The Garden

Things are petering out in the garden. The champions have been the Japanese eggplants, the cucumbers, the basil, the tomatoes, and the peppers. Eggplants and basil are still going strong, the peppers are several but small, the cukes are totally done, and the tomatoes are nearly done (while those in Oregon have barely started!!). We have yet to see what all is happening to the sweet potatoes underground. We'll be yanking a bunch of stuff out in the next couple of weeks and seeding the ground with a cover crop - probably red clover. We're hoping to add a couple of beds of fall plantings - onions, garlic, peas, beans, greens, etc. if this weather EVER cools down!!

Here's Eli doing his favorite job - harvesting! He is blissful in the garden, checking out every detail and he is so excited that when we finish astronomy we'll be studying botany. He's so curious about everything out there!


Here's a bowl of things from the garden - YUM! We've really enjoyed our weekly basil-garlic-onion-anchovy-eggplant-zucchini-tomato pizza with lots of hot red peppers.



And last of all, isn't the eggplant pretty? :)

Back At It!

We're back to learning tomorrow! They each have a daily ticket hanging on their clipboard, which lists their learning tasks, chores, and other activities for them to check off. We'll be doing about 80% of what we would normally be doing. I'm waiting on a couple of books, and am going to do some review before we move forward in chumash. They're looking forward to it, and already started doing some work this afternoon on their own.

It was a nice Sunday. The only thing I can't figure out is how I can have four simple things on my list and I can only get two of them done. The list was do laundry, make bread, clean up kitchen, and clean out the veggie storage bins. The last two got done, at least! And we did stop at 5:30 for dinner and 6:30 to watch John Huston's Moby Dick (this version remains fairly faithful to the original source). Amirah has read the Step Into Classics version twice, and begged to watch a movie version. All of the children liked it (!!!???!). It's so hard to find good-quality, torah-compatible family movies that we usually end up watching various science or history documentaries (definitely easier then good fiction-based movies, but not a LOT easier!). I just wish Sundays would stretch a little longer.

Dean did get halfway done with a project to add a worktable into the kitchen. He would have finished it, but he took the time to have the kids help him and they had such a sweet time working together. It was so fun to watch. We managed to eke out a space for a $10 seven-foot door that will be used as a work table (thanks, Restore!). Great for staging shabbos food, and as an extra workspace for the kids to do their learning! We'll have a pegboard hidden behind a curtain for all the tools to hang on, plus we'll add shelves to the walls above the work table and take advantage of the cupboard that is already hanging there. It's going to be nice not to have the tools all scrunched in the laundry room. I'll be able to move all my glass mason jars out there and make a little more space in the pantry. Then a few more things can move out of the kitchen and into the pantry. I love re-arranging things, and making them more efficient.

To bed now, up on time tomorrow and we'll GET GOING! Eek. :)

The Menu

A few days away, and suddenly shabbos is upon us again. I have no idea HOW I'll be ready, but somehow we're always ready when it comes.

Highlights of the week:

Kayaking every day (Amirah learned to go solo!)
fishing
one-hour coffee breaks on the screened porch overlooking the lake
exploring random red-dirt roads
great food
great conversation
a late-night champagne w/a toasty brie/raspberry jam/filo concoction
swimming
farm-admiring, and
a pitstop at Magnolia Springs State Park - GORGEOUS!

Pics to come as soon as I can locate the cable...

So... for dinner:

challah
wonton soup
teriyaki beef and chicken skewers (w/zucchini, onion, and tomato)
rice
roasted potatoes
roasted asparagus
eggplant with miso sauce
green salad w/miso dressing
coconut lemon sorbet

And for lunch:

Sushi extravaganza
green salad w/miso dressing
miso soup
Amirah's chocolate chip cookies

And a G-R-E-A-T B-I-G N-A-P!

Good shabbos, all!

The Menu

What a *great* relaxing week, and only three more days until 5/6ths of us go on our not-back-to-school vacation! :) More on that later. :) And now for a wonderful shabbos with lots of guests for dinner and lunch.

So.

For dinner:

challah
caesar salad
red pepper spread
roast chicken with balsamic onion gravy
mashed potatoes
roasted carrots
spicy cabbage and mushrooms
stewed eggplant, tomato, and green pepper
corn kugel
strawberry cake

And for lunch:

challah
caesar salad
tilapia cakes with special sauce
eggplant spread
beef stew with kishke
turkey salami
chicken taco salad
coleslaw
mango cucumber salad
peach challah pudding

HOLY SHABBOS NACHAMU! May we be ever closer to the geulah!

