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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Kitchen is 95% of the way there
So the cabinets, appliances, and counter tops are all in place. Just need a plumber to hook up the stove, the electrician to finish the wiring, and some final touch-ups on paint. Now it’s time to clean up the dining room and return it to some semblance of order.
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The life of a homeowner
So it has been a really long time since I’ve written anything on here (10+ months). We’ve gone from buying a house, to doing our first renovation. This is the first time that we’ve ever owned a house. It definitely has a lot of perks and a lot of negatives. My favorite parts of the [...]
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Pictures of our House
So we’re still in the process of buying the house, and things could still fall through for one reason or another, but this will hopefully be our house!
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Trip to Turkey
I was going to post the pictures from our trip to Turkey, but for some reason the software that I normally use is crashing my web browser. That is Lo Tov (not good). So here is a link to the Flickr page instead. In the upper right corner, there is a link to a slideshow [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Catching up on Photos
Hiking near the Dead Sea In March, Jess and I went with some friends hiking near the Dead Sea. Trip to the Negav At the end of March, HUC took the students on a trip to the Negav. This included going to a solar facility, hiking, hanging out in a tourist Bedouin tent, and going [...]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Trip to the Negev with Scott and Amy
So Jess and I traveled with Scott and Amy into the desert. Even added another country when we visited Petra for a day. Here are some pics:
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Oops
When I uploaded the entry about Africa, I left out the pictures for Zanzibar. They have now been loaded below.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Out of Africa
Well, we are back from Africa and life has officially resumed in Jerusalem. Jess is back in class and I’m back at the laptop working. In the past few days, I’ve edited and uploaded about 180 of the 2800+ pictures that we took. I feel like they are a good sampling of all of the [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Safari in Kenya is cool….
..but having it during baby season? much cooler. So Jess and I are back from our first safari in Kenya. Tomorrow we leave for Tanzania. Trust me on this, it will take a while to get pictures posted and a full blog entry to describe everything we’ve seen. Hopefully I remember most of it. [...]
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Wartime in Israel: What it looks like from Sderot
This is not an article posted by me. From what I have heard, the American coverage of Gaza has been extremely biased. So here is a blog from a woman living 1 mile away from Gaza in Sderot. Sderot is the city that has been bombed for the last 6+ months. This comes from the [...]
