This morning, I finally finished picking all of the olives. The grand total is 20kg. That is a loooot of olives. Next step: finding people to take olives.
Husbinator and I went to Pisgat Ze'ev today to buy a pulley so we can start hauling things up to the attic. Unfortunately, most hardware stores only carry laundry-line pulleys, and those are attached to a bolt and can't bear a whole lot of weight. I found one heavy-duty pulley, but it cost 60 NIS and it had a hook rather than a ring at the top. Since we planned on throwing a rope over a ceiling beam to hold the pulley, a hook ain't gonna cut it, and I wasn't about to pay 60 ILS for something that wasn't perfect.
Husbinatoar and I discussed our options (buy a heavy-duty wheel and carve out a line in the middle? see if we can find a pulley meant for shutters? use a laundry pulley? use the pulley with the hook?) and Husbinator had the brilliant idea to forget about the wheel of the pulley and just buy a heavy-duty carabiner. Those things are cheap and easy to find. Yeah, it'll be a little harder to haul stuff up, but it will work without a hitch. (Haha! Hitch!)
While we were walking up and down the main row of stores, it started to rain a glorious, steady rain. The first good rain of the season. I was soooo happy, and what was great was that all of the Israelis shared my joy. Well, most of the Israelis. The ones who were taking public transit and didn't have any rain gear had trouble mustering the appropriate level of celebratory gratitude.
Also, I heard this evening that the mail strike is over. I knew there was a mail strike: that's why I don't entirely understand why I've been getting mail for the past who-knows-how-long. Whatever. Glad it's over, whatever it was.
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