Sneaky the cat

yesterday was the international cat day. ( I did not know but my son texted me from Europe).

so I decided that it is a good time to make an homage to sneaky the cat.

Sneaky was a stray cat. I saw him for many months sitting on the trash cans in the street.

It was his territory and he did not let other cats to live there.

When Edmund the cat decided to come to live with us about a year ago, Sneaky watched him very carefully.

at the beginning he just ate with Edmund and kept him company at meal times.

Slowly he began to trust us. (me and my son).And now, after a year he is calling me in the mornings if I am

late and he wants his meals to be served in time.

He wants my attention when ever I am sitting on the porch. I don't sit in the porch very much this days so 

he is knocking on the door and calling me out.

I noticed that cats are indifferent to the alarms, unlike dogs and humans who get very scared.

happy is the believer

(All the photos here were taken by my 4 years old granddaughter with my iPhone)

We were so sure and happy because we really believed this is the

end of the war. So we went out after a month to near by restaurant.There were 2 quiet days. No more.

minute after the end of the ceasefire, 8 o'clock in the morning Hamas renewed their rocket fire.

At least we had a very happy and quiet (OK, relatively quiet with 3 kids- 2, 4. 5 )evening in the restaurant

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back to lazy gardening

I started this blog as an experiment. I wanted to improve my English

and to get over my fear of loosing my privacy.I  know that every thing that

you post in the Internet will stay there forever and am not sure about it.

This blog was almost secret. Shirley from Australia was my one and only loyal

reader and I was happy with that. 

The war brought more people here. Most of them really helped me

to pass those scary days. There were also some negative and full of hatred comments which I 

deleted.

I did not bomb Gaza. I am a grandmother who does not want to be hurt by a missile and 

don't want my Grandchildren to get hurt.

I hope that from now on my blog will be more happy blog.

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Now it is time to go back to my lazy gardening.

Dose any body knows what is this flower and how should I keep it alive?

peace and quiet

Ceasfire now. five minutes before it started there was a missile barrage all over Israel.

Now it is quiet for 2 hours.

I still have that Gas masks that we did not have to refresh this time.
(Those boxes above are our gas masks from onother war. We have to keep them just in case...)

day 26

These were not the August sky this morning. More like a winter sky.Sky of war time.

I hear in the news that tomorrow will be the final ceasefire. They tell us also that this night is going to be a dangerous night as  nights before ceasefire are.

And this is what I sent to Jhon's( from Going gently) competition

Escapism

October, 2009, Palermo, Sicily.

small decisions- day 26

To take a shower in the morning or the evening?

What to wear at night before the run to the shelter?

Leave the car window open while driving to hear the alarm?

To break my diet now because I might hurt by a missile and who cares anyway? 

To respond to the blogger who claimed that Israelis are paranoid?

day 26 and I am keeping my war routine and going in few minutes to take care of my Grand kids in the protected room.