ok, passover begins today...not normally a holiday on my radar, but this year is different.....for starts, one of my new cooks is a converted jew (probably the only one living in Mitchellsburg as we speak)......he converted when he married his ex-wife, and has not reconverted since she left him and moved to china (not a good health move.......) so he keeps kosher, at least so far and not eating pork, and shellfish, etc........in d.c., i stopped at a giant food store to buy dessert and appetizers for dinner.....and saw my first ever big-bang passover food display...whoa......more than i ever dreamed was available for this holy day........as i am unsure just which herbs are bitter, and because i wasn';t totally paying attention this morning on npr when the first sandwich (the hil-el matzoh with apple and bitter herbs...?) was being discussed......i will not be doing the passover thing today........this is pure laziness......as i fixed corned beef and cabbage on st patricks day, and i am not irish ...years ago ecw and i attended a sadar meal with sally and robb dine-fitch (the artist jim dine's half-bro) ...it was very interesting.......i believe robb read the passages from the holy book......but that is all i remember.
this morning when i trudged out to the road to get the paper at 6:50 am, the yard looked so beautiful, i wished that i could linger, with coffee, on the deck and just take it all in.......the perennials have taken over so much of the bedding square-footage that there is less and less to do each year when it comes to mulch...just the weeding of the wild onions.......all that is left is the back of the house, around scw's fish pond......which lacks fish at this time.......