With less than two weeks to go before we have to be back in Israel there are so many thoughts in my mind: about what we still have left to get done; about what we have learned from all our special experiences of this last year; and of course about how all this will affect our future back home. This last week brought with it a pleasant surprise - a spontaneous visit from a friend back in Israel. We have come to meet up with her in Veliko Turnovo, making one last little two-day holiday break out of our normal village routine (hence the sudden much-appreciated and unexpected use of the internet again)... so here's one more post, and quick teaser of some of the things we've experienced recently. I hope to elaborate on them and add photos once we get back home....
Lielle has celebrated her 8 1/2 birthday - and boy, has she grown up!
Our enormous sunflowers have been the hit of the neighbourhood and anyone whose seen them has asked for seeds.... it looks like next year we are going to greeted by a whole avenue of them up to our house!
Swept up with the wave of bottling and preserving that takes over the country at this time of year, we have been busy preserving 20 kg of delicious ripe tomatoes - various recipes, and already are eager to open them and taste how they came out .... but the intention is that that pleasure will await us when we next return.
On the not so pleasant side, all our chickens got brutally attacked and killed last week .... the theory is that it was probably a skunk who did it..... must be some skunks, these Bulgarian ones!
We have even been inside a UFO! But more about all that when I next get chance.
Lielle has celebrated her 8 1/2 birthday - and boy, has she grown up!
Our enormous sunflowers have been the hit of the neighbourhood and anyone whose seen them has asked for seeds.... it looks like next year we are going to greeted by a whole avenue of them up to our house!
Swept up with the wave of bottling and preserving that takes over the country at this time of year, we have been busy preserving 20 kg of delicious ripe tomatoes - various recipes, and already are eager to open them and taste how they came out .... but the intention is that that pleasure will await us when we next return.
On the not so pleasant side, all our chickens got brutally attacked and killed last week .... the theory is that it was probably a skunk who did it..... must be some skunks, these Bulgarian ones!
We have even been inside a UFO! But more about all that when I next get chance.
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