The Day After Nemo.

The day after Nemo we woke up to a cold room with a view to endless stretches of snow.....

^^ our neighborhood as it appeared from our apartment windows.....

^^ with no electricity since the previous night, Saturday morning the room temperatures had dropped to 52 degree F. so dressed in his fur suit we let Pradyot play while we attended to the household chores .. taking breaks every few minutes to take a peek through the windows...

^^ it was then that i spotted the blue jay back in our backyard...  perched on that branch outside.. it looked as pretty as ever.. but it too couldn't take the gusts of cold air for long.. so it flew away soon after.

^^by noon  with all four stoves boiling water full-time, the room temperatures had reached 62 degrees F. and since the kitchen felt like the most comfortable corner around, I busied myself cooking some fine dishes.. while Nishi went down with his spade to join our neighbors clear the tracks that had gathered about three feet of snow.. and dig out our car from the snow....

^^by two when a considerable amount of snow had been cleared he was glad to find a meal of fries and stewed veggies laid  out for lunch... Beer Battered Asparagus Pakoda and a bengali veggy mix with a face-lift so that it would resemble Ratatuollie a bit ... 

^^ since Nishi wanted Pradyot to feel the snow... so after lunch we all went out for a while. the sun was shining bright... and with the reflection from the snow it hurt our eye... but our boy cared for none of that... he was happy to be out. walking slipping and sliding .. all the time giggling and laughing and rejoicing his brand new experience of being in the snow ...  it was amazing to see how much he enjoyed himself out there.....  but we did stay out long.  because soon after our eyes and noses started watering and we did not want to risk it further... so we returned to our darkening apartment and after a quick-fix-early-dinner retired to the warmth of the quilts and the blankets in the bed....