On Dogs and Pesach.
Its been lovely having another girl about the place. Even if she does have 4 legs and fur. Despite us running around making pesach Ayala seems to really enjoy being here. Well her tail wags a lot and as far as I know that means a dog is happy.
She really is fabulous company. When she saw me come into the kitchen today, ready to start work she came running up, tail wagging, as if to say “what can I do to help?” It was very sweet. But having watched us empty the contents of our kitchen onto the lawn and wash it, scrub the entire place then cover the whole thing in oil cloths, I think she has probably decided her new owners are barking. [she, by the way, hardly ever barks. And only very quietly. I think she might be shy.]
She watched all of our antics with a bemused look on her face. And then managed to pick up ticks in the garden. Luckily Husband discovered it after he come home and skillfully removed the nasty creature. [I always said he should have been a vet]. Meanwhile Jojo has been hard at work scrubbing his little table, emptying all the chametz, boxing it up and wiping shelves, all with the enthusiasm that only 3 year olds can muster for this sort of work [see picture]. Not sure what I would have done without him. He has even figured out how to stack glass bottles and plastic so that they wont smash. Genius. We should be able to sell him into slavery before his 5th birthday.
Having done my big pesach shop what I thought was impressively early [wednesday pm] I was appalled to discover the lack of ground almonds in Mega. In fact the lack of any ground nuts whatsoever. Sent Husband elsewhere and same story. You can buy kosher for pesach bamba, rice, ketchup, wafflim [!], beefburgers… everything you would never need. But no ground nuts. Either israelis dont make decent cakes or somebody grossly underestimated the country’s demand. Other than the ground nuts you can buy pretty much anything, if you eat kitniyot. If you don’t, its the same as the UK was about 7 years ago BKK [before Kosher Kingdom]. Personally I think its a shame to miss out on the beauty of eating fresh food – natural food – I am sure my mother used to make her own cheese and I heard of other mums who were famous for beetroot jam, but with all this k for P stuff in the shops, I think those days will be coming to an end for all except Lubavitch, who I am told are still happily frying their eggs in chicken fat.
Still, it gives us more time to concentrate on getting out of Egypt. Which is really supposed to be the point of this lark.