Snow on Hermon!

My Mr Dog shoes

Another storm broke last night and the temp. has fallen drastically ... down to 6 degrees but actually feels like 2. So says the weather forecast. Even the Polish guys feel cold ... so that's a good indication of  the weather now. And Mt. Hermon has snow for the first time this year! Let's hope this keeps up for the next weeks and into Christmas. Would be lovely to have Christmas in the snow. I've got my Mr Dog shoes out ... yup, it's that cold.

For the past several nights I've been having bad asthma attacks.  Must be the cold. I've got the heater on but it's not enough. Ventolin puffer is close at hand ... The headaches have mostly gone; it's the side effect of the medicine I'm taking.

Well one thing good about the cold and wet weather is nobody goes out to cause trouble. The streets are serene, tourists hardly anywhere as the 1st two weeks of December are notoriously low season. Tourists may come back during Christmas but we don't expect many because Christmas is primarily a family celebration and people prefer to remain at home.

And just received one piece of upsetting news - someone stole Rocky. We feared sooner or later Rocky would be stolen because he is such a nice dog and the arabs in the Bethlehem area are known to be dog-stealers. Rocky's chain was snapped and the thieves probably jumped over the fence. Fahdi the present owner is still frantically searching for Rocky ... and me and Ahmed (Rocky's first owner) are very upset.