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[Crankin]

I went out and got the juice and the cake is made. You have to bake it in a pan lined with parchment, which I always find hard to flatten down. But, it's cooling now.
Passover and Thanksgiving are my favorite holidays. They are essentially about the same thing (freedom) and are heavily dependent on being associated with specific food. We do a short Seder (it's only been about 10 years since I gave up using the 5 minute pre-school Hagaddah from when my kids went to JCC preschool in Tempe) and it's only my son and his wife and our good cycling/ski friends. The only Hebrew parts are the important prayers and the songs, which we cut short, because no one except my son can sing.
I have never bought a real seder plate or matzah cover; still use the ones my kids made in preschool and I cannot bring myself to do otherwise. There were a couple of seders where my younger son was in Iraq or Afghanistan and the ritual objects he made when he was 3 or 4 were quite meaningful.

[Catrin]

Hope all went well Crankin, as I am sure it did!

Trek, your new place sounds great, glad you and Knotted are happy with it! Give her my best.

My new bed was delivered today - so I decided to get a set of new sheets as the mattress is thicker than my old one. Went online and searched for sheets for mattresses that are x inches thick and my jaw dropped. SALE prices were well over $100, with "regular" prices much higher than that and I'm not talking about 600 count Egyptian cotton sheets either. For full size sheets, it isn't like I've a "California King". What kind of dope are they smoking? I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and found a nice set of buttery soft sheets that fit great for <$50. Perhaps I'm in the wrong business. It's also the first time I've looked around that particular store and I can see that I need to be careful about when I return.

I don't need to buy sheets very often, but I was really shocked at the prices - and that I found much better prices at local stores than online.

[Crankin]

Sheets are expensive, but when you find the ones you like, for the right price, generally, you should buy moe than one set, as they seem to change from year to year.
This reminds me, it's almost time to switch out the flannel sheets for the regular ones. We are still having nights in the 30s every few days, so probably will wait until May 15th.

[Pax]

I buy our sheets from LL Bean, that way if they pill up or seams fail, I can return them.