Cow dung to fuel converter

Just as our LPG gas for cooking was running low, a man walked through our front gate about three weeks ago and asked me if I was interested in getting a gobar gas tank installed.

I immediately agreed to the terms, which was that we pay for the bricks, sand cement and stone chips and they pay for the Labour, the gas line and connections and provide a bio-gas stove.

The two workers stayed at our place for 5 days and practically worked for 10 hours in the hot sun until the tank was done.

I was very impressed how fast this man could do this job.

Now all we had to do was fill the tank with an equal amount of cow dung and water. For the gas to keep flowing, it needs two buckets of dung and two buckets of water per day. We have no problem with that. Our cows kindly provide the dung for free to us.

Gobar gas is produced by mixing cow dung with water & making it into slurry. This slurry is then kept in the fermentation tank were it is acted upon by anaerobic bacteria in the absence of oxygen. After 15 to 30 days methane would be produced.

Yesterday, for the first time, I prepared our Lunch on the new Bio-gas stove. The flame we are getting is very high compared to the conventional butane gas from the bottle. This makes fast cooking.

A cow is arching its tail. It’s about to do…what?

It’s about to produce the rest-of-India LPG cylinder.

Bug-proof, water proof, plaster for walls and floors.

We’re talking dung here. Not waste, but wealth:

Cheap, available, unavoidable.

Cows are very useful animals.

Hare Krishna!

Love,

Mama

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I Officiated A Lesbian Wedding This Weekend!

This past weekend I officiated my friend Lorena and Jennifer's commitment ceremony. It was not legally recognized by the state, but was a wonderful celebration of their love for each other. Julien helped in the ceremony as well. He was the chocolate bearer, to help with the chocolate mixing ceremony, a tasty twist to the sand mixing ceremony.

Here Julien is with my boyfriend Brent. They are best friends.

Thanks Mom for the colorful Indian threads, they worked great for the ceremony.

It was a beautiful ceremony. The sun even came out just as they exchanged rings.

just a progress update.

Render not finished, and some changes still need to be made, but whatever.

Purple? what purple?

My schoolwork

Some of you may have been wondering what I've been doing all this time, so I've decided to post some pictures of what I've been working on. It's a 3d model of a VW EOS:

Mutti, your Grandmother

Hare Krishna!

This morning i received a sad letter from Andreas. I am pasting it here. It basically sais that mutti has reached her final days. She is not sick, but is suffering the inevedable old age that we all some day have to face. Mutti is no longer accepting any food and is shaking all over her body. Mutti is now 84 years old.

Love,

Mama

Hi,

als ich den Arzt fragte was man denn machen kann, weil Sie nichts isst .. sagte er "zwingt Sie nicht zum essen, denn der Wille muss von Ihr selber kommen und dann soll sie mehr trinken .." - jetzt bekommt SieVitamalz und Traubensaft .. aber sie isst nur wenige Häppchen am Tag.als ich den Arzt fragte, ob man was gegen das ständige unkontrollierte Zittern an den Händen, vom Kopf, der Beine usw machen kann . sagte er,es sei eine normale alterserscheinung.am Ende meiner vielen fragen hat der Arzt eine kleine Batterie ausseiner Hosentasche gezogen und sagte mir "diese kleine Batterie warviele Jahre in meinem Handy und sie hat immer gut funktioniert .. nunist Sie alt und ist nach wenigen Minuten aufgebraucht .. "Wir leben die Situation jeden Tag und leider wird es immer ernster !Mutti ist nicht krank, sie ist alt .. und wird jeden Tag älter!Wenn der eine oder andere von Euch auch keine Zeit/Geld/Möglichkeithaben sie zu besuchen, so kann man sie praktisch jederzeit anrufen:+49-5321-658311 oder +49-160-2561997Ich lege mal eine Foto bei, dass ich heute abend gemacht habe ..Gruss

Picture time

Ok, this is my first blog posting, and I don't know what to write, so I'm just gonna post a bunch of pictures with captions.

These are the deities here in Kolkata. It's an HDR shot, so there's less shadowing.

The ghost car......

This was the train conditions on my way to Kolkata, I had to give up my plans on getting off at the stop that had the metro station, and get off at the last one instead.

This is a composite image of about 20 lightning pictures that I took. I think it looks rather impressive myself.

This is the leaning tower of Kolkata. if you look closely, you'll notice that the building on the opposite side of the street (the red one) is leaning slightly in the other direction.

The majestic hawk. I rather like the guy, but the feeling is not mutual.

That's all for right now.

Twins 6-8 months snapshots

Hi everyone! The twins are 8 months old! Can you believe it?  They are amazing and growing every day and learning so much!

Just a few recent milestones:

- They are both crawling all over the place. Sascha knows the edge of the bed and stops but we still have to watch Simon carefully cause he will crawl right off the edge.

- Both of them can pull themselves to standing, Sascha can drop back down and move around as she pleases. Simon sort of stays there and doesn't not how to get back down yet but he is almost there.

- Simon has his first tooth! It is the bottom right front and it is not fully white and visible but you can feel it!

- Sascha started saying "ma ma" but not clear if she is referring to me or not. She also says "da da" and they both make lots and lots of babbling noises with now at least 2 consonant sounds.

- Sascha "clicks" her tongue. A great language exerciser.

- They are eating some "finger food" now - cheerios (just a couple to keep them occupied) and teething cookies.

 I don't have much time these days to go through all the photos we take daily but I did grab some while importing that are just too cute to not share. Enjoy!

Twins 6-8 Months

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's day Mom, we send our love from Boulder. Thank you for all that you have given us. You are our hero and have shown us the strength that we need to get through life. We are forever in your debt.

,Nama Chintamani Krishna Illo

Happy Elephant Reunion