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- December 28, 2008: Visit Jacksonville-Florida Beaches
- December 26, 2008: Indian Tsunami 2004 Anniversary
- December 14, 2008: வாரம் ஒரு தேவாரம்
- December 6, 2008: Ramayanam Performance at Fairview Middle School
- December 1, 2008: 20th World AIDS Day Service
- November 28, 2008: Family get together at Thanksgiving
- November 16, 2008: Appreciation Dinner for ACT Members
- November 15, 2008: Cultural Glimpses of India 2008 (Tallahassee, FL)
- November 7, 2008: Walking with dinosaurs live
- November 5, 2008: New used-car Hyundai Sonata
Boghi Festival - Precursor to the Pongal Festival
Bogi or Boghi Festival
Monday, January 14, 2008
Tallahassee, FL 32317
We started to clean our house on Sunday in order to prepare for the Bogi and Pongal festivals that are on Monday, January 14, and 15, 2008 respectively. Since this was the second week after we reached US from our vacation to India, it gave another reason to throw away old items and clean the house.
Historically the day before and the day of Bogi we cleaned our house at Vedaraniam and occasionally even white-washed it during that week. Usual cleaning meant removing cob-web (ottadai adipathu), deep sweeping the brick floors, then washing it with plenty of well water. Going up the attic and throwing away old magazines, newspapers, and other stuff.
So we more or less did the same thing except there were not that many cob-webs to clean out. We collected old clothes for donation, we did lots of laundry, we swept and moped the wooden floor and tiles at our home. We also did pooja with VTS doing the aarathi with incense stick. Then we ate sweet pongal and vadai.