Wikipedia: "Pterois is a genus of venomous
marine fish,
commonly known as lionfish,
native to the Indo-Pacific.
It is characterized by conspicuous warning
coloration with
red or black bands, and ostentatious
dorsal fins tipped with venomous spines.
Lionfish are a recent and significant invasive
species in
the west Atlantic, Caribbean
Sea and Mediterranean
Sea.
While culling by marine
protection agencies and volunteer divers is an important element of
control
efforts, development of market-based approaches, which create
commercial
incentives for removals, has been seen as a means to sustain control
efforts.
The foremost of these market approaches is the promotion of lionfish as
a food
item."
Cooked and uncooked!
April 2024 - Panos Steakhouse
There are pepper grinders and there are pepper grinders ..............
April 2024 - Vered and Aviv in Brazil
Daughter Vered Ron and Aviv in Brazil (after multiple flight issues lasting 50 hours). But they got there in the end. Here they at the Iguazu Waterfall between Brazil and Argentina, considered to be the biggest waterfall in the world.
March 20254 - A visit to Yaffa Loew
Second cousin Yaffa Loew was in a traffic accident. Her car is a total write-off and she is suffering from some injuries but fortunately nothing was broken. She will need more treatment and we wish her a speedy recovery. We, Doreen, her sister Louise and I, made a lunch and visited and in spite of the pain, she was her usual positve self. After visiting Yaffa we visited her brother Yaakov and Ziva and spent an enjoyable couple of hours with them.
March 2024 - Maureen Fain's 80th birthday.
and a picture of Maureen's 60th twenty years ago
Maureen and
Doreen
Maureen
Maureen
and Dick
March 2024 - Lotem amd Amit get their driver's licence.
March 2024 - A preview of Doreen's planned vegan cookbook.
The Eilatis' visit was a good opportunity for Doreen to show them how her vegan cookbook is progressing. They were very interested and promised to submit their contributions for the book.
March 2024
Son Moran and Mikhal paid a surprise and welcome visit to relative Yaffa Loew this weekend. (see Schank tree)
March 2024 -A visit to Galit Rubin
2nd March 2024 - our first day in our holiday flat in Cyprus.
After some months of negotiations we have a holiday apartment in Cyprus.
It's
on the fourth floor with a sea view and an easy 2 minute walk to the
beach promenade.
Our first meal - breakfast this morning on the verandah
Then a short drive (we could have walked 7 minutes!) to a local marina where fishermen sell their catches in a small wood shed. Today there was a large selection of fish, and octopus, squid and prawns.
We chose a labrak, which Doreen baked in the oven. It was absolutely delicious.
February 2024 -Gabi Nathan's project
We received this from Melodie and Mark Nathan ( see Nochimovitz/Nickel tree) showing daughter Gabriella's Scout Eagle Project work. She and her volunteers made 20 elevated dog beds for as local rescue organization. Well done, Gabi!
February 2024 - Congratulations Yahel and Donny
Congratulations to niece Yahel Braverman and Donny Dvir on their marriage this month. Yahel and Donny have been partners for a long time and decided to tie the knot. Congratulations too to their son Rafael and Donny's daughters Gaby and Avigael.
(see Gordon/Glasser and Schank family trees)
February 2024 - Happy Anniversary to Charles and Sheenagh
Compare this picture of the "second" traditional wedding of Charles and Sheenagh to their 'first' civil wedding.
February 2024 - Simon wine
We received an unusual bottle of wine from daughter Vered and Aviv. Simon winery is a small family boutique winery in Kfar Tivon in the north of Israel. The wine was being bottled when news of the 7/10/23 attack was heard but the bottling continued. This is written of the back label of the bottle:
This wine was bottled on the morning of black Saturday 7.10.23 as a sign of the continuing production of Israeli products in the face of the attack on our country, and is dedicated with love to the memory of all casualties of that accursed Saturday.
February 2024 - Keeping warm
We were invited by granddaughter Lior Ron to brunch at a local cafe. It was very nice and it was lovely being with her. I was a little cold but managed to keep warm.
Ziona is 95
We attended the 95th birthday party of long-time friend Ziona Glassman.
We have known her since our days in Hofit nearly 60 years ago and shared many
moments with her and her late husband in many places, including Eilat,
Sinai, The Bahamas and the Virgin Islands.
The bucket
On our first family motor home trip in 1975 we all had jobs to do to keep the motor home clean. Moran and Aviv went to empty the garbage bucket.. On the way back Moran wandered a little off course and big brother Aviv 'helped' him find the way. 😏🤣
January 2024 - Another short visit to Cyprus
We spent 3 days in Larnaca Cyprus and enjoyed the rest and the quiet. Cyprus is an ideal "get away" destination as the flight time from Tel Aviv is only 40 minutes. We enjoyed two excellent meals at restaurants that were an easy walking distance from our hotel (Hobos Steak House and Ocean Basket) and quick meals at the local Metropolis Mall, including of course KFC.
Ocean Basket
Although I do like eating at KFC (usually hot wings) my main rerason for eating there is to add to the list of KFC restaurants visited by our family.
Here are links to some previous family KFC visits
Beersheva Israel, Wuhan China, Brasov Romania, Moscow Russia, Shenzhen China, Mongolia and Istanbul,
Berlin Germany, Belfast N.Ireland, Prague Czech, Madeira, Wroclaw Poland, London., Nicosia Cyprus,
Sinai Egypt, Netanya Israel , New Delhi India, and Marrakech Morocco
January 2024 - Ari Lossin
We were saddened to hear the news of the passing of Ari Lossin, husband of second cousin Sydney Lossin (Matz family tree). We have kept up contact with Sydney and Ari and as always, enjoyed our visit to them a month or so ago. We send condolences to Ari's children Yonat and Adi and grandchildren and share in the grief of Sydney and her daughters Michal and Yael.
Ari Lossin ז"ל
1933-2024