We are BMD (Overseas Version)

In the beginning, there is a hole.

 

2012

Read More: Our Doha What/Why

 

Sketches, designs, plans, backhoes, shovels, guys wearing hard hats, Ed, Garth.

 

Mumtaz Ed

(شكرا لتتحدث اللغة عربية معي، أد)

 

Garth and his canine groupies

 

Twelve hour days, six day work weeks, paper, diagrams, traffic. Cranes, yellow vests, steel toed boots, sweaty-tee-shirt-onsite-walkabouts, chickens.

 

 

chicken coop overlooking the jobsite

Yes, really

Read More: The Sheikha and the Chickens

 

Golf vacations, safari adventures. Coffee mornings, beach and museum outings, dune bashing, Inland Sea. Dancing, rugby, tennis, music.


musical bonfire at the Singing Dunes
our first weekend in Doha
thanx Curtis & Mary




 





Read More: Click to hear Esther sing the Doha expat classic, It's Gonna Be a Bright Doha Day

 

BMD baby (courtesy Mike and Tracy Sartain, thanks, guys!) born in Qatar.

The "Doha Six" lends a hand. Cats, dogs, golf, visa runs, camel rides. Short drives made long by oppressive, depressive traffic. Villa parties, "Roooox-anne!" Club meetings, language classes, lunches, play dates. Adorable children, heartbreaking loss.

 

Barbecue Rob cuddles Baby T

 

Our company "family" here flows, shifts and changes like, well - dunes in the desert (the following photos are non-inclusive and in no particular order; no captions because you know who you are; click to view a larger image):



































  



work, live and play side by side: a special kind of team building

Meanwhile, there is more paper. Meetings. Closed roads, expanded holes, bigger trucks loaded with concrete and steel. Cranes go up, cranes come down.

 

2013

same hole: floor or ceiling?

 

Football and potluck parties. Guess Who's Coming to Ramadan Lunch. Turkey Central, British place, Egyptian Chicken, $5 meals, $13 tanks of gas, Fudd's Thursday.

 

 

Family visits, Dubai, Oman, Greece, Italy, Africa; around the world adventure. But in the end (of this post), just as the beginning, it's all about the hole:

 

2014

big hole fillin' up

 

Read More: BMD Blogger Links (click here to  submit a link to add your travelling BMD family's blog to this list)

 

The Sartain Family: http://thesartainfamily.blogspot.com/

The Bahr Family: http://theebbahrfamily.blogspot.com/

Dawn Mikus: http://atravelersfeast.com/

Matt Mikus: http://postcardsandplaylists.com/

Samantha and Cesar Vidal: http://thevidalsabroad.blogspot.com/

Gonna Be a Bright, Bright Doha Day

Temperatures in Doha may reach 119F today, this first Friday of Ramadan. Ouch!   As a special (inside day) treat, I share (with permission) the most wonderful Esther Popp Myers singing "I Can See Clearly Now" (popularly known as "Bright Doha Day"), words by Melissa, music by Esther:

(forgive the videographer, just enjoy the music!)

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW
(Bright Doha Day)

I can see clearly now the (dust) is gone
I can see construction that's in my way
Gone are the dust storms that made me blind...

It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.
It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.

I think I can make it now the maid is here
All of the piles of laundry have disappeared
Ordered that shwarma I've been longing for...

It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.
It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.

Look all around there's nothing but white thobes!
Look straight ahead ... nothing but black robes!

Gettin' my business done... In sha allah
Just made a call, Q-Tel is on their way
Waited at Carrefour till the cows came home...

It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.
It's gonna be a bright, bright Doha day.