1999? It is far too recent for me to remember anything. Apparently we took a vacation in Northern California (see photos). A photo (below) suggests we again celebrated Sukot. Presumably, since Leora gave birth the next year...

But actual memories? I'm afraid I don't have any... just photos.

Above: Camping with my son at Lee Vining state park near Yosemite in August of 1999 .

Left: Spring garden party in Santa Monica, California with Leora and our son.

Above: An abandoned church in Bodie, California,

Bodie California is as high and as forlorn a town as you can imagine. (It's a ghost town maintained as a State Park, and they have REAL ghosts there.) We were there in August 1999, and it was well worth a trip.

Above: Sukot in Los Angeles with family and friends, fall of 1999. Present were, front to back, Judith and Sam Troper, Andrea and Evon, Amy and Leora, Mark, Jill and the daughter of Evon and Jill. Our son is hiding back there on the ground behind Andrea.

Every year I say I will build a proper Sukah next year, and every year I haul out the same falling apart bookcases and PVC pipes and bamboo rods and duct tape (Duct Tape: God's Own Construction Material) that I used last year. Let's just call it a tradition around here.

1999

 

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