Chocolates for Matt S

 

Happy birthday to my son in law Matt.  I know he likes chocolates and these are the good stuff.  Bought form the Chocolate Man shop down at LFP Town Centre.  The 1/2 lb box.  Tried not to select fruit flavored.  Hey, those are my favorite.

Discovered that they have a Seconds basket of ones that didn't come out perfect.  For 1/2 price or less.  Definitely have to check that out any time I go down there.

In positive news, I went swimming today at the local pool.  First time since surgery.  Plus I droved the car myself (also a first!)

In Halloween news, most all of the kids in the neighborhood and the parents all came together.  Suzie and Megan brought Scoutie over.  Like her mom, she did not get that you knock on the door and when they answer, you don't waltz in.  Suzie, at this age, would bellow "Gimme Candy!!!"  Nobody since.

My postcards

 

I mailed my 200 postcards last week.  It was hard to get them done post op but I did get them done.  Dennis helped and my friend Julia wrote 50 of them  They were to Arizona and upstate New York.  I know there were others who did more.  I hope they help!  I'm sure we're going to find a pile around somewhere we forgot to mail....

Bonfire under the Sukkah

A less well-known Jewish holliday, Sukikot, part of the high holiday cycle known as Feast of the Booths.  You build an open air structure (with an open stick roof) and you eat celebrate and maybe live in it for a week.  It's decorated with fruits and the vegetables of the harvest.  My sister's synagogue had a bonfire and singing in the sukkah.  She said it was pretty chilly!

 Hello Azure fans.  Kinda' quiet on the posts lately.  Had knee replacement surgery 4 1/2 weeks lately and it's slowed me down.  I've been living on the downstairs which does work pretty well.  I will get moved up pretty soon.

I don't know I featured this picture last spring.  This was my Hearth Archives group from temple standing in front of our installation.  I went to Kol Nidre service and it's still there. It was supposed to be a six week study group and it ended up for almost a year.

Temple Israel Boston

 One thing that I wanted to do in Massachusetts was to visit Temple Israel Cemetery.  My grandparents and my grandmother's family are buried there.  There was a very helpful person at Temple Israel, told me that Edward Cohen (my great-grandfather) had purchased a plot with 12 spots in 1945.  Of course he would.  He has six children.  He himself is buried in a similar monument a little bit down.

I found my grandparent's stone and lots of great aunts and uncles though I did know that much about them

We placed rocks on the stones, as always, to show that we were there..They had a graveside there in the mid 1990s when my grandmother passed.  But my father forbade myself, my brother and sister from going.  I could never figure that out.

But now me, my husband and my sister have visited.

Hey Simon

To see this, you have to click on the facebook link below

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1094687268684171

Hey Simon!  He's 7 months old, really trying to crawl.  Pretty good for a guy who spent his first week in a level 4 NICU.  We'll take it.

Somehow it goes next to a long border collie video, I dunno.

He's pretty dang cute.

Again the Lederer Cousin Gathering

 

A few more pictures of the Lederer Family Gathering taken by my cousin Flash Rosenberg.

The top one is again Team Clara in the sanctuary with the Lederer torah.

The bottom one was a toast at the end where we all toasted together for the great times that day and our ability to all be a family.  One can be better.

Will we all be together again?  Who knows? I haven't seen Team Clara (actually a name I made up) for many years.  Not so long this time, eh?  And pretty good looking, no?

I have not been around here as I had knee replacement surgery.

Thinking about the future

 Some of the questions we pondered at our recent Cousins Gatherins were

1. How do we interest the young people in our family history and our relatives.

2. How will future family know we are here gathered.

I worked on the document above.  We used archival paper and archival pens.  We wanted this document found years from now showing we were all here and together.  We also asked the participants to write a message to those in the future.

We want to hear from our ancestors and we want our descendants  to hear from us.

So we made 4 big pages and asked people to sign and write.  A big success.  People took it seriously; we filled all the pages.

Where it goes from here? 

Picture here from Flash Rosenberg

Remodeled Seattle Pops Opening

    https://www.facebook.com/SeattlePops/videos/872132518190804

Really cute video of Suzie giving a walkthrough through pf the remodeled Seattle Pops store.  They needed more freezer space and more preparation area.  So they redesigned the front retail part.\

She and the video person do a great job of doing the tour.  They started this during the early spring and expected it to be open months ago.  They've been selling pops on their patio like a farmer's market.

Finally opened!  We visited shortly after the opening and had a pop!

I could figure out to add the link to make a pretty picture but I think you can cut and paste and figure it out.

Welcome back Seattle Pops with your store's reopening