Rain clouds

Cloudy morning

It's chilly in the mornings ... very humid with lots of dew at dawn. Rain clouds blew over us into Jordan. It was so cloudy we couldn't see the almost full moon last night. But you can feel the dampness even if it didn't rain. The ground is wet and slippery. Let's hope it'll rain and snow this winter. We need it so much. Last year it didn't rain at all and the land is parched.

And the dates on the palms are ripening. Wild parrots nip them and Palm Plaza is littered with half-chewed dates and broken branches. I pick up a few each morning for JJ and Dudu to chew. 

Tomorrow will be Mid-autumn festival ... but it's of course not celebrated here. It should coincide with the Jewish feast of Sukkot but the hebrew calendar has added an extra month so Sukkot will be a month from now. I'm hoping to receive some mooncakes so at least the asian religious in Jerusalem can celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival. Fingers-crossed that they'll arrive.