Rain, puddles and pizza

I got up late this morning. The house was quiet and I had time to enjoy my cup of coffee in peace. It rained most of the morning and part of the afternoon. A pretty heavy downpour accompanied by thunder and lightning.

At about five o'clock Jenna and I went out to do some shopping. The rain had stopped but the streets were flooded in many places. It was pretty treacherous on the roads, but I drove carefully and we got what we needed and came home. On the list were pizza ingredients so the girls could spend the evening making pizza. Yummmy!

Apart from Ibrahim misbehaving (because of boredom) it was a peaceful day.

Over in a flash...

Jenna and I went out to run some errands this evening. We went out with a list and managed to cross off everything and then we headed for home. The traffic was bumper to bumper for cars heading out of Ainzarah towards Tripoli. Thank God we were headed in the opposite direction.

As we pulled off the blacktop on to the dirt road that leads to our house we saw a fireball arch across the sky in front of us. We both squealed with delight at the same time and then we started laughing. What a beautiful sight! (A fireball is a large, very bright meteor often seen with a tail of flame.)

Tonight I looked in the news to see if there are any meteor showers and found out that it's the last day of the Coma Berenicid meteor showers. This year it's been making lots of headlines with it's spectacular shows.

A nice end to the weekend and the school's winter holidays. It ended all too quickly. The kids go back to school tomorrow.

I struck oil!

After looking for days we finally found some oil for my car ... yeah! It was more than double the price it usually is. I'm going to hoard a case or two so I don't have this problem again. Imagine having to hoard motor oil in an oil producing country... sigh...

Making sense of Libya

My car needs oil.... it's on low. Now here I am in an oil producing country - do you think I can find a couple of cans of oil?

No.... of course not.... grrrrrrrr!

Getting a good soak

It's finally raining here. I've just been hanging out at home enjoying the weather. I can look out my window and watch the clouds rolling in. It's been a peaceful day.

Cooled off

The weather has finally gotten cold here. Hooray!

The kids were outside grilling chicken tonight in the garden. It smelled wonderful and tasted even better. Unfortunately they'd eaten all the marshmallows and I had these really nice chocolate coated cookies that would have made great s'mores...sigh... I'll have to get more marshmallows and hide them better.

Happy Birthday Yusef!

It's hard to believe that Yusef is already sixteen. It seems like only yesterday that he was born. I almost lost him that day, but that's another story.

Happy Birthday Yusef!