it is 3:00 p.m. in the holy city of safed. we buried another young man this week in the military section of the safed cemmetery. this young man was a border police soldier. he was a commander at the 'ripe' old age of 20 years old. an egyptian border policeman went into our space and murdered 3 young soldiers. it was no accident. and it was not any battle. it was a terrorist attack. the other two soldiers were 19 and 20 years old. i didn't know about this or i would have gone to the burial.
i am pretty sure that most of the town was there. that's 2 young safed men murdered in the prime of their lives within 2 weeks of each other. it is almost too hard to bare. safed is a small town in the north. when i came in 1984; the population wasn't yet 6000 people. with the massive russian and ethiopian immigration throughout the years; it has grown considerably but it is still a little town. most people know the family of the slain soldier.
i skipped the pool this morning because the technician for my new hoover top loading washing machine came this morning. i bought the machine back in january. it took me a while to get a plumber to install a faucet and new pipes. that was after i got another plumber to unblock the sewer pipe. i hadn't used this sink since i moved here. that's almost 22 years. i couldn't get a plumber to install the machine without a technician coming to set it up and test run it. it took a couple of months for me to get the apliance store to order the technician to come to safed.
i had a maytag for many years. it was a tank. i couldn't get a plumber to successfully hook it up to the hot water tap so i used it with cold water. it was okay for anything that wasn't stained. i then had people staying in my downstairs and they used my laundry area for their machine so believe it or not; i did my laundry in the bathtub for 3 years. i had wanted to make a laundry upstairs but someone dicided that they needed the space. there didn't appear anywhere to set one up, apparently.
today, i stayed home and did 3 batches of laundry. it is amazing and so very easy. easy on the back and easy on the knees. who knew??? i did most of my towels and the spinning cycle is amazing. the towels are just slightly damp. i was used to wringing them out by hand and running way across the house with soaking wet, heavy towels and leaving behing puddles of water. how ridiculous. it is amazing how one can deprive themselves of normal comfort for so long.
i also was using a small refrigerater for a couple of years because my normal large one, needed a new chip. i needed to play around with everything in the freezer and rearrange the order so i could add other food items. i learned to put all cooked food into containers because i couldn't fit any pots in the fridge. it's actually not the best to store food in pots but we all do it. i came into a bit of money and bought myself a larger fridge. it is still not a large fridge but i am managing. it is white. it was hard to get used to. i then bought a small top loader washing machine which has remained unused for 5 months. i also bought a new computer so i could blog again. i used that right away.
my new motto is taking care of zelda. at 72, i am finally putting myself first. i am making sure that i am comfortable and that everything works in my house. i have slowly taken back my power and am trying to live a good life. i go to the neighborhood pool to relax, dog paddle a bit and get out of the house for a coupple of hours. i try to do a 45 minute stroll every day. i try to eat green. i try to stay away from too many chemicals. i want to be the best zelda i can be.
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