I had a great dinner with Leo and Sam on Friday night. Hugh came down to wish Leo a Happy Thanksgiving, which was pretty nice and Leo certainly appreciated it. Then yesterday I attended Rabbi Lander's "Taste of Text" after services. This session is on the Ten Commandments and yesterday was on 'Honour your mother and father'. I love the discussion that ensued. Never dull!
Then this morning I was invited to attend the Etz Chayim Annual Brunch and Draw by friends. It was so much fun it was great. This was the best turnout they've ever had. Every 25th ticket drawn won a prize....generally $100 and then a couple of them pulled won $200. All of the tickets pulled, winners and losers, are eliminated from the final draw. When it gets to the last 4 tickets they are offered the option of sharing the $4,000 prize or to keep drawing until the last person wins. In today's case the four finalists were quite happy to each walk away with $1,000 each!
Then this afternoon I went to the Winnipeg Art Gallery to see the Yousuf Karsh exhibit. It was really quite good. If you get a chance it's on until the beginning of January! Check it out by clicking here!
Now, I'm just having a relaxing evening! Life is good.
Hope you've had a wonderful weekend as well!
Barb
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
ThanksShabbas!
Today I am roasting a turkey and making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for my stepdad Leo, who is American. A Jewish friend of mine was chuckling when I told him and started calling it ThanksShabbas since Friday is the night I make my Shabbat (or Shabbas) dinner and I'm doing the thanksgiving turkey a day late!
So, the bird is stuffed and in the oven. I feel like I should be in a panic with a million things to do, but I'm not. I'm throwing potatoes in to bake and vegetables will probably be canned...make my challah every week anyway. So really, it's all good! How come these sort of days always used to feel like so frantic for me? Why is it that now, not so much?
Ok...so I have to tell you about the funniest thing that happened when I was walking home from my vestibular physiotherapy at Health Sciences Centre on Wednesday. I had stopped in the Hudson's Bay store on Portage and was walking out the door across from the Winnipeg Art Gallery when I saw a young woman putting her child into a vehicle. Her husband was behind the wheel talking on his cell phone. So she put her purse and child into the car, closed the door and was folding up the umbrella stroller to put into the back. As she bends down to do this and I'm walking by the vehicle, he drives off! She looked up stunned....I stopped and I'm sure I too looked stunned....she said "did he really just drive off???". I started laughing and said something to the effect of "someone's going to be in deep shit when he gets home!". We stood together, both laughing, and watched to see how long it would be until he realised that he'd left his wife standing on the sidewalk! Well - he didn't! He drove off and made a turn onto Portage. By this point we are laughing out loud. I asked if the child was strapped in properly and she answered yes....and that he would probably notice she wasn't there the first time the kid made a noise! I have laughed over this for the last two days. Today someone sent me the JC Penney Doghouse commercial and all I could think of was this guy!
Well, off to do 'stuff'.....I hope you have a wonderful day!
Barb
So, the bird is stuffed and in the oven. I feel like I should be in a panic with a million things to do, but I'm not. I'm throwing potatoes in to bake and vegetables will probably be canned...make my challah every week anyway. So really, it's all good! How come these sort of days always used to feel like so frantic for me? Why is it that now, not so much?
Ok...so I have to tell you about the funniest thing that happened when I was walking home from my vestibular physiotherapy at Health Sciences Centre on Wednesday. I had stopped in the Hudson's Bay store on Portage and was walking out the door across from the Winnipeg Art Gallery when I saw a young woman putting her child into a vehicle. Her husband was behind the wheel talking on his cell phone. So she put her purse and child into the car, closed the door and was folding up the umbrella stroller to put into the back. As she bends down to do this and I'm walking by the vehicle, he drives off! She looked up stunned....I stopped and I'm sure I too looked stunned....she said "did he really just drive off???". I started laughing and said something to the effect of "someone's going to be in deep shit when he gets home!". We stood together, both laughing, and watched to see how long it would be until he realised that he'd left his wife standing on the sidewalk! Well - he didn't! He drove off and made a turn onto Portage. By this point we are laughing out loud. I asked if the child was strapped in properly and she answered yes....and that he would probably notice she wasn't there the first time the kid made a noise! I have laughed over this for the last two days. Today someone sent me the JC Penney Doghouse commercial and all I could think of was this guy!
Well, off to do 'stuff'.....I hope you have a wonderful day!
Barb
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