Lisa: (sleepily) Hello?
Male voice: Yeah, is this Mrs. Lisa? We're from Super Gas. We're waiting downstairs with the canister you ordered. Can you come down and show us where we should hook it up, and give us a cheque?
Lisa: It's 7:00 A.M.!
Male voice: Well we coulda been here at 6:30, but we thought it might be too early.
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Ah well, never mind. The weather has been so beautiful all week that I might as well be up early to enjoy it. The sun is shining, and mid-day temperatures have reached 21 Celsius for the past three days - although the nights are pretty chilly - so I've been spending most of the daylight hours with friends at outdoor cafes, or wandering the city. This is the huge advantage of being an underpaid journalist (and having lots of friends who work similarly irregular hours): I can set my own schedule (unless I'm on deadline) and I'm not stuck in an office all day.
I've also been having a great time playing with posting photos to my blog. Here are some I took the day before yesterday.
Mid-afternoon on Rothschild boulevard. In the background is Gili's kiosk cafe, where I met my lovely neighbour and fellow blogger, Savta Dotty. In the foreground, bottom right, you can see...my shadow.
Continuing on to the Carmel Market, this is the shop of the Amari brothers - purveyors of practically everything. Here's where I buy tehina from Nablus (the best), spices, Italian coffee, Canadian maple syrup, French jam and homemade date-stuffed cookies (on Fridays only).
This is one of the many shops in the market that specializes in imported foods from the Far East, catering to the preferences of Israel's foreign workers. I thought Rinat might appreciate its name. Doesn't the guy wearing the hat look a lot like the actor who played Cher's father in Moonstruck?
