[Dailydrool] Passover Seder with 3 bassets

[Esther Strom]

Actually, the lamb shank is called z'roa, not pesach. It's the lamb itself
that's pesach. I have to admit, this sounds like a pretty accurate
accounting of all of my Passovers growing up with 4 dogs.

Chag Sameach!

-Esther, Basil, and Waldo ATB


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Dale Rutz <dalerutz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> Oh my dear lord, this is why they call me the clueless momPerson.
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> So ..... I went to work yesterday.  The DH put the brisket in the oven and
> finished off preparations on the charosis and the matzah ball soup (I LOVE
> that man).  I came home around 4 and put the leaf in the table and got out
> the 100 year old antique hand embroidered linens for the table the the
> haggadahs (books) and made sure everything was ready.  I fed the dogs.
> Well, I fed the bassets.  We ALL know they are not really dogs.  Natalie
> was concerned about the bassets due to the impending 3 hour meal.  I should
> have listened to Natalie.  I really should have.  Next year I may board
> them.  Especially after what happened this year!!!!
>
> OMG.
>
> We started off with the dogs outside.  But then Greg remembered that he
> had forgotten to roast (well, scorch really) the PESACH (lamb shank) which
> is really, really important, the whole holiday is called Pesach in hebrew,
> this is an important part and it symbolizes the sacrifices the ancients
> made at the temples which were in turn to symbolize the "passing over" of
> the hebrew homes during the slaying of the first born in Egypt but I
> digress.  Anyway Greg went outside to scorch this lamb shank on the
> barbeque really hot and the dogs all went nuts over the smell.  When he
> came in and brought the bone but not the bassets they were furious, and
> then sad.  Gracie was sad the longest.  She cried, and cried and cried and
> barked and barked and barked.
>
> We were inside trying to conduct the seder and after about half an hour of
> barking we had to bring the dogs in to avoid having the neighbors get to
> upset.  All those food smells, the table laden with food, we couldn't have
> them in the kitchen so we blocked them in the living room.  Snoopy kept
> trying to scale the gate.  Greg stepped over it to hide the affikomen
> (hidden matzah which the kids look for later for prizes) and a scuffle
> ensued.  Snoopy got a peanut butter kong and locked in the office.  That
> worked for another half an hour.  By then we were on the second cup of
> wine.  Snoopy was barking and barking and the girls were giggling by now
> (yes, children can have all the wine they want on passover).  So, they
> suggested letting him back out.  I had also had 2 cups of wine so I
> agreed.  They were barking and playing and carrying on out in the living
> room and we had our seder without concern for what they were doing.  After
> the meal is served and everyone eats the kids go hunt for the affekomen
> while the adults finish eating.  The girls were in there FOREVER, and
> they're big now.
>
> Finally I finished clearing and we need the affekomen to conclude the
> seder so I asked what the holdup was.  Julianne told me all they could find
> was the linen napkin ..... the affekomen was gone .... apparently Gracie
> found the affekomen this year.  I didn't have dog prices and anyway they
> already ate their prize so I had to get out a fresh piece of matzah and I
> don't even know if that counts to conclude the seder.
>
> BASSETS!!!!!!
>
> More later from the clueless momPerson who is really glad this holiday
> involves so much wine or else there would have been 3 bassets in very big
> trouble!
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