta and me to have another extended family member and we are tempted. Then realities catches up with us. We live with our memories of kind hearted relatives who gave us a lot expecting nothing in return.

Comments

[Sekar]

Thanks for bringing back all the memories!

[Kamini]

So moving and heart-warming. A lovely end to a lovely series. This will be enjoyed and cherished by all generations.

[Raja Ramakrishnan]

Heard from you at last! Thanks for the comment.Look for 'Inlaws and outlaws"
series.lots of love appa

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM, wrote:

[Ambika]

A lovely series...just finished it!