Today, they finally got around to actually paving our road, now that we've been here nearly 3 years! We were pretty sure that it would be happening soon, since they hauled in a lot of gravel last week and rolled it all down flat and nice. But we still hardly dared to hope, since they had, after all, put in the sidewalks and curbs way back last December! Anyway, the road is finally paved now, although I think they still have some more work to do, including finishing some of the other roads nearby.
They started this morning before we left on a little trip to Har Khermon. When we came back, we parked the car some distance away and walked in, since we knew they would still be paving. When we got back to our house, we were a little dismayed to see that they were using OUR garden hose to refill the water tank on one of their machines. Then they started filling another one! I went out and told them, in Hebrew, that that was MY water. The man said that they had no other source of water and the it wouldn't be a lot, so I (mistakenly) relented. However, when the hose was still filling the tank some 20 minutes or so later, David simply went out, turned off the water, and prepared to disconnect the hose from the faucet. When they confronted him, he told them, in English, that it was OUR water and to get off the property. And they did! Later, though, they tried to convince us to let them use the water, and offered to pay us 10 shekels (about $3!) for it. I'm sure that they had already used water costing considerably more than that! We did NOT relent this time!
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