1) I offered to barter a woman garb for something to be named later. Does anyone have great recommendations (links to patterns)for starter garb that is easy to make? I am also unsure what to ask for, as she offered beading (which my grandmother does & I'd be yelled at if I accepted the work of another beader), artwork (drawing or painting) or ( Read more... )

So I took the assorted etrogim I've been given, and chopped them last night. They filled the 5 L jug to capacity. We estimate close packing to be .64. This means that 64% was stuff and 36% was air. Ok, so I divided it between two 5 L jugs. Added 1.5 Kg of honey and 150 g of yeast between the two jugs, divided as evenly as I could manage. ( Read more... )

I found the following line in Hoshanot this morning: Kol m'vaser m'vaser v'omer. (The voice of the herald heralds and says). There was a little squee! I can now say Herald in Hebrew.

William at Linden
M'vaser Ma'ale Giborim

Dear all and sundry ( Read more... )

I was looking at a friend's photo wherein she had a spoon on her nose. I realized that there are no silly people in yeshiva. OK, there's one truly silly person. Everyone is so serious. Which is great, but I miss the people with the sort of silly/serious switch who can be seriously intellectual or extremely silly with equal ease. I got quite a ( Read more... )

This was an email to my folks & Rivka, so now I'm posting it. An update was needed, and lots of LJ folks in the story, at least the first one.

I wanted to write about last Shabbat, but that didn't happen, so I'm doing it now. Last Shabbat I stayed at joshbrown & mick_hale's place. They are two guys I know from my medieval recreation group (SCA for those who know ( Read more... )

So how does a yeshiva boy make good use of 4 day weekend in celebration of the Festival of Lights? Clearly by dressing up as a charachter from the Middle Ages, stabbing his host with a sword, and serving piping hot lemonade to a feast hall. How else?

So I had to be on a bus to zachkessin and kmelion's by noon on Friday. Friday morning was thus spent runnng ( Read more... )

I was at work this morning before 8:30. This is pretty usual. I'm still there. Just puched out (8:38 PM), so as you can tell, its been a long day. And I spent most of it doing something I later had to undo. This company needs to decide what it's doing so that I don't waste my morning and half my afternoon doing something I'll have to delete. ( Read more... )

I had a dream the other day about shooting bows and arrows. So I thought,, Hey, that'd be lots of fun. Rebecca and people have been talking to me for a while about the Society for Creative Anachronism, and I decided to join. I emailed my local welcome wagon person...still no response. So I've been reading about SCA for newbies all day yesterday ( Read more... )