This is Joshua. The Husband. I have hacked into A Carpet Bagger's Tale to deliver you all an oh-so-important message.
Pictures! We have had trouble loading them on the blog site. So, instead, I will be loading them on our shutterfly site and linking them to the blog. If you want to see the pictures a little bit bigger, click the "see pictures larger" link below the picture slideshow and it will relay you to our photo site (http://andertfamilyfun.shutterfly.com/).
Hope you enjoy them.
The Husband
P.S. Any grammatical, syntatic, or spelling-related errors are due to my encompetnece. Please do not attribute them to the lovely Ms. Ellison.
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YEAH!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am reading David Kilpatrick's The Facebook Effect (as anyone who follows me on GoodReads would know;)) - guess what the single most important innovation Facebook did (well, at least prior to opening up Facebook as a platform and allowing anyone-and-their-dog make an app)? Allowing for the tagging of photographs! Something there is about a photograph, yes?
Thank you many times over for the photos, and when more are ready to be posted, be sure to remind us.
You are a star, Joshua in the pantheon of friendly hackers!
Baklava. Yes. This year to mark the sweetness of the new year (for rosh hashanah) I decided that along with the usual apples and honey I would make baklava. It's not easy and I don't think the final result was especially sophisticated but the requisite combination of honey, nuts, pastry and (of course) lots of butter were all there. I already have ambitions to try it again, perhaps even create pieces that stay together when picked up... As the weather cools and the leaves start to turn (yes, it's happening already) my thoughts turn to the kitchen again. In the summer, it's all I can do to manage salad and cheese and bread s the fall is a chance to go back and see what I can do. I'm cooking up butternut squash from the garden! I love that stuff. Tomorrow, shepherd's pie and a fresh batch of baklava. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteSo my own advice about the tonsils is a little different than the drink and rest advice proffered by Dad. I remember traveling in Egypt and needing some cream for an, ahem, personal itch. After an excruciating time explaining and miming, what I needed to a pharmacist I did actually get what I needed and all was well. So before you leave the city behind it might be worth a trip to a pharmacy, especially one near a touristy area. Just ask for antibiotics; there's some fairly generic antibiotics that will tackle most standard infections and it's not as though you intend to make a habit of it. And, of course, eat scads of yoghurt so you're not back to the pharmacy with a whole pantomime.
And yes, as Dad says, the rhetoric is getting quite heated around Qu'ran burning and anti-Muslim feelings. Those who point out that we enjoy unprecedented religious freedoms because of where we live are not hearkened to the way you might think. Truly a tragic misrepresentation of the American dream. Yet a small light in the wilderness is a plea from the bima during the high holidays reminding us of our obligation to embrace not just other Jews but Muslims too. I have to tell you we don't always get to hear about the plight of our Muslim brothers from the bima. Actually, the rabbi movingly reminded us all of our (i.e. our Jewish)experience of book burning and of our holy obligation to step in, step up, etc. etc. It was a poignant and powerful call to action, the kind we are accustomed to hearing and it helped focus my new year's reflections. Another reason I love this time of year. I'm so glad I get time allotted to me each year for reflection; for someone like me, I might miss it otherwise.
I need to finish. We have to stain the deck before the sun goes down and now is the time.
I love you both. I'm so happy to read your posts and hear what you're experiencing. I'm very very proud of you!
With love.
Mandy