“Friends” Category Archive

We’re still plugging along with the remodel, in case you were wondering. I think it’s hard to see significant progress until the work is nearly done. So, it’s challenging to keep up the momentum when there is little pay-off at each step.

In fact, we may be at one of the more demoralizing stages in the process right now. We’ve moved all of the children’s belongings (other than beds) into the dining room to make the final wall rehab and… Read more »»

Friendships begun in Seattle were renewed in Boro Park! After catching up, meeting the newest neshamas (souls), and enjoying fantastic hospitality (and bagels); I realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

That’s right! Kingston Pizza!! It would have been nice if someone would have told us that there are actually TWO Kingston Pizzas: one kosher, and one not! Of course, only the non-kosher one was listed in the Yellow Pages. But when we walked in and noticed all the meaty pizzas on display, and the staff noticed us, they kindly directed us down the street to this happy place. I just looked at them and said, “We’re new in town.”

Early this morning, the Ehven House was the site of a Changing of the Guard ceremony. In this quiet and dignified exchange, the old guard (represented below by Schneur Zalman Ehven, Yisroel Shem Tov Ehven, and Sheina Shira Ehven) handed over the keys to The House to the new guard (“Andrew the Marine”, also pictured below).

Other members of the Ehven Clan were also on hand, but were too choked up to appear in person. Actually, Tatty was photographing, Mommy was… Read more »»

As I prepare this blog to receive posts from our iPhones, I have some tests and experiments to conduct (verify functionality of each author’s account, streamline formatting of posted images, establish ideal paragraph lengths and other editorial standards, etc).

So, in keeping with the principle that the best test is a real or live exercise of whatever it is we need to test – Here are a couple of images from a [not so] recent weekend away.

Our kids, along with friends,… Read more »»