a few days ago after almost a month of unexplained but very welcome month of blue skies , the snow began, with a storm as well, just as I was supposed to fly back home, with some flights cancelled , and major delays in new york i was relived to find my flight via Toronto is fine, I just had too many hours of waiting which I gladly used to finish my 800+ pages book. already ordered the next and last one, schedule for release next month. with the book finished and still hours to kill, i decided to crash for a few hours on the airport floor, 10 minutes later, some airport person wakes me up, not for my noise disturbance but they have to clear this area, since Israel flights have extra security and they need to clear this zone, i wish i knew 10 minutes prior, had to relocate in a half zombie state, few hours later, plane leaves on time and i began to watch movies. Arthur X-mas - well it feats the season, OK cartoon, Magic Mike, not a bad movie, but i could do with less male dancing. expendable 2- nice action and l liked the way the too old cast (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, van dame, chuck Norris, Bruce Willis) laugh about their age and catch phrases, sealed the evening with Paranorman also OK- none of the four was a masterpiece. with movies on a 10+ hours flight with hardly enough sleep the previous night, i landed in an extended zombie state and was very excited to see my brother waiting and a nice hot sun, well hot for me, he was wearing 3 layers, after coldland, this was great. my family was waiting for lots of catch up and tshulnt, i some how managed to stay awake for a few hours, then crashed.
I was told, it took a while to wake me up, it was the after noon, its good to wake up, or mess up the night and remain jet legged. that evening I went to meet with friends and have a shwarma. the simple mall food court shwarma was much better then anything they have around Cleveland, tried both kinds...mmm. we watched the Hobbit , long movie, not fit for a sleepy person, It was with some difficulty so i kept changing my sitting position (sorry random person sitting behind me), but the movie was good and worth the effort. sleep came soon after...zzzzzz
on Sunday I went with my dad for a field trip, its early in the season for wild flowers but we tried any way, and found some next to giva'at ada, photos will arrive soon after, then enjoyed a yumi falafel. we went to an acclimation farm where exotic species are researched to see how and if they can grow in our climate an to check that they do not spread disease and the like, its a decent size orchard and we sampled some rarely seen fruit (in this area)- fagoya, radiating purple on the inside dragon fruit, seen some huge fruit and heard about blue banana (on the outside) but have not seen it.
it is really difficult to blog right now , with tom trying to sit on my lap and hides the screen.
we saw the monument for the Carmel fire 2 years ago and went to some other location to find Narkisim, the paper promised they would be in a certain place, right here left there, across the cow gourd and such, we followed the directions to find this flower that should be in any corner, well we didn't see a single one so we grabbed some ice cream before returning home. later I met with friends in some trendy place in tel aviv, before entering, i entered a parking lot that had no fee listing , so i asked the guard the price, he said "don't worry sir, every thing will be OK" which in Hebrew speak means, "i will screw up later and you will pay the bill". the trendy brewery was good, tried the Dennis fish with a puree of something i hope was sweet potatoes. spent a few hours with my friends , then went to ice cream again... very hard here...
yesterday we attempted to do a part of the Israel trail, the ranger said the part we planned was very muddy and its a connecting trail with not much view, instead we traveled Afek park and the origins of the yarkon river with the adjacent old fort, saw some birds (shrakrak and siksak and some type of duck), then went to migdal tzedek, also a fort and toured he ground and walked around it- 12 k total, i almost got a sun burn, so great in December.
in the evening I went to my sister to catch up + some Michael Douglas movie which was good.
after that i do my usual routine, go in feet the cat, take the dog out, by the time honey finishes, tom finished eating, now its time to kick Tom out, since he wails inside, bring the dog in and go to sleep. the former macho tomcat is now half blind and the dog is mostly deaf, strange odd couple, well they are in their late teens, but it is good to see them too.
not sure why, perhaps the up coming promotion, school break and the good treats (krembo, shoko in a bag, zfatit cheese, milky) I am relaxed here and succeeded in solving some riddles- like sudoku but different, one type is kakuro , another is a hive like riddle , games i didn't solve before.
today we are doing some bank errands , and going to my grandmothers grave then Jerusalem.
expect photos in the evening
cheers from Israel
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