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This week’s blog is early because the shavuot holiday starts tonight, and perforce my computers will remain untouched…
The nasty ivy infestation I’ve been banging on about for a month is almost entirely vanquished! How it started, and how it’s going.
The planters seen in the second pic are hanging from bits I welded onto the frame. I’d never done any “arc-welding” before; my last welding job used oxy-acetylene over four decades ago. I can tell you this sort takes a lot of practice to get right! I’m still unsure whether the structure is as solid as it should be; fortunately, we’ve got periodic strong winds here which will let me know right quick.
Various:
- Mallen Baker discusses the 1.5 degree climate warming point, and whether or not it’s coming soon.
- US social contagion is spreading to our neck of the woods.
- Environmentalists are why we can’t have good things.
- After considerable public outrage, CNN host Christiane Amanpour “apologizes” for her (outrageous) statement of a few weeks back. Apparently Alan Dershowitz is going to sue CNN on behalf of the Dee family.
- On stopping the demonization of Israel’s “ḥaredim”.
Bonus time: this week’s parasha, read in the Yemenite style (highlighting each pasuq as it’s read). Do you find it difficult to follow?
It’s supposed to become quite hot over yom-ṭov and particularly on shabbat, though cooling to average temps beginning of the week.
We’ve got quite a bit to prepare, so I’ll just tantalize you with our shabbat and yom-ṭov menu:
home-made ḥalla,
salmon,
sweet potatoes,
salad,
cheesy pasta,
zucchini pashtida,
more salads,
fesenjan chicken and saffron rice,
gnocchi with mushroom ragu,
salmon the second,
various other salatim,
tiramisu,
2X pareve sherbets1,
and 2X dairy ice-creams2.
Any dietary reckoning has been postponed to Sunday, in accordance with The Rules™.
Until next time,
ḥag sameaḥ and shabbat shalom!
1 coffee and strawberry
2 dulce-de-leche/banana and chocolate
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