Pizza Tonight

Linda was about to start dinner tonight when she discovered that we had no running water.  Unable to wash her hands, her chicken plans had to be put on hold.  Was the water issue short-term or long-term?

This year the electricity has only been off for a few minutes at a time - probably only a half dozen occurrences in our first three weeks.  The water has been off just a couple of times. A friend has asked us how often the electricity is not working in our Bloomington house. Our answer was maybe a couple times in five years.  He also asked about lack of water. The answer to that was a definite "Never!"

I tried getting in contact with Muhammad, who heads up our HOA and is usually on top of all issues that come up and also Islam, our new bawab, (more on that development in a later post).  Islam sleeps in the pump room so should also know what is happening.  The pump is running but doesn't seem to be filling the tank on the roof.  This looks like it might take a while to resolve.

Linda decided it was a pizza night.

We have a fine Egyptian Pizzeria/Feteer shop not far down the block.

This building has everything we had hoped would develop around our apartment building.  A nice looking front door, a pizzeria on one one side and a green-grocer and convenience store on the other side.

We walked down and ordered a large pizza with chicken, peppers, onion, olives and some "spicy."  The owner offered us a couple of chairs while we waited for the preparation and baking.  The cost came to 90 Egyptian pounds, about $3.

Of course, it came with "pickles" and ketchup, almost all take-away food does.The pickles include pickled carrots, rutabaga, potato chunks, cauliflower and a few olives.

 

Pizza here is usually pretty light on the tomato sauce, but fortunately we had a jar of McSauce in our pantry cupboard just waiting for such an opportunity.  The sauce made a good addition and we had a very nice dinner and will enjoy it again tomorrow for breakfast or lunch.

 

 

It turns out that the water outage ended around 8:30 pm after about four and a half hours so that wasn't bad by Cairo standards.  I have not yet heard of the precise problem.