Seen while walking home Saturday: a car with blinkers ( Read more... )

This was a low-key Shabbat for me, because Dani went ( Read more... )

Busy weekend!
( Simchat Torah )

Coronation was Saturday, and local, so we went. ( Read more... )

Wow. It appears that it takes even longer to get military mail out of Iraq than it takes to get it in. A friend is a marine who was stationed there for several months. (He came home two weeks ago.) I wrote to him several times while he was there. Today's mail brought a letter dated April 30; it was a reply to a letter I sent in March. ( Read more... )

We got home early enough that I was able to pick up my ( Read more... )

Saturday morning's Torah study was very interesting. I'm planning to write more about that separately, later.

Saturday evening was ralphmelton and lorimelton's party. I had a lot of fun chatting with people (and eating yummy food). The mix was a little different from their last few parties -- more neighbors, fewer co-workers, and few SCA people. I guess most of ( Read more... )

Today's "Friday five" looks like one I'll do, but likely not on Friday. Too busy. Sorry; you'll have to wait ( Read more... )

This shabbat my rabbi was away with the confirmation class on a retreat. I don't know which rabbi had the bigger handfull -- him with 20 or so teenagers, or the other rabbi with back-to-back services and a double b'not mitzvah (twin girls) Saturday morning. :-) I wonder what we did before we had a second rabbi.
Last week I shared my comments on ( Read more... )

Friday night was another dinner for the 20s/30s group ( Read more... )