51 weeks later

Well, it's been a long 51 weeks.

I've been off the blogging world for nearly a year, because I seem to have lost my password to log in to my own blog! Can you believe it? Yeah, I know, it's a pretty lame excuse, but I have been busy...

For starters, my wife and I have been building a house up here in the Golan and as you might imagine that can take up a wee bit of time. We're almost finished with the building so it's a pretty exciting time for us.

Then, this past May, I got a one of those crazy bugs in my mind: I decided to train for a marathon. Unfortunately, it has a sad ending. See, I've been training steadily and was working may way up for the January marathon in Tiberius, but last week I strained my knee. And today I went out for a light run, but my knee was still sore. To make a long story short, I don't have enough time now to recuperate and get up to the point where I need to be to run this marathon. Oh well, I'll stick to the running though (after my knee heals).

But at least I'm blogging again!

And for those of you who stumbled here to read what's going on in the Golan these days here is my take: the land is turning green after a long hot, dry summer. Nonetheless, we need a lot of rain as Israel is on the brink of one of it's worst water crises ever. Rain up in the Golan Heights would then, in turn, meander its way down the many Golan streams that fill the Kinneret.