Shai's 7th birthday (familiy event)

From Shai's 7th birthday (family)

Rosenbaum's in Jotunheimen pass, Norway

Feeding Coco the crow

Now Coco already learnt how to fly and he (or she) lives out side our house.
He comes at least three times a day to eat: morning (7:00), 10am brunch, noon, afternoon, dinner, and sometime in between these for a small snack.
We must teach his how to get food by himself, but we love to spoil him so he keeps on coming.

Here is a short clip of preparing the food and calling him to come and eat.
He just hears our call and flies over, lands on our hands (or head) and crows until we start shoving food down his throat.

Gili with the crow

Gili really likes to play with the crow. She is not afraid of it to the point I have to move her away when she tries to get her face too close to his beak. She likes to feed him, pushing her fingers all the way into it's esophagus while he open is beak widely. Sometimes she likes the food we give him and she tries taking part of it for herself. Yesterday we fed him with fresh chicken breast and orange slices. What ever the crow left aside Gili wanted. I explain to her way she can't have it and had to give her a plate with oranges of her own. Any way, see below more playing around with the crow and the cat together in our back yard.

Dalia fixing the crow's broken leg

Initial we wanted to bring the new crow to a wild life reserve where hopefully they would take care of him, but apparently in Israel crows are pests and don't get covered by the government's aid for wild animals.

So two days after we took the small crow in to our home Dalia took him to her clinic to fix his broken leg.
We also asked one of the nurses in the zoo for advice on taking care of crow, what to feed him (crow's are omnivores).

Elishama group trip to Arbel mountain, Golan hights and the Kineret

Second Passover we spent with:
- Simha's (Avi, Aya, Yonathan, Yair)
- Eisner's (Tal, Micky, Or, Yali)
- Aronovich's (Aviel, Meital, Yonathan, Shir, Ayelet)
- Hovav (Nadav, Noa, Alia, Amitay, Naomi)

We visited the Arbel mountain, the Golan hights, and dipped in the Kineret.
We all stayed in Ashdot Yaakov Ihud.

Credits to the video shots and editing work goes to Avi Simha (http://www.aya-avi.com/)

Shai's "Rapunzel"

Shai created several of the caricters from the story of Rapunzel.
Below on the right you can see a drawing Shai make of Rapunzel with her golden hair and roses covered dress. On the left is the witch which trapped Rapunzel.
There where other drawings of the tower and a horse which other girls from Shai's kindergarden helped prepare so they can play out the whole story.

Check out the very nice details and use of color in the below pictures.
The witches broom is filled with several different shades.
Rapunzel's dress is filled and meny small and details rosses - not simple and requires a lot of patience to draw.

Trying to help a wounded crow

I noticed a wounded crow on the sidewalk during the day. It seems his parents are around and looking after him, but as night fell we understood no one is taking care of it, feeding it or getting it water to drink.
We took it in for the night and we'll try to bring him to a bird rescue tomorrow.

He does not fly yet and it seems one of his fingers is broken.
other than that he seems nice and even lets us feed him by hand.

I'll keep you posted

Some info about "Crow's as a pet" and another one in Hebrew.

Here is a nice crow video's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg&feature=related

"Not lucky" first 12 hour of my 41st birthday

I had a 'not warm' welcome to my 41st year.
During the first 12 hours that started my birthday I had:
1. A flat tier which I replaced at 21:30 in the evening before the birthday
2. My eye got infected badly and burned most of that night
3. In the middle of the night Gili woke up with 38.6 fever and did not let me sleep much
4. On the way to work in the morning some lady 'touched' my car with her's in the traffic jam on 531 road.

Definitely an interesting 12 hours to start the new year for me.
I hope the rest of the 12 months now will be smooth with all your blessings :)