War: Day 10

 A very odd day.....This morning felt so normal. (Okay, aside from a crazy amount of gunshots heard this morning that turned out to be the nearby police academy doing some intense training. They evidently announced it, but not on any group that I'm on [then again, I'm not on any exclusively-Hebrew groups, so that's what I get for living in my Anglo bubble]). But ASIDE from that, it was a very quiet day and I almost-but-not-quite could forget what's going on in the country at large. 

Today's "good deed for the country" was buying out 9 black watchman caps at a local store. Would have bought more, but there were no more. The weather is changing here and the soldiers up north are asking for winter gear. Which is not super easy to get in our part of the country because it tends to be pretty temperate all winter here. In Northeast US terms, it's chilly and we truly have some cold/rainy days, but we're definitely not the place to stock up on winter gear.  Ilana wrote on the tags, "Thank you for your service". Will be delivered along with cookies to a local person collecting.

All was going swimmingly until.....a siren this afternoon. DOH. We all made it out okay :). Then my phone really heated up when some local lists announced that a rocket had landed in our neighborhood, and several people contacted various family members to say that they had seen posts that a rocket had fallen *on our street• . I was at work then and, thankfully, knew that all my family members were accounted for. but the bomb squad even came and searched the yard of our diagonally across-the-street neighbors for shrapnel. Eek!

10 days ago, on Day 1 of this lunacy, shrapnel really did fall in the yard of friends one block over, getting them a whole-house evacuation while the police bomb squad did its stuff. 

sassy caption by friend, not me

Here's a link if you want to say tehilim for a soldier (sorry, only Hebrew). You get the name of a soldier to pray for and one perek of tehilim. It's a wonderful site--simple and clear. And I once got the name of someone only a block over (and recognized his name! Sent his Mom a screenshot :)):'

And, lastly, to go with my list from yesterday of captives' names, here are some photos.....