Snow?

... and there you go ... yesterday's 460+ views was suddenly switched to 55!!! Someone is playing around with my blog. Help!!!

Full moon on a cold night

The storm has stopped a midday today ... trickled to a drizzle but the cold is stinging. It's 3 degrees now and will drop further tonight to zero. Forecast is for snowflakes to fall but no accumulation on the ground. Just as well .... no need to shovel the terrace. The full moon can be seen clearly in the wintry night sky. It's beautiful and many people have stopped to photograph it at Damascus Gate.

Today was a very busy day ... presided Mass at 7am then armenian Mass at 9am then Bible Class at 11am and a meeting at 1pm. Came home at 3pm to eat my first meal of the day. Had a terrible diarrhoea ... probably I didn't warm the food up enough. Well work isn't finished yet ... I still have to preside at Vespers and then serve dinner and wash the dishes ... that's about 40 persons in all living in our house.

Traffic jam at Damascus Gate

The trade war between Israel and Palestine is turning for the worse as both signs are adding onto the list of banned foods. The consumer will suffer as prices of food will rise. As it is, Israel is now one point above Singapore, making it more expensive in living cost than Singapore. I guess there'll be no more special breads for me on Sundays.  

Israel's Health ministry has extended travel restrictions to most asian countries in order to avoid an outbreak of the corona virus. It's the only logical thing to do ... but it also means it should restrict entry from those countries as well. The viral outbreak is unbelievably rapid and every country is trying to catch up with its mutations. Reports are out that Israel has been conducting military drills with a friendly country affected by dozens of coronavirus victims. It has decided to continue with the exercises.      https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-holding-joint-drills-with-soldiers-from-country-hit-by-coronavirus-617015