Oren, my hashmali [electrician], who was in the process of replacing one of my outside lights. Tall, dark, handsome, and a lot more attractive when he smiles - and who sings while he is working! Oh, and De Dawg adores him!
Yes it sure is - that shows how close I am! The red "roof" partially showing is actually above the mailboxes next to the macolet. I had to lighten the photograph a bit but one thing is interesting. See the trees across the road? Totally bare. Now see them as they were at the end of October... The red roofed building to the left of the macolet used to be the club house for the elderly women here. It is now falling to pieces and a new place has been re-built, re-furbished opposite the macolet - just to the right of the above photograph.
OMG not ANOTHER of your delumptious men! What is it you've got that I obviously don't have ...... No don't tell me.
Did I ever tell you about Boaz? Or Yossi? Hmm - I do not think that Nir would class himself as a toyboy but he is still one of my - umm, how can I put it, "men"?
He looks very healthy Malka - find out what kind of diet he eats Actually, what kind of diet is typical there?
@Azz - diet here, presumably you mean in Israel, depends on where your family originated from, and that can go back generations. Not that I have ever asked, but Doron, Nir, Meir [one of my taxi drivers] are Ashkenazi, ie probably of Eastern European background, as am I. But I live on a Mizrachi/Sepharadi Moshav, where the founders originally came from Djerba, Tunisia, and I follow the customs and diet here. Oren [and David, my other taxi driver] are Sepharadi, David I know is of Moroccan origin, Oren I do not know but - difficult to explain but he is definitely Sepharadi and not Ashkenazi. Effie, my computer guy, is Sepharadi from Iranian background although I only know that because I met his parents and family at his wedding to the daughter of ex South African friends of mine. So you cannot really tell, well you sort of can, I mean look at the differences between Oren, Doron, and Chai who is the new lease-holder of the macolet and who lives on this Moshav... Oren Doron Chai As far as diet goes, Ashkenazim tend to eat potatoes as the basic carbs in their diet whereas Sepharadim eat rice and/or couscous, although there really is no "rule" about it - it is just what a person is brought up on, what their parents were brought up on etc. And also in which area they now live. I suppose the major difference though is in the food for Pesah [Passover]. Ashkenazim do not eat pulses, so no beans, peas, rice etc, whereas Sepharadim do. So all foodstuffs which are not permitted for Ashkenazim during Pesah are marked "bli kitniot" - without pulses. A woman takes on her husband's customs, so if an Ashkenazi woman marries a Sepharadi man she follows his customs, and vice versa. I am Ashkenazi but because I have lived for 20 or so years on this Moshav I have taken on the customs here. It is so difficult to explain, but in the 20 plus years I have lived on this Moshav I have yet to see an obese person living here, whereas when I lived in town in an area which had a lot of Russians, obesity was definitely seen everywhere.
