So it's been a week of no blogging, but a mad whirl of busyness.
The seders were great. 75 people came to the first one, and about 20 to the second one, which was held in a restaurant. Unfortunately, some people got food poisoning after the first seder, so we had a bunch of complaints, and lots of people who were expected at the second seder didn't make it. The seders were very much enjoyed, however, and people just didn't want to leave at the end.
Which of course meant that we arrived home late - midnight the first night, and 2 the second one, and only then began our sedarim. We plowed through, though, and finished our sedarim. Matza at 5:15 AM is not all that appetizing.
In other news, we bought a washing machine. It arrived 3 days before Yom Tov, which gave me plenty of time to do the bags and bags of laundry that had accumulated over the past weeks. However, after using the machine once or twice, we obviously had a problem. It made noises that sounded like plane takeoffs, and shook an enormous amount. It shook so much that the water hose became detached from the pipe, and water began leaking all over our floor and into our neighbor's downstairs. That wasn't so great. So we had a plumber over, and tried using the machine again. The problem only became worse though, and now the machine began to jump all over the room while doing a load. So we had a washing machine expert over, who told us that the machine came with the wrong feet. Then the manager of the store showed up, and told us that we had not installed the machine properly. So the machine is now properly installed, we hope. It still makes noise, and it vibrates to the point of shaking. Does anyone know if that is normal? And now it is Chol Hamoad, and we shouldn't be doing laundry - but let me tell you, we are pretty desperate.
The weather is warming up here, and all in all, it has been a wonderful beginning to both Pesach and spring.
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1. What is the brand/country of the washing machine?2. Did you determine the source of the food poisoning?
3. You say it is getting "warm". What is considered warm in Vladivostok at this time of year?
I was always under the impression that not doing laundry on chol hamoed was "ideally" in other words, if you can arrange to do everything before Pesach, then you should definitely do that, but if you didn't get around to it and need it, thats not a problem. Am I wrong?
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