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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Bagel Café Breakfast, Also Lunch

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I have some good friends I meet regularly for all sorts of enjoyable activities. Yesterday's plan was a festive breakfast "out....
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

How Time Flies, Rosh Chodesh Adar I Next Week

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The other night, I looked at the sky and saw the moon. It was just a half circle, and we know what that means. There's only a week le...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Our New High Tech Door, Worth The Money

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When we renovated our kitchen last summer, we also decided to change the door going to the mirpeset , balcony/terrace. It was wood with...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Japan-Japan, Do Japanese Really Eat That Sort of Food? Restaurant Review

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The other night, I went with a friend to the Derech Hevron branch of the "Japanese style" chain of kosher restaurants, Japan-Jap...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Gorgeous Winter Sky

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Sunrise, sunset. Do you know which is which?
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Our TU B'Shvat Seder and Memories

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Most Jews, and even many non-Jews, know about the Pesach/Passover Seder, where we are commanded to eat matzah, that dry tasteless cracker li...
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Friday, January 18, 2019

AC Care Tips for Dummies Like Us

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I still have no doubt that we're among the very last in Israel's cold mountainous region to have gone modern  and gotten an airco...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Snow, Just a Puff of Wishful Thinking

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For the past few days, the Israeli media was full of supposed "pre-snow" warnings. You'd think we were in for a major blizzard...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Appetite in Flux, Suddenly Needing Carbs

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About a decade ago, I radically changed my eating habits , reducing carbs and grains drastically. The result was a fifteen 15 kilo, th...
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

American Football in Israel, Lions in The Lead

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After last Thursday night's nail-biter of a game, the Jerusalem "Big Blue" Lions defeated its only real competitor, Petach ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Yippee Me, I Assembled Wheels on New Heater

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American style central heating/cooling is very rare in Israel. It certainly wasn't anything we planned when designing and building our h...
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Thursday, January 10, 2019

Getting Old: Ginger Lemon Water, Healthy? Prevent Constipation

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Sometimes I feel like I'm counting the days to my next birthday. It's a biggie. What is really on my mind is the health deterioratio...
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Monday, January 07, 2019

Rosh Chodesh Shevat, Wet, Cold and Sunny, Onward to Adar

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The cold wind kept most of the regulars home on Rosh Chodesh Shevat, but two of us braved the raw wind and enjoyed the crisp sunny mornin...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

Mixing Fact and Fiction

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Last night I reviewed Arise and Shine  by Tzvi Fishman on my blog Shiloh Musings , a book I coined a Forrest Gump historical fiction nove...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

Coconut Milk "Ice Cream"

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The other day I bought myself some coconut milk/liquid to use in coffee, with the hope that reducing cow milk would make my cold better. T...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Finally Figured out a Way to Carry My Backpack Without Killing My Shoulder

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For the past few months, I've been finding it harder and more painful to walk around with my backpack. My right shoulder which I had inj...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019

New Playgrounds in Shiloh

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This morning when my friends and I took a walk, we decided on a new route. We went to the "Techelet Neighborhood" and saw th...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Next Week Rosh Chodesh Shevat!

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It's hard to believe, but our winter is almost over here in Israel. Even though there has been a custom for decades to use the Jewish...
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