Cannon Days

Cannon days

A few weeks ago I mentioned to someone that winter days can be so damn cold in Syria. The response was that “It was cannon after all”.

I guess the cannon days are over. It is less cold now. Some milder days with rain, some colder days with sun. We are having much more rain this winter compared to the years before.

I’m already planning which vegetables to have where this year. I’ll stick to tomatoes (lots), peppers, okra, courgettes, green beans and melons… and some salad. Together with the trees and flowers that’ll make a nice mixture. Having too many vegetables near the young trees keeps the trees from growing. They still need a lot of water.

Parts of the garden are completely “weed free”. 2 big parts are waiting to be cleaned up. That’ll happen in the next few weeks.

Nothing really spectacular happened. Everybody is recuperating from the Eid.

Some tourists from France dropped in to say hello. I helped them preparing their journey and finding a chauffeur. Spent a day with the Baumann family from Canada who have been touring around Syria for a few weeks with Mohamed. They looked like they were enjoying themselves really well.

Satisfied customers are what we need. They are spreading the word around with success. More and more requests are arriving in my inbox and I do spend quite some hours providing information about what to see in Syria and how to get around.

And apart from the cleaning, the washing and the ironing, there is not much more to tell about my boring life this week ;-)