Our 2011–12 Learning Plan

Phew! Well, I think I've worked out most of what we're doing, at least for August through January. It's been a lot of planning during the last month!

FOR AUGUST
For the last couple of weeks we've been polishing our Hebrew reading skills using the nicely plain workbooks from AlephChamp. I purchased the reading books, the medallions (for fun - turned out to be a BIG hit!), and the color word flashcards (not completely necessary, but I got them anyway). I bought a sample workbook, and did not care for those at all. Since we're basically using it for review, they weren't necessary for us anyway. They're reading 1-4 pages per day (1 for Avi, 2 for Raizel, 3 for Eli, and 4 for Amirah). It only takes 10-15 minutes per kid per day and the review has really upped our speed. Hooray!

We've also gotten a head start on history. I tend to do a lot of history in the "between" times so we don't have to do so much when we have our full learning schedule happening. So history has been an interesting study of Mary Queen of Scots, the Protestant/Catholic squabbles (and worse) in Europe, King James, Jamestown, and Pocahontas.

We read Blood on the River as our historical fiction book to go with the times. Made us all glad not to be among the first colonists! The book was historically accurate and incorporated many primary resources. All four of them enjoyed it and couldn't wait to read another chapter.

Next we're on to Henry Hudson and the search for the Northwest Passage!



Next week 5/6ths of us will be joining friends for a not-back-to-school vacation for four days. We're looking forward to that very much. After that, we're back at it, and this is what we'll be doing...

EVERYONE - KODESH
• davening
• parsha stories (The Little Midrash Says, Simcha's Kinderlach, and Tales of Tzaddikim (new for us this year)
• Hebrew vocabulary of the week (4 words to memorize/use in addition to what they learn
individually)
• gadol of the week (every two weeks we'll learn about a different gadol; his picture is posted on the wall, and we'll learn biographical information and stories about him; first one is Rashi!)
• middah of the week (often connected with the parsha)
• family lessons from Chofetz Chaim: Lessons in Truth based on his books, Sefer Sefas Tamim and Sefer Shem Olam (we recently finished the wonderful book Chofetz Chaim: The Family Lesson a Day on the laws of speech)

EVERYONE - CHOL
• Story of the World 3: Early Modern Times (From Elizabeth I to the Forty-Niners)
• completing Apologia Astronomy (up to Saturn now!), and hoping to cover Botany and Human Physiology in the coming year
• fancy word of the week (I just used dictionary.com to come up with both useful and amusing words to learn for fun that we'll try to use here and there throughout the week. (Our first word is "velocity.")

AMIRAH - KODESH
• reading from the chumash and siddur! (using lots of flashcards I created)
• Aleph Champ (for speed-reading practice; should be done by mid-fall)
• Rashi script (with the P'tach workbook available here; the same one I used!)
• Lashon Hatorah Bet/Gimmel for biblical grammar

AMIRAH - CHOL
• Math Mammoth 2 (last little bit) + Math Mammoth 3 (so far so good!)
• Rod and Staff Spelling 3 (a Mennonite curriculum that we're going to try out; seems like it could be a good fit; Zaner-Bloser is a bit b-o-r-i-n-g...)
• Rod and Staff Penmanship 3 (ditto, but it's Spelling Workout that is boring and full of more busywork than Amirah needs... I thought about just making my own penmanship book, but this was cheap and my time is limited!)
• Piano lessons! (Faber Piano books - still my favorite after all these many years of teaching)
• First Language Lessons 3 (we continue to be very happy with this great grammar program)
• Writing With Ease 3 (ditto here; teaches writing skills very pithily!)
• McGuffey Reader 3 (read aloud 2x/week to work on oral expression and fluid reading)
• assigned reading (about 30 minutes per day) related primarily to our history studies
• choir!
• recorder class!
• free reading (she does plenty without any encouragement!)

