All About Bunnies

I promised you an update about the baby bunnies in our garden, so this post is all about bunnies! If you have not yet heard about our garden guests, you can read about them by clicking here.

Eastern Market

On Saturday my friend, Julia, invited me and a couple other friends to go to Detroit's Eastern Market. The Eastern Market is a huge farmer's market where you can find everything from produce to crafts to plants, and all at relatively cheap prices.

California Trip

I flew to California last week to celebrate my sister, Maia's, graduation from UC Berkeley. It is almost a year since we left California and I hadn't been back. It was definitely nice to see everyone!

Left to right: Leor, Maia, Ima, me, Etai, Abba

Garden Guests

I returned from California late Sunday evening and was very excited to go see the garden. Before I left I planned to finish the planting when I returned and the weather in Michigan has warmed nicely, perfect for tomatoes! While I was away, Jake expertly tended the garden and also discovered that we have some garden guests...

Can you take a guess as to who they are? Here is their nest.

Happy Birthday to Jake!

Today we celebrated Jacob's birthday!

The Garden Grows!

We took some time to tend the garden today. I hadn't visited for a couple days and we were in for a nice surprise — baby plants!!

Lag Ba'Omer Celebration

Last night we joined the Chabad community in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer. Literally, the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer, this holiday commemorates the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Wikipedia says it best: "Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai [was] a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and [the day of his death is] the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar, a landmark text of Jewish mysticism."

We celebrate the life of Rabbi Yochai by lighting huge bonfires to symbolize the flame of G-d which took his soul. And, if you're going to have a bonfire you should also have a barbecue!

Home and Garden

We had a full and busy day on Saturday from digging in dirt to enjoying a movie with friends. It was a fantastic day!

Firmly Planted

The weather was so nice on Sunday that we headed back after putting in the fence to do some planting.
Last week I spent some time planning the garden and drew up a quick sketch on the computer. Once we started actually working the soil things shifted a bit, but this is a good approximation of how everything will look.