The Wind

We live on the top floor of our building - it's about four stories above street level and one heck of a climb up the stairs with groceries.

Every afternoon, the winds blow into Jerusalem from the west (from the Mediterranean Sea). They pick up quite nicely and provide quite the breeze through our apartment with our windows open. Because of the winds, we've only had to use our air conditioning once so far (on a unusually stagnant day).

The doors throughout the apartment slam shut and open throughout the day because of the winds and the lack of good locking mechanisms. We've requested an emergency shipment of doorstops from the United States.

Anyway, last Friday was an especially windy day and right after I posted our last post of the day (below), our bedroom door slammed shut with such a force that the window in the door shattered all over the floor. Thus, I spent the next half-hour picking up and sweeping up glass shards throughout the apartment.

I plan on leaving the window pane empty until just before we move out, lest we break the glass another time. There's really no need for glass there - an open hole will do just fine.