Sunday dinner

[cellio]

Sunday dinner was fun. Ralph and Lori made a wonderful N-bean chili (just about every kind of bean you could imagine, well except I don't think it included garbonzos), and nicely spiced. And vegetarian, which is always useful.

After dinner we carved pumpkins. I can't remember if I've ever carved a pumpkin; I certainly haven't done so as an adult. It was fun. There seems to be a whole industry around pumpkin-carving now; I foolishly thought that carving a pumpkin involved a pumpkin, a knife, and something to scoop pumpkin guts out with. I had never seen the tools that apparently can be gotten in grocery stores. The little saber-saw blades with plastic handles worked especially well. The plastic awl was handy for marking where to cut, so you didn't have to worry about residual marker ink.

I finally remembered to take my laser pointer. I've been thinking about that ever since Ralph and Lori got kittens. My cats go nuts chasing it, and I figured kittens would be a hoot. (I did wait for Ralph or Lori to agree to this, though.) It was even more entertaining than I thought it would be. Two of my cats will follow the dot up the wall, but they don't jump for it the way the kittens did. The kitties got a good workout. (I hope that means they slept more soundly than they usually do.)

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Re: kashrut

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, Seth and I do both keep kosher. We both started keeping kosher at the same time, which was convenient. We'd both been keeping different levels of kosher up until that point... I was only buying food with a hechsher and we weren't mixing meat and dairy in our cooking, but it wasn't until Pesach this year that we got all new dishes, utensils, etc and started all over. So it's been a learning experience. The only real point of frustration is that we can't kasher our dishwasher... so that means a lot of dishwashing especially when there's company over. But these are small things to deal with in the whole scheme of things.
Anyway, enough of my babbling...