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We spent Shavuot in Waynesboro PA, at Capital Camps and Retreat Center, courtesy of the DC Minyan, who were having a Retreat there over the festival. It was very nice; the first night of the festival was an all-night learning jolly, and I managed to be reasonably coherent despite being on at 1am. I also met an LJ acquaintance, completely by chance, and talked to some interesting people.

There were some very lovely peaches. I haven't had a good peach for several years, they're nearly always picked before they're ripe, and then they rot before they ripen, or else are horribly stringy with no taste - but this one was delicious. I was very happy indeed about that.

Being a camp, there were lots of woods and things. We went for a nice walk in the woods, and found a merrily trinkling brook, and we paddled. (Upon relating this to one of the minyan people, they thought I meant in a canoe, so if you thought I meant in a canoe: we went wading. You see wading implies up to the waist, in my world. Paddling is what you do when you roll your trousers up.)

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Torah ink is a Toxic Substance!

Checking my phone messages after the festival was over, I found two messages from Vicky At FedEx. Vicky is ushering my Torah supplies through Customs (they are being shipped as Domestic Cow Hide and Sinew), and she is perplexed by the ink. It is black, gloopy, and labelled in Hebrew only, so I must fill out a Toxic Substances clearance form before it can be released.

Torah isn't supposed to be toxic!