Getting Back To Normal

it is 11:00 a.m. in the holy city of safed.  i finally broke my nightly fast and had some yogurt , pear and walnuts.  i drank my first chai tea and milk and am currently on my second cup.  it is sheer heaven.  it was hard getting through pesach without it.  i drank jasmine tea all week with fresh ginger but it didn't really do the trick.  i love my chai.  i got the grandkids hooked on it , too.  i woke up in a bit of a panic this morning.

luckily, the gardener showed up.  he has a calming effect on me.  we sat outside, maintaining the required distance; if not more, and had our hot drinks and a nice chat.  he thinks we will be back to normal; whatever that means, soon.  for sure, the world as we knew it; will never truly be the same.  let's hope it will all be for the better.

i started to put away my pesach utensils and household goods.  i got the pots sorted away and even chucked a couple.  i always feel good after i throw something out.  my mom was a hoarder.  she wasn't the kind you see on reality t.v. but still; she loved to save things and couldn't part with them.   when she made Aliyah and moved here; she brought it all with her.  it took me years to get rid of it.

the veggie and fruit truck came so i ran around the corner to buy eggs and apples.  i have grown very fond of apples lately.  i am pretty done with bananas right now. i do have some frozen in the freezer for a smoothie.  i was so excited about the truck that i forgot to don my mask.  the merchants wore masks and gloves so hopefully, i am still uninfected.  my gardener said that he read that safed had a poor rating about following the quarantine rules.  i don't know what is happening downtown or in the ultra haredi communities;but up here it's ghost town.

i am completely zonked already.  i might just watch some easy television.  i am too tired to finish putting away the pesach stove.  i need to scrub it first and i don't have the patience.  perhaps after a slight rest; i will be reinvigorated and motivated.  i can always pull out my electric stove and cook on that today.  i have a package of hotdogs in the freezer that is calling to me,"eat us, eat us'.

update:   it is now 6:30 p.m.  all pesach dishes, wine glasses, dish racks, towels and stove are safely tucked away in the pesach closet. i am having rice cakes and peanut butter for supper.  it took forever to fit the pesach stove top back into its original box and fit it on a shelf.  it also took; what seemed like forever; to get the gas flowing again on the regular stove top.  it seemed to have been jammed up.  it's all done and tomorrow i will begin to cook again.