ELI - KODESH
• Aleph Champ
• beginning chumash and siddur reading
• learning Hebrew script (using Migdalor workbook)
• Lashon Hatorah Alef

ELI - CHOL
• Math Mammoth 1 (half-way done) + Math Mammoth 2
• Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading
• Explode the Code 3 + however far we get! (I have decided to forego a formal spelling program for first grade; I honestly don't think there's any need; also, Eli loves Explode the Code and that provides plenty of writing/spelling opportunities!)
• Rod and Staff Penmanship 1
• First Language Lessons 1 (grammar)
• Writing With Ease (composition)
• Piano lessons!
• Orff-Schulwerk music class!

RAIZEL - KODESH
• Aleph Champ

RAIZEL - CHOL
• Handwriting Without Tears 1
• First Language Lessons 1 (with Eli; she already memorized it all anyway!)
• piano lessons!
• Ordinary Parents Guide for Teaching Reading
• Explode the Code 1 + however much we do!

And Little Avi will be learning his alphabet and his alefbeis, and rolling around gathering in things by osmosis, and just generally being really cute and funny and sweet!

As for how it's all going to work out... I'm basically organizing our day into blocks. They'll all be working on the same subject areas at roughly the same time and I'll be bouncing back and forth. B"H Amirah is at an age where there are many things she can do independently, checking in with me before and/or after she does the work. I'll give each kid a daily ticket and they check things off as they go. Their daily ticket will include several chores that need to be done at different parts of the day. The ticket will go on their clipboard that is hanging in the learning room.

The learning room is nicely fixed up and organized! Some pretty things are on the walls, all the drawers are organized, and we're pretty much ready to go.

If you made it this far - MAZAL TOV! :)

The Menu

Another week of just menu posting. I've been so distracted by all the organization we've been doing and with helping as I can to get ima settled in (a little tricky with three puppies and four kids!) that blogging time has been set aside this past month. There have been lots of fun things to share, so hopefully my memory will hold on to a few of them! :)

So, for dinner:

challah
Italian bean dip
taco salad
broccoli/sundried tomato pasta salad
chicken skewers
mushroom rice
roasted potatoes
roasted veggies
chocolate covered orange biscotti

And for lunch (lots of guests!):

salads from dinner, plus
apple honey coleslaw
shuba (beets/carrots/onion/potatoes/lox/mayo - a layered salad)
asparagus/egg/tarragon/arugula salad
macque choux (corn/pepper/tomato)
beef barley stew
frozen lime pie

Good shabbos, all!!!

The Menu

Not much posting, but lots of lesson planning and house organizing. Mostly the former this week! So many things I'd like to have ready ahead of time... Meanwhile, B"H, there's shabbos.

For dinner:

challah
surimi salad w/fried won tons
chicken with lemon rice
roasted okra
roasted carrots/zucchini/mushroom/onion/garlic
mango cucumber salad
roasted potatoes
pasta with almond spinach sauce
peach cake

And for lunch:

We're O-U-T!

Feeling a bit worn out and accutely three weeks-ish. Monday is the 1st of Av and it all just feels very weighty right now...

Good shabbos, all!

The Menu

For dinner...

challah
butternut squash soup
caesar salad
baked Japanese eggplant w/an anchovy/garlic/matzo meal/olive oil topping
roasted garden veggies with preserved lemon
potato wedges
oven-fried chicken (topped w/mayo, mustard, garlic, matzo meal, lemon juice)
spicy ginger cookies
chocolate covered orange mandelbrot
chocolate-covered meringue
iced blueberry tea and lemonade

And for lunch...

some of the above, plus:
turkey pastrami
egg salad
guacamole and chips
eggplant dip w/dried tomatoes, fresh basil, and garlic

B"H it's shabbos! Good shabbos, all!

Culinary Adventures

First of all, I have to thank my friend RP for so much inspiration! She is very creative and very wonderfully frugal (the kind of frugal that feels more like abundance than frugality because she makes so much more from so little!). You must visit her blog and enjoy her creativity.

So... here's what's going on in the kitchen right now...

•Drying tomatoes. We have a couple of tomato bushes that are loaded with mediocre tasting tomatoes. I cut them in half and put them on the fruit drier and WOW now they're delicious. I'll totally dry some of them, and partially dry the rest to put in salads. They taste as good as our ever-dependable Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes when they are half-dried. The Sweet 100s have just been served in a bowl for meals, or just eaten while we water and weed the garden.

