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    Eye Brow Oct 24

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    the Eye Brow are two paths that go out from above the school in two directions, relatively flat but winding along the mountain. And very narrow. The railing is new

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    Edgehill

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    Council Rock where we stayed for 3 months while my father was the Doctor at Landour Community Hospital. The stone walls have been whitewashed

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    there use to be a steep foot path going down the hill near CR that is completely over grown

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    Community Center. Aunt Dorothy use to have a community library in the right door and we use to have dances in the upstairs

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    use to be Singh's and Skillman' houses

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    my right toe started hurting from all this down hill walking, do since this path was well paved i walked a bit without my shoe

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    cutting weeds

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    monsoon always creates landslides

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    OK Tata

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    oh yes and the sun came out a little this afternoon

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    Another Reflection From Doris Hahn's Journal 1910

    india-2013 Research Ancestors: Journal
    "Doris" Voss went to India at age 18 from Germany. After a few years there she married Ferdinand Hahn. In 1906 Ferdinand, my great great grandfather, became ill. In 1910 they went up to Mussoorie so he  would recover. She writes in her journal: " The weather was wonderfully warm and friendly, and he recovered rapidly, so that we were able to take daily long walks and enjoy thoroughly the glorious views up the mountains and down the slopes. He liked especially to walk to the cemetery where he could rest on a bench by the gate."
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    She continues (Maria is a fellow worker who also went to Mussoorie to recover):  "When Sister Marie once said to him out of a feeling of personal weakness and in view of the many graves: “I do not know what the Lord is planning for us, whether we will find here our final resting place”, he looked at her with big eyes and said: “May the Lord prevent this, no! We are hoping to get well here in Mussourie, to be sure, and to return to our work in Purulia strengthened.” For as much as he used to talk about dying and going home, now he wanted to live and work! And no thought came to me that his end would be so near. How often did he suffer, and God had always given him new strength and health. "
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    found this old picture, likely late 1800, from Mussoorie Medley, still looks much the same

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    Happy Birthday

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    Happy Birthday to my parents this week. Miss you. I know you are with me in spirit

    93 and 89 and are strong in spirit and mind
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    Two Sophisticated Ladies Took A Walk In The Hills

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    Yes! We walked up that steep foot path

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    with my new cane

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    from this angle it just doesn't show how steep and rugged the path truly is

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    while we could have taken this one easy path

    So we took the road less travelled...well...it was locked. So what difference does it make?
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    look what they've done to my house!! Buona Vista is now that green complex up on top

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    Sisters Bazaar

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    I would live here just yo be able to have a dog like this (bhutia).
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    chai before it began to rain

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    and end the day with the best pbj sandwich ever

    Oct 19