Another Day In Quarentine

it is 5:00 p.m. in the holy city of safed.  the Sephardi grandparents are coming back to safed.  they had to leave the rehabilitation center in hadera.  both of their families live close by there but they have decided they must come back to safed.  i offered them to stay downstairs for a month.  their house is covered with mold.  it was a vey hard winter.  i have some water damage but no live mold.  i am not doing any repairs this time right now.  i am doing the essentials this year.  i can do plastering later on.  i am not going to deal with the third floor roof apartment.  i will lock it for pesach.  and now the Sephardi family can clean the bottom apartment.

i have been eating all day long today.  i was feeling a bit unwell this morning.  i think it was a reaction to too much Windex, yesterday.  the house was cold and i had turned off the heat.  i was shivering and sockless and never got to take a hot shower.  i went to bed cold.  i would have loved to clean the stove and cooking area today but i wasn't up for it.  i have a runny nose but no fever.  i ate everything in sight today.  the gas company came with 3 balloons, so i'm set for the duration.  i did tons of laundry.  i was afraid to hang it outside so every closet door in the house has sheets hanging on it.  the Sephardi grandparents may come tomorrow.  i will have to grab up all the damp laundry and bring it up here.  i hope it will work out for them.  the apartment needs work.  i bought kitchen curtains but have never hung them up. my son took off with the rods when they moved out.  after a year, i gave up.

i actually , like looking out of the windows, which face the garden.  i would have loved to put in a new shower stall but the virus came and the money went.  it is always tricky when you deal with family.  in times like this we must all do whatever kindness that we can perform.  a neighbor stopped by yesterday on her way to the store, to ask if i needed anything.  i have not been on the best of terms with her husband of late, but i guess we must forgive and move on.  this is no time for petty judgments and old feuds.  the rabbi of the country called for a half day fast tomorrow.  i hope i'll remember.  i stayed home today but i really wanted to check out the supermarket for pesach dog food.  i hope my dogs won't bother the in-laws too much. they can get quite noisy.  both dogs escaped when the guys came with the gas balloons.   i had to bribe them back with cheese.

i think i'll take a hot shower now and get into bed under the covers.  maybe i'll have a hot drink first.  oh, decisions!  i have a basket full of sheets that i haven't washed all year. i guess i'll put them out on the porch.  it's only me here.  the sephardi grandmother said that they would bring their own bedding.  i probably have enough of everything to give them but most of my things are full of dog hair.  i gave the yeshiva my dryer.  there is one upstairs.  perhaps, i can hook it up and use it tomorrow.

i think david spade's home monologue's are the funniest and sharpest and craziest. like how his mind thinks. i'm tired of the rich and famous talking about how bored they are and how hard it is to be home with a couple of kids.  boo hoo!