•Pickles. I did 7 quarts of pickled cucumbers and 2 pints of pickled jalapeños. I love jalapeños! To preserve them, you can also just toss them whole into the freezer. Their skins fall off effortlessly when you defrost them. The pickled ones are good in salsa, or just diced and put on top of... whatever! :)

•Roasting coffee beans in the Whirly-Pop. After exactly two years, our $100 coffee bean roaster gave out. Shortly before it gave out, I got a Whirly-Pop (usually used for popcorn). I love this low-tech solution! Instead of roasting 1/3 cup at a time (enough for 2 days), I can roast 2 cups at a time (probably even more). It takes about 10-12 minutes. DH figured out the best setting on the stove was one notch below mid-way. For the first 5 minutes you can just let it sit over the flame. After that you need to crank it until it's done. I love how the beans start to crackle as they get near to being done. They keep on crackling for quite a few minutes after they're off the stove too!


Some things that only live in my head so far:

•Last year Kroger's lowest price for peaches was $0.58/pound. Right now they're at $1.00/lb. A good price, but I'm hoping for less. It's the only reasonably priced fruit for quantity jam-making around here! As soon as it goes down I want to make a year-supply of peach jam, while I daydream about the endless quantities of cheap raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries in Oregon... YUM! Those berries were about $1.25/lb in Oregon. Here, the cheapest is about double that or more. :( But we sure can grow a lot of things I could never grow well there — peppers, eggplants, tomatoes (ripe ones before September - a thrill!), watermelons. Very fun.

•Get koji (aspergillus mold) and make homemade sake, fermented black beans (which are actually soy beans that turn black during the fermentation process), miso, and soy sauce. Well, one of these days...

•Make my own tofu more often. It's fun and easy to make. The only thing I'd like to get is a tofu mold so it's a little neater looking. :)

•One of these days I'm going to get a grain grinder. One of these days. Not only is freshly-ground flour delicious, but you can also make all sorts of flours that are more expensive to buy (but very cheap to make) like chick pea flour, rice flour, etc.

Okay, enough daydreaming. On to shabbos prep. Keeping it simple-ish this shabbos. First shabbos with savta here (she moved here on Tuesday!).

P.S. Our best investment ever? The 12-foot above-ground pool. The kids swim 2x/day most days. We might use it for fish next year (tilapia!) and get a larger pool for the kids. Once you get the chemicals down then it's no trouble to maintain at all. It's a little tricky since there's no single recipe - it depends on what's in your local water. And here algaecide is a must! It doesn't take long for a pool to turn green...

The Menu

For dinner...

challah
tilapia za'atar fish cakes w/Thai chili garlic mayo (it works... really!)
lamb with rosemary and garlic
pesto pasta
roasted eggplant, zucchini, squash, mushrooms, onions, garlic, preserved lemon
tomato cucumber salad
carrot kugel
mashed potatoes
peach cake

And for lunch....

A special seudah at shul!

It's been an intense week with all the organizing and I am looking forward to a good sleep! I feel so good about how much I've been able to do around the house. And just having thinking time about our learning while I do that has been good too. On our regular schedule it's all I can do get dishes in the sink and shuffle laundry during the day. I'm putting a weekly chore-training time in our schedule so that the kids are able to do more and more around the house. I think having a regularly scheduled training time is going to be a big help in increasing what they're able to do. Must run! Good shabbos, all!

Cleaning and Organizing

July is zooming by. A&E are in camp at shul from 9-3 every day, and I've been busy completely decluttering and organizing the house. I made a list of the 69 places there were to do, and I have now finished 43 of 69 areas. Checking off boxes is a big motivator to me, as is seeing all the jobs in one room being checked off, making the room "complete." We have quite a bit of storage in this house, and even more now. We're going to eke out a workspace in the kitchen for tools and projects. I bought a door at the Restore to use for a work table. I've got the learning room REALLY squared away and that made me most happy. Old learning materials were boxed up, and the new ones went onto the shelves. The learning closet got decluttered and straightened (there are long narrow shelves all along one wall). Things are getting polished and dusted and the walls are getting cleaned. It's so nice to have the opportunity to do this so thoroughly! Raizel and Avi have been good sports too. It's too hot to go out anyway, so we're hibernating indoors. At night, I've been working hard on our learning projects for the coming year. I'll go into more detail in a different post, but I've been able to get a LOT planned without needing to have anything in particular ready for the next day. Off to sleep...........

