Monday 21 June 2010

FATHER'S DAY




We celebrated Fathers'day yesterday together with our elderly friends.We took them to a small cafe by the dam lake to have tea .We have been friends since our college years. ( almost forty years ago.)Their children are living far so we thought it would be a good idea to be with them on this special occasion. They were very pleased that we shared our time with them. We were also happy to talk about our memorible times in Erzurum where I studied English at the university.

CARPETS

Adana is the city I live in and it is in the south Turkey. People go to the seaside or to the mountains to spend the hottest time of the Summer . I listened to many stories about moving to the mountain houses that I will mention to you later.

I thought , when I went to my usual early morning walks, those hanging carpets at the balkonies looked strange if you looked at them as a foreigner.

When the weather gets warmer ,most people clean the carpets or have them washed and hang them out in the balkonies to get well dried in the sun then they put moth balls in them before the carperts have been rolled up and put in a special cupboards or corners in homes.I do the same of course because you can not bare to see anything laid on the floors in the heat .So that you can see many different carpets at the balkonies,some made by hands some not,some are colourful some are plain.

It is possible to guess what type of people they are at a glance to the carpets hanging down from their balkonies.Can you guess by looking at the picture?

Monday 14 June 2010

SMILING AT NINETY!

My mother -in-law is always pozitive thinking elderly.I have never heard her saying something bad about something even bad.She expects to be much better and cook or run about in the house as she used to do years ago.She has been looked after very well and she loves to tell her memories and never gets tired.The only difficulty is if she does not remember a word she forgets the rest of the story. she has 8 children and 19 grandchildren and 10 great-granddaughters and great -grandsons.She has managed with life succesfuly.Don't you think so?I am sure her prayers are also for me .
I hope I visit you many more weekends Elif Anne.

EYLÜL AT THE AIRPORT&MORE PİCTURES











I LOVE YOU LÜLÜM

Thursday 10 June 2010






You can see how happy she is in the pictures.







Ha Ha she does not know what to do next.








Drawing lesson with granddad.


Doesn't she look funny with my eyeglasses?

BEING GRANNIE OF EYLÜL

Parenting my granddaughter Eylül was a great joy for both of us.She was a brave little girl who came to visit us by plane without her parents at the age of two and a half year.She easily accepted living with us causing no problem althought it was her first visit.She was as if she were living together with us for a long time. Taking her out the park,to a cafe or restaurant,watching her eating ice-cream ,shortly being with her was a great happiness for me(grannie) and for her granddad.She brought sunshine to our life.
She is a self-confident matured little girl like her mother was. I still hear her joyous screams while playing with her new friends here!
I hope to be with her for long years and watch her grow well.