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Yet another very busy week! We managed to do more work on the kitchen, a fair amount of gardening, cleaned (most) downstairs windows and replaced screens on some of them as well as the screen-door. Did a ton more shopping and now, I’m happy to say, the “worst” is over!
Those of you who’ve known us for some time know we enjoy our wine. We’ve got friends who are far more particular about the wines they consume, but this fellow has a whole post about what wines he’ll use for which of the four cups of the seder. I’m not that finicky, but I refuse to drink the syrup sold as “kiddush wine”!
We’ll have friends staying with us for shabbat and yom-ṭov: two couples from out of town. So getting the accommodations in order has taken up some portion of our energies. I think we’re done; but if not, well, the guests will just have to suck it up!
Among the wilds:
- The four conversations about Zionism (Dealing with Schroedinger's Zionist).
- Uri on the Quantum History of Palestine. And another Uri on the man who killed 10001 people.
- Gen-Z are discovering it’s possible to make your own coffee.
- Townsends: “a pound of meat” - soldiers’ rations in the 1700s.
- Pat Condell is laughing at the lady-men.
The Trump Tariffs are on! Wait, no, the tariffs are off! Aargh, we don’t know anything!!! However, one guy wonders if the tariffs might not be good for Israel in that they might cause our food monopolies to break up or be competitive. One can hope.
Doves decided to become intimate in our entrance, above the electric cabinet. So we emplaced spikes to dissuade their romance, but they found another nesting place. We then had to bring out the big guns. So far, it seems to be working!
We had planned on eating shabbat meals outside so we could have the seder table set up and ready; and also, to keep ḥametz out of our house for the first two meals of shabbat. However, it looks like the weather will be uncooperative: cold and possibly drizzly. So we’re uncertain what we’ll do, but food will be involved.
This shabbat is erev-pesaḥ; so we’ve got shabbat, and immediately afterwards the seder. So on the menu:
For shabbat:
pita,
chicken soup,
meatballs and rice,
gefilte fish,
baked fish,
BBQ chicken,
broccoli kugel,
various salatim,
and cookies.
For the seder:
matzah!,
lots of wine!!,
two kinds of ḥaroset,
huevos haminados,
gravlax,
seder vegetables,
baked chicken,
roasted beef with carrot tzimmes,
roasted carrots,
roasted beets,
potato kugel,
and various desserts.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom and ḥag pesaḥ kasher vesameaḥ!
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