The Menu

For dinner:

challah
Chinese fish cakes
wonton soup
chicken with Chinese sparerib sauce (thanks to RP and RP's dad for the inspiration!!)
rice
broiled eggplant and zucchini
roasted cabbage
roasted potatoes
cucumber salad
green salad with crispy won tons
iced vanilla chai
pavlova with strawberries, blueberries, and mangoes

And for lunch:

everything we had for dinner, plus:
Chinese chicken salad

Good shabbos!!!! B"H! It's been a bit of an intense week around here. Decided on no lunch guests for shabbos and lots of SLEEP. :)

The Menu

Thai!

For dinner:

challah
coconut lemongrass soup
eggplant basil stirfry
roasted garden veggies
two cucumber salads (one w/tamarind and ginger, the other with rice vinegar and sesame)
broiled coconut curry chicken
coleslaw w/almonds and Thai vinaigrette
rice
mango coconut sorbet

And for lunch:

We're OUT!
And bringing challah and salad.......................

Good shabbos!

The Week

The kids and I got back from a very nice few days in Atlanta. My first time in a big city since we left Portland! :)

Highlights included:

•A great visit with my Atlanta "sister" and her kids and other former Savannahians!

•A splurge of a meal at Fuego Mundo (delicious Argentinian barbecue; to be worth paying for a restaurant meal it has to be REALLY good and this passed the test)

•Fernbank Science Center (free), planetarium show (not free, but reasonable), and great walking trails behind the center (pond and creek!) (Had we been there on a Thursday night we would have hit the free observatory program too!)

•A day for the kids at Camp Shamayim

•The indoor Farmers Market (cheese, coconut milk for $0.89/can (vs $2!), lemongrass, Thai basil, sesame seeds, green and orange lentils, admiring (but not buying) the huge variety of whole fish, several varieties of bok choy, oyster mushrooms...)

•Costco for incredibly cheap grape juice, kashkaval cheese, and deli turkey

•Last Chance thrift store

•Sensations Therafun (a little expensive at $8/kid, but LOTS of fun!)

Very fun, and all the kids were saying they didn't want to leave when it was time. But, as we rolled into Savannah and started to see familiar landmarks Amirah said, "Mama! This really feels like home! I mean, I can really feel it!" :) I agree! Nice to visit other places, but I love being home.

And B"H it's shabbos!

The Menu

FOR DINNER!

challah
home-cured olives
eggplant zaatar dip
chicken w/bbq sauce
potato wedges
coleslaw
garden salad
roasted corn
peach cake

FOR LUNCH!

challah
eggplant zaatar spread
home-cured olives
beef stew
turkey deli meat
coleslaw
corn salad
peach cake

The Menu

It's a birthday shabbos! Amirah turns 8 tomorrow (on the English calendar). So... mostly her requests, with a few of my own thrown in for good measure. :)

For dinner...

challah
lamb skewers marinated in garlic, rosemary, thyme, mustard, oil, and red wine vinegar
roasted potatoes (same marinade)
wonton soup (instead of actually making up the wontons I made little chinese meatballs and sliced the won ton wrappers into triangles; I was a little, er, short on time)
pickled beet salad
pickled cucumber salad
roasted garden vegetables (YAY!)
oyster mushroom sauté (got these at the farmers market; very meaty and delicious; we want to grow some here)
tomato basil garlic salad
meringues (supposed to be chocolate chocolate chip meringues, but that time thing got in the way again)

for lunch...
challah and salads from Friday, plus
beef barley stew
pesto pasta

and at 5:00ish...

angel food cake and watermelon for whomever shows up!

Another Week Done?

How could it possibly be erev shabbos already??? The week went by very quickly. Today we had a lovely outing to the Bluffton Farmers Market, with the mother and baby from a visiting family for good company. I got tomatoes, corn, carrots, onions, beets, red and purple peppers, oyster mushrooms (apparently easy to grow here!!), and a giant watermelon. From our own garden now we have a medium supply of eggplant, basil (large supply!), greens (large supply!), cherry tomatoes (miniature supply compare to what we want!), cucumbers, zucchini, and yellow squash. Lots of good veggies for shabbos, B"H.

