What a cutie!!!
At little kid’s wedding, the ring bearer was a yellow lab. 
The couple decided that rings were much safer with the pup than with the friends’ toddler who also was considered for the job. 
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@BunsenBurner - D1 is already sending me flower pictures that she wants the pup to wear around her neck at the wedding! She is ordering some type of little closed box that her husky will carry the rings in and he will wear a bowtie. Pups will be the flower girl and ring bearer (no kids at the wedding).
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For nearly a year I’ve been project managing a condo reno for my D from about 50 miles away - I’ve done renovations before, she has not. It started slow but by January we were in full swing. I hired true craftspeople to work on the condo in various capacities - and I did hire a local company to reface the kitchen. Everyone stepped up to the plate, honored their commitments and most finished on time and all in budget. Today we finished! Sunday is move in. The worst part was figuring out building permits in the City of Los Angeles - wow - not for the less tenacious out there! I’m on first name basis with the inspectors now 
- the tiki bar is officially closed! Welcome to what I’m calling modern artist chic. D designed it all, I just shepherded it to completion.
A few before and after photos…
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Mlawa! A Yemenite flat bread, tastes amazing! For my 75th birthday party last Sunday, my Israeli fried up a bunch (should be served hot with grated plum tomato) and now that they went home to Israel, I have several in the freezer. Lucky me!
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Here’s an approximation of how she did it:
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Also, we finished furnishing the sitting area on the lower level with two chairs, a braided rug, and a small accent table I found in my favorite secondhand store in town:
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The befores are so awful, it almost seems a shame to have gotten rid of them! Those cabinets! (I don’t get how stair cases without railings on the open side can be legal, they certainly aren’t to code here in NY.)
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Ok, I just have to say that I’ve been thinking of putting cobalt 4x4 tiles on my bathroom walls!
I love the colorful updates though.
Yes! The DIY bamboo was a hot mess!
My favorite inspector “suggested” adding a railing and said that likely next year they will be mandatory. D said no railing - so unless she does any add’l reno requiring permits there will be no railing.
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Go for it! Color makes me smile when I enter any room.
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It doesn’t matter how many times I have seen her, the Statue Of Liberty still gives me goose bumps when I contemplate that this is the first view of America my grandparents experienced. Taken from a dinner cruise earlier this week.
On a separate note my dog loves her toys and I love making her happy which makes the CHEWY people very very happy.
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That third photo – plumeria?
Yes! I grew it from a stick. ordered on Amazon from some seller in San Diego.
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Juneteenth at a community garden in Chinatown/Lower East Side, Manhattan. Great music, wonderful poetry by Alice Walker, Angelo Geter and Margaret Walker (with a poem by Amanda Gorman in the program), excellent food, and I got to see many old friends from my daughter’s long-ago elementary school, where our kids started 4 days before 9/11/01. And the garden is just beautiful.
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On a recent visit to Tallinn, Estonia, I was very much taken by the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Due to the limitations of my old iPhone, these pictures really don’t capture the sheer beauty and majesty of this church.
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