eHow: How to Give a Chanukah party and establish a holiday tradition
It’s just November 1, you say. Why think about the holidays? Because they are almost here! I thought I’d share two eHow articles with you – How to Throw a Chanukah Party (which you can do even if you aren’t Jewish), and one that I awkwardly called How to Make an Instant Holiday Tradition Treasure Hunt, or something incomprehensible like that. Have to get words in the title that eHow will accept and that are searchable. If I called the article, How to Make Potato Boats (which is what we call them), who knows who would find it – boat builders? People looking for science projects?
We’ve been celebrating Chanukah with Wendy Wayne and Gene Tackett for – could it be – 20 years? There are small photos with the article but I’ll put the bigger ones here.
We all take turns lighting candles. Karen is holding Annabelle, who is now in kindergarten!
I’m not going to be writing details here because if you’re interested in having a Chanukah party, you can read the eHow where I have everything explained in detail. By the way, Sophie, who is lighting the candle, is in 7th grade now!
The kids always enjoy playing dreidle. Big kids too.
Everyone participates in reading the short service. This too is discussed in the article.
And it all ends with dinner and potato latkes! Yum. We love latkes. Lots of latkes.
You can connect to other eHow articles on the gadget to the left.
The potato boat tradition? All I can say is don’t even do this unless you are willing to do it year after year after year after…it’s quite popular. And time consuming. And fun.
Burn the Witch closes
Burn the Witch IV closed today. It was a fabulous show and Nyoka did a terrific job curating. I sold one piece.
It’s one of my favorites but it’s going to a good home.
BAC – BacoArtistConnect
Terry Telford has a terrific blog. I’m going to put a link on the links section to the left. If you want to know ANYTHING about what is happening in Bakersfield, Terry has it. There is no excuse AT ALL to say “there’s nothing to do” in Bakersfield. We have a thriving art and restaurant scene (yes, we do) and Terry lays it all out for you.
New photos
There are new photos posted on my web site. You can find them in the animal gallery, the people gallery, the nature gallery, and the miscellaneous gallery. Just click through – the new photos are at the end. Oh, the flower gallery also.
Coming soon: neat photos of Yellowstone.
