Jackfruit

Gag... it's hot today.  How's it going, Honey?  I hope you're feeling great, because I love you so much.  I'm quite used to living life on my own, but I certainly want to share my life with you.  I would share some sweet fruit with you, do you like tropical fruit?  I don't have a sweet tooth like my Mom, but sometimes I enjoy sweet fruit.  There are 2 types of jackfruit trees on the compound: "nangka" and "cempedak".  The second type is sweeter, in a sickly sweet way, and that's what we have today.  The only certain way to know a jackfruit is ready for picking is by smelling it.  I was trimming down a starfruit tree that was overwhelmed with vines, which is right next to the jackfruit tree behind my house.  There is only one fruit on that tree this year: it was hanging just above my head, and I could smell it when I was operating the chainsaw.  But when I took it down, I couldn't smell it anymore.  There were some peck marks on the shell, so I guess the birds were fooled too: they could smell it, but when they pecked at it, the fruit was bitter.  So I left the fruit on my porch, perhaps it needed more time to mature.  Yesterday evening, the smell returned, so I opened it up, removed the fleshy seeds, and put them in the cooler.  I offered some to my Mom as there was a lot of it, but she didn't want it as I had kept it in the cooler.  She's fussy.

Happy 4th of July, by the way!  That's a sexy swimsuit Natty, and you sure look good in it.  I do hope you realize that you're going to have to cut down on your showing off after we are married inshaAllah.  Kids.  Global and spiritual politics.

Hi Pina!  I'm not mad at you, Sweetie.  How can I be?

Qur'an 20170706

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

84.  If any do good, the reward to him is better than his deed, but if any do evil, the doers of evil are only punished of their deeds.

85.  Verily God Who ordained the Qur'an for you, will bring you back to the Place of Return.  Say, "My Lord knows best who it is that brings true guidance, and who is in manifest error."

86.  And you did not expect that the Book would be sent to you except as a Mercy from your Lord.  Therefore, lend not your support in any way to those who reject.

The Narrations  28:84-86
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Cat food politics

That Doutzen is one naughty kitty.  I try hard to be patient and gentle with my cats (and all of them are spoiled brat cats), but last night I had to give Doutzen a big old smack.  Let me tell you what happened...

As you know, Floofy can't eat the dried cat food pellets.  That cat food blocks her system, gives her severe constipation, and almost killed her.  So I've been cooking up food especially for her, with a high water content to combat the constipation.  Recently I made a sort of fish smoothie, made out of half a kilo of bigeye (bigeye has small guts and besides, it was cheap that day), a cup of rice and lots of water.  I removed the guts then threw everything into a pot and cooked it until everything was soft.  Then I blended the lot, bones and all, into a smoothie.  Hey, it looks like a strawberry shake!  Floofy loves the stuff and as a bonus, after being frozen and defrosted the stuff turns into a cake.  Weird.  Anyway, I was washing the tupperware in which I kept the stuff while Doutzen was at my feet, being her usual noisy self.  Then she sprayed me (she had never done that before) on my sarong, and reached up and stuck a claw in my knee.  Ow!  I didn't do anything to deserve that!  I was holding the tupperware lid at the time, so I smacked her with it.  I supposed she wanted a taste of her mother's food, but I don't let her mother eat her food!  Isn't that fair?  I guess next time I'll let her lick the container, but the rest of the stuff has turned into cake, so that would be pointless for now.

Pina, I don't have wealth enough to be married right now.  When I do get the money inshaAllah, I will marry Erin first, Natty second, and you last.  InshaAllah.  I will build a house for each of you, before I marry you.  If this is too slow for you, then I have no right to hold you back from getting something else that's faster.  All I ask is that you wait and keep your chastity.  Please know that I cannot be married to a non-Muslim, so I ask that all of you prepare yourselves emotionally and mentally for that.  If you think Pina that you are a servant, then know that I am a servant: a servant of God, so my wife is a servant of God as well.  It doesn't mean that we won't be wealthy and respected, it means that we will carry the rank of servants.

Top of the mountain

And feeling sleepy.  Oh, how nice to sleep.  Took my Dad to the hospital to have a tooth removed.  Waited for him by the old water tower.  Water, water.  Death ants in my drinking water.  How could that water be sweet?  So many people at the hospital.  Rush.  What a horrible place the hospital is...  So frightening, they won't allow photos.  Such a hot morning.  Fell asleep at the foot of the gazebo by the old water tower.

Qur'an 20170704

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

71.  Say, "Do you see?  If Allah were to make the night perpetual over you to the Day of Judgement, what god is there other than Allah, who can give you enlightenment?  Will you not then hearken?"

72.  Say, "Do you see?  If Allah were to make the day perpetual over you to the Day of Judgement, what god is there other than Allah, who can give you a night in which you can rest?  Will you not then see?"

73.  It is out of God's Mercy that God had made for you night and day, that you may rest therein, and that you may seek of God's Grace, and in order that you may be grateful.

The Narrations 28:71-73
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Hi Honey

How are you feeling today, my love?  There's nothing much to report today.  We must be grateful for the mundane, because it can really get exhausting when one gets hammered everyday.  I woke up at 5 am.  I don't really like mornings but I have been running out of time lately, so I wake up early, do the morining worship, then try to get as much done in the garden before the sun kicks in.  I planted an "inai" tree today, after the chores.  I trimmed the roses after cleaning up after the cats, watering the plants, and blowing dust out of my house.  Then I retreated into the air conditioning and had an early lunch.  Ooooh, it's time for a nap before voice training.

Natty, I don't mind the cold so much so it would be comfortable for me to be in Canada.  But I've already chosen to root here.  It hardly ever gets cold around here, so Northern women must love the weather here.  Me, I need the A/C to be happy.

Hi Pina!

Fish smoothie

Hi Erin, how are you?  Please don't be mad at me, because I love you.  I love my wife.  Sorry I'm late today.  My parents have been out of town.  They spent the Eid at my sister's home at the nation's capitol, and I went to pick them up at the airport just now.  I hope you're feeling great, Sweetie.  The world is at your feet, so please enjoy.

Hi Canada!  How are you, ambassador?  I made a fish smoothie for Floofy last night.  You wanna try some?

Hi Pina!  How's the tummy?