Day 112 of Our Winter: Today's entry is really short. I am trying to soak in the sights and sounds around the Minuwangoda house to take back with me as a souvenir of our winter. We have used Sri Lanka as a base for our travels this winter. The activity is working and I'm focusing on the noisy birds, the interesting fauna, and the cultural background of living in a jungle so near the international airport.
I have been coming to this home since 1986. It was new then and it has changed a lot over the years through updates and a changing local environment. If one adds up all the time spent in the house, it is well over a year of my life. (That is something I'll have to double check in order to have more precise measurement.) I'm a data collector and it is the type of thing I have access to. Most folks simply, "Can't Remember."
It struck me as ironic that I'm leaving the garden here. Even though it takes nearly three weeks for us to return home with a cruise voyage along the way, we will get home to a location where we'll be waiting for leaves to appear. It is leaving an abundance and arriving at a continuing deficit.
CORRECTION: I found some accurate data in a previous eJournal entry. At the end of the last visit, the total number of months spent in Sri Lanka stood at 19.5. During this trip we have been residents for three of the total four month stay. Therefore, at 22.5 months, I'm much closer to having stayed on this island, the size of Ireland, for two years!