Caroline and Alan's Amazing Interactive Succah

Caroline and Alan had us for dinner on chol ha'moed. We had a wonderful time, as always.

They have the most amazing succah.










And Alan's candies taste even better than they look!

Thank you Caroline and Alan for inviting us!

New Reality TV Show Called "Three Day Yom Tov With Family"

Aunt Malke has this great idea for a new reality TV show called "Three Day Yom Tov With Family".

Aunt Malke, we were glad to provide you with the inspiration.

But, not to worry, everyone survived the first days of Succot with the help of:

• Great company,


• Adorable baby and toddlers,


• Yummy food brought by Eli and Stacy, Aunt Malke and Uncle Elliot, and Rachel and Selig.


• Yummy challah baked by the Lump.


• Tons of help before and during from Lumpy and my Pi.


• Tunnel building and other assorted entertainment for Moshe by the Poot.


• Lots of help by everyone who was here (especially after some reminders).


• Sleepover use of a neighbor's house, another neighbor's den, and


• A bottle of children's Tylenol.

Thank you everyone for coming and helping.


Havdalah in the Succah:

Annual Group Photo Op:

How to Prevent Your Bike From Being Stolen

The Most Amazing Succah Showroom!

We have a new succah! But that is not what this post is about.

This post is about the place where we bought our new succah.

It is one of those places you should go see even if you don’t need a succah!

The other succah places where we shopped had maybe one demo succah set up. Or a half a succah (sorry, two walls, not kosher). Or an adorable dwee 2 ft model succah that your hamsters would love (and so light!)

This place however had a whole indoor showroom of various types of succah. There were a whole bunch of full size, fully set up succahs.

And when I say fully set up, I mean with decorations and tables and chairs and place settings.

But that is not all. Oh no, that is not all!

One succah even had Mannequins!





Bob is at the front, shaking hands with the ba'al ha'succah. The chesed shown by the ba'al ha'succah to invite this assorted group is truly amazing! (In addition to the variously challenged people you can see in the succah such as the chemotherapy patient, the woman in the lower left of the photo has no arms!)

This is the succah which we bought, though in a different color:


The portable succah (use it as your camp shower room after succot):



Some other choices:


Look thru the window to see the succah we bought. At the same time, admire the artificial tree growing between the succahs!



In addition to your new succah, you can also buy (for your new succah):

tables, chairs, beds


and decorations, including wishful thinking murals of Yerushalayim:


Here is Gary writing up our order, and all ready in case he feels a "Hamlet Moment" coming on.


Or maybe Poor Yorick is just waiting for one of those hamster succahs.

So go check it out - The National Sukkah Outlet- SukkahOutlet.Com - 20 Brighton Ave , Clifton, NJ (Passaic?).

And if you end up buying one, remind them that they owe Lill $25 commission.

Have a great Yom Tov!

Break in Infinite Loop

Getting Ready For Yom Tov

Except for the bit about the hogs.

Crabapples

Stupidity at the Supermarket - The Unit Price of Cheese

Which cheese is the better price?

At first glance it seems to be the one on the left, with a unit price of $6.65 vs the one on the right with a unit price of $9.56.

But on closer look, the cheese on the right is about 30% cheaper at $.30 an ounce vs $.42 an ounce for the one on the left (8 oz for $2.39 vs 12 oz for $4.99).

Where is the error?

Take a look at the "unit" in each case:




Can't wait to see the price by kilometer.

It Was a Good Month for Boys!

Mazal tov to

Shmuel and Tova on Mordechai Yecheszkel

Dovid and Miriam on Aharon Reuven

Aviva and Shmuly on Gavriel Noach Chaim

and of course

Eli, Stacy, and Moshe on

Chanan Azarya




and bucking the trend,

Mazal tov to

Eric and Abby on Olivia Morgan

Bluegrass and Tony Bennett?

What does not belong in this picture?

Resolution of the Pashdus Situation in the Kosher Meat Section of the Clark Shoprite

I found Joey from the meat department and tried explaining the problem with the sign. He told me that the meat department had not made the sign; that the sign was done by "the Girls Upstairs," who weren't in yet.

And although he wasn't quite sure what I was talking about, he made an executive decision and used his box cutter to make an edit, as you can see above.

And I was happy to get this resolved so smoothly, and perhaps prevent someone from making a horrible mistake.

And then I saw this.

NAME THIS BLOG POST CONTEST

Noticed this today. Thought of several snappy things I could say about it for the title of this post, but then figured, let me see what you can come up with.

Usual first prize of The winner of the contest will have the glory of winning the contest.