Burbara seeds

Another very cold day ... with drizzle and overcast skies. The ground is so wet and slippery it's a hazard going out. People are getting sick.

Sprouting burbara seeds
on our window sill

The beans are sprouting! They're placed on wet cotton and left to sprout on the Feast of St Barbara to commemorate her escape from Roman soldiers through a freshly sown field. The seeds miraculously sprouted to cover her tracks. Nowadays christian families sprout seeds and when they're fully grown, they're placed on the Christmas cribs as decorations. Seeds are chosen from barley, chick pea, millet, lentils ... anything green and grassy. Lovely tradition.

Was out to see my doc this morning. Woke up late - 4am. Had to go to Tel Aviv for appointment at 8am. Was late. But half way through, a call came to say that the workers in the library are sick and cannot work at the afternoon shift. So I had to terminate my appointment and travel 70km back to Jerusalem, walked another 1km in the rain to get back to work in the library. Utterly exhausted.

And yesterday we didn't have Internet connection for 24 hours. I had to cancel a class as a result. When the Internet company guys came to check the problem, they said someone pulled my cable out of the server. What??????? I was fuming mad!!! That got me into another asthma attack.