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Rainy Day Cafe Splurge

kate — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:59:29 +0000

Gieterse soes met advocaat.

Dinner on the Amstel

kate — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:11:54 +0000

We survived a sleepless Atlantic transit … to arrive safe and sound at Amstelveen with a great welcome from Josh and Adrie. We have managed with a small nap to hold off sleep until 11 p.m. So for now, just a picture of the view from our dinner table. And a promise of more to come.

Passover, 2009

kate — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:24:13 +0000

Here is our beautiful Passover as guests of Josh and Ardrie — with Judy and Laurie. To see a slideshow of all the pictures, click here.

The company was wonderful and the food was INCREDIBLE — Judy’s light and delicious Matzo Ball Soup (she makes floaters!), Adrie’s superlative homemade chopped liver and delightful — and figgy — haroset, Josh’s perfectly cooked lamb — and a matzo and chocolate dessert cake that was like candy.

And Adrie’s mini-haggadah was perfect! And when all the boys sang the traditional songs, it was very beautiful. I hope next year we can all be together again!

Thank you Josh and Adrie for a wonderful Pesach!

Garden snail

kate — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:54:56 +0000

Dandelion

kate — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:11:59 +0000

A free chance on a free book!

kate — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:32:30 +0000

Over at CaliforniaAuthors, we’re running another cool book lotto. We’re giving away a signed copy of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant named Isaias Hellman created California by Bay Area journalist Frances Dinkelspiel. It is an interesting and personal history. From californiaauthors: “Frances is a former newspaper reporter who has spent the past EIGHT years researching a book about her great-great-grandfather. Isaias Hellman was a California builder and financier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who played a pivotal role in creating one of the world’s most dynamic economies.” Learn more and enter the drawing at californiaauthors.

The autumn grape vine tonight

kate — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:07:32 +0000

Hey, go outside and look at the moon!

kate — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:37:07 +0000

There’s a lunar eclipse! Right this minute! Here’s a pix of how it looks from Covina Avenue. [thx for the heads up, Laur]

Another season: the vine is cut back.

kate — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:56:08 +0000

Lamb Chop and Shari Lewis, Jr. evacuate before fires.

kate — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:58:57 +0000

After this segment earlier today, the news anchor Marc Brown said “That was comforting. To see Lambchop.” In a way perhaps it was — for some of us, and you know who you are.