Well, I am just now recovering from the second bout of stomach virus in just two weeks. Ugh. No more about that. Only this: please, no more viruses!
We have just completed something of a spring cleaning around here (it is spring here, after all!) on a cold and rainy day. Really, the impetus was the imminent arrival of a brother and sister pair of friends of Jonah and Aviva, Matias and Celeste. They are, by all accounts, very nice kids and happen to live a block away (with six other siblings!). So, we all hope it goes well.
We went to shul yesterday to find a little more than a minyan there on Shabbat Shuvah. We had a nice time completing the circle that links most Jewish people in the world to Carol Weinbaum, within about two degrees of separation. It turns out that her good friend Harriet Rosen has become good friends with one of the two rabbis at Bet El, Silvina Chemen. We had a nice talk and we let be known that Ruthie wants to be a rabbi. Silvina kindly offered to sit down and provide some advice, perhaps a few years from now.
Aviva and I spent the afternoon at the Jumbo and then the Easy, better described as Home Depot. We took Uncle Brett's quick and easy sukkah recipe (heavy on PVC pipe) and tried to match it. With the help of a patient employee and my broken Castellano, we acquired sixteen meters of pipe and a whole bunch of connectors. I carried the four-meter-long (that's a little over 13 feet) tubes up to checkout and then -- this is the way they do things here -- I cut them up with saws they provide. We then tramped home looking like itinerant plumbers. Throughout Aviva was the star of patience and helpfulness.
Now we need the rain to stop so we can build this thing and figure out where to get some skah (say that word while sneezing and you will get a fairly accurate sound of the word in Hebrew).
A sweet year to all of you!
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