Miracles happen, even though most take a lot of very hard work and in this case, two soldiers died rescuing these two men. Which is why I don’t wear the Bring them home Dogtags. I want the hostages home very much, but the families are willing to pay too high a price. In other words – anythings. Which gives Hamas the cover to demand so much more than what the losing side should. We released 1000 prisoners for one Soldier – Gilad Shalit. One of those was Haniya Sinwar – who is the architect of Oct 7. I too would want anything in return for a kidnapped relative. But what is being asked is future hostages. It’s a hard ask. So the war will continue, and more soldiers will die. And that is the life of Israel right now.
For many years now we have been told that hate is very very bad. That didn’t make hate go away. What happened instead is that once Antisemitism became acceptable again – it exploded everywhere – especially in the West. I’m proud of everyone who fights back, I’m proud of every non Jew who stands with us. I have my own level of hate for Jews who stand against Israel – from the ultra Orthodox Neutai Karta who side with people who would murder them in a moment. To the far left -whos’ progressive religion is more important than the Jews. Such is our life these days.
I have many talents that I have cultivated over the years. And yet, I keep learning. A friend came back and asked me to Serge some items for her. I did it gladly, then she mentioned that she is looking to restring some pearls. I can do that. And I did.
I bought a new tool, an electric bead reamer. I have tried to use my manual one – it’s a piece of garbage.
I know that it is much better to be able to string the first and last pearl twice- rather than have the last knot after the last pearl. So I took my time and ordered an electric reamer.
I tried it first with a glass bead – easy peasy. Then I moved on to the pearls. Nature is so much stronger than man-made. Yes, I had my little bowl of water, because the reamer heats up quickly and must be cooled down often. Here you can see that I reamed through. It took a long time, and often the reamer would stop, because I could feel the pearl getting hot. So I only reamed three pearls. Although I was advice to have at least 2 pearls with double cord, I gave up.
the first two pearls with double cord!!! Yay! I made a knot between the first two, then a knot after the second, put a dab of glue and cut the short tail.
Not a great photo. In my research I found a YouTube that gives really good instructions on getting the knot tight. A problem I often have had. There are one or two points were the knot could have been closer to the pearl – but only I know where that is.
I am thrilled with how smoothly this has worked.
Beautifully done!
Don’t look closely at my neck! The pearls though – are great!
Ready to give to my friend to mail off to her daughter. Yes, I will do this for friends. Other people, I’ll charge you.
Leah