Amirah was blissed out on a wonderful birthday gift of all kinds of beads and beading tools and other materials from grandma and grandpa. It was really cute to watch her unwrap each thing, with Eli by her side telling her how beautiful everything was. She was one happy girl. Her English birthday is on shabbos, so we can't unwrap presents then so we started a little early. Yesterday, she and I went out to get her ears pierced. We had a lot of fun and she loves her new earrings. After she got the first ear pierced, she looked at the ear-piercing lady, held her hand up a little and solemnly said, "Please, just give me another minute before you do the next one. (LONG PAUSE) Okay. Now I'm ready." I tried to suppress the desire to grin from ear to ear. LOVE HER!!!!!!!! :)

Database of Historical Movies

I just stumbled on this. It looks like a good resource if you're looking for documentaries and historical fiction movies to supplement your history curriculum. I noted 16 that appear to be of interest for our study of history from 1600 to 1850. A bunch won't be available on Netflix, I'm sure, and what remains may not pass the kosher test, but it's at least a very long list of potential candidates! I'm happy if we can find 4-6 (fiction/non-fiction) per year. We'll see!

In other news, DD8 is spending the night in Atlanta with a dear friend. She's having a great time and hasn't missed us one bit. :) It's nice to see her having adventures!

Today I started tutoring a bas mitzvah student! We had a wonderful hour together, studying a book called Halachos Bas Yisrael (The Laws for a Daughter of Israel). We're incorporating a lot of the narration techniques I use for learning with my kids and it was very interesting to do it with an older (almost-11-year-old) student. Loved it! Today we read the introduction, mostly focusing on women's mitzvah obligations and exemptions. Next week: morning hand washing. I feel like I have a chevrusa again (study partner) and it's very nice.

So, a good day today, in stark contrast to my decidedly sluggish Sunday. Oh, well! Now to bed so I can have a not-sluggish day tomorrow!

Garden PIctures!

Now that I've found our camera, I can add pictures of the garden!

We currently have a total of 350 square feet, and we're hoping to add another 142 square feet of raised beds by August. Our ultimate goal is 1,200 square feet of vegetables to supply our year-round vegetable needs. We'll see!

Here's what it looked like before we erased the front yard and started over. :)

Here's the whole front yard:

On the right is the raised bed with tomatoes, cucumbers, various greens, eggplant, and flowers (for bees!). In the front center is a flower bed. In the middle of that bed is part of a brick gate support that was coming loose so we knocked it down. Makes a great flower planter. I'm thinking of turning the satellite dish on the roof into a bird bath and mounting it on the brick "planter." Towards the right you can see the herb spiral that we made out of the part of the driveway we had to break up to fix a pipe.

Off of the herb spiral are four beds: sweet potatoes, zucchini, zuchinni/watermelon, and tomatoes/peppers/watermelon. Too much zucchini but it was one of the few things left that could be planted in late May! We were caught by surprise this year. I'm sure two zucchini would have been more than enough, but we have eight. Plenty to share! Couldn't just let the ground sit there.

Here's a good view of the herb spiral:


And a sideways view of the whole thing:

That's what I see out my kitchen window! I really want to take down all of the cabinets in there and add more window so I can it all better. It's fun to look out at it and very fun to eat it! We're looking forward to getting more and more done. Bit by bit. We pretty much only have Sundays to get much work done, but we've managed to get to it nonetheless. To maintain it really doesn't take long at all during the week. Maybe 15 minutes of weeding per week, and 10 minutes of my time per day to hand water and sprinkler water it. Soaker hoses are in the future, BE"H!

The Menu

What a great shavuos! Lots of lovely grownup time. Great conversations. Fun visits. Good food, though I was tired of dairy after one dinner and lunch, so we switched to meat. We mostly eat pareve during the week, with one meat night and dairy more as a garnish than a main focus. :) So... we're having a light-ish meal tonight...

For dinner...
challah
shabbos ground beef sandwiches (AKA BURGERS!) with fancy shabbos-worthy toppings
french fries
garden salad
sorbet

And for lunch...
bringing an eggplant tomato something or other
and a surimi garden salad

I might even get all the laundry and cleaning done with a menu like that. :) :) :)

And the other good news... our car is FIXED. Computer chip has been replaced and now we can travel more than 30 minutes-ish from home! :)

Good shabbos, all!!!!!