"Is this the bumble bee outfit?" Someone asked me. "Yes, the Madhuvrata, the honey bee" It is because the bees are black along with the trim. They wear this dress on the new moon when the Deities wear black, but SGM told us not to dress them in all black so this is the closest they have. The gardenias made their appearance in the center of the garlands today as well as being offered at the mangala and sandhya aratis.
As i waited in the driveway from the asram i saw so many cars it made me think to myself "where do they all come from" i must have been thinking too loudly 'cause the next driver, who must have been a long lost granddaughter of an English Lady, leaned out her car window and said "the old soquel road is closed today!" That made it necessary to dodge in and out of cars and construction everywhere the whole pedaling time today. Some how i was able to make it in good time today.
The apprentice sprained his thumb to nearly the breaking point yesterday so this evening O dear doe didn't have him there to wrap the chodders in novel ways just the standard version of the ancient priest