Sunday, 30 April 2017

I slept very well last night and got up quite lot. After breakfast, I walked down to Maccabi for my weekly blood test. There were a lot of other people there as well, but I was in no particular hurry, so I didn't mind waiting. After that, I walked down and bought a mouse for Goldfinger and then headed home with it. I took several pictures on this walk, of course, including today's pic of the day, a delicate white flower with a beautiful visitor:

I had a salad made from 2 tomatoes, a yellow bell pepper, and a cucumber, with 1000-island dressing, plus a shnitzel for lunch.

After lunch, I walked over to the Elimelech Supermarket to buy some groceries.

In the late afternoon, I joined my friend, Bassia, to visit a WIZO friend of ours who is in Ba'it B'Lev, the local Maccabi rehab facility. I started to walk home, but it was still quite warm, and I felt tired, so I stopped at the bus stop across from Rachel Café and waited for the number 6 bus to take me the rest of the way home.

At 8:00 p.m., as I was writing this entry, a siren sounded for a minute as it does every year to mark the beginning of the solemn Yom HaZikaron, when we remember all the soldiers and victims of terrorism who gave their lives to make this wonderful country a reality of us today. Places of entertainment are closed this evening and all day tomorrow, and the only programs on TV are those related directly to the memory of these fallen ones. Many channels have no programming at all. Tomorrow night, it all comes to an end with a huge ceremony on Har Herzl in Jerusalem that helps us make the transition from this solemn day to the most joyous day of the year, Yom HaAtzma'ut, Israel's Independence Day.

I walked a total of 8.3 kilometers today.