Long week end

It is too hot for the time of the year. Time to put away the carpets and keep the sun out of the house during the day.

This is Syria, one day it feels too cold, the next day it is too hot. There is no real in-between.

From now on it will get hotter. I hope that the heat will bring some thunderstorms at the end of each day, as it did last April and May. The rain will wash away the dust hanging in the sky and it saves me the effort and time of watering the flowers and growing vegetables.

It is definitely tourist high season. Every day, for the last ¾ weeks, there have been campers in the garden. I am never alone, although Mohamed is often away touring around with travellers flying in for a week or so.

The garden looks clean, so different from a few weeks ago when wild flowers were growing all around.

It is quite beautiful to have all these colours in the garden, but wild plants suck all the water from the soil leaving it full of cracks. As the “hashish” is coming to its end, the air is full of “pollen” making it difficult to breathe sometimes for hay fever victims such as I.

All together, it was time to take a day off and nothing better than a Friday (the Muslim Sunday) to do that.

I might extend and make it a long weekend.