wild flowers in our hair

After enduring the hottest July on record, today’s relatively cool 29C has been a blessing. It was sunny with only a light breeze but even so it seemed like August. The din of the cicada rings out in the still air. A bird occasionally sings but they are mostly silent in the heat of the day. The smell of basil lingers in the air - we harvested the majority of the two plants on the deck and are trying an experiment - frozen ‘as is’ in a bag.

It’s not a blast oven outside but I’ve still been in the pool three times by 5pm (4x by 7 and probably the fifth after I post this). With the cooler nights the water temp is dropping overnight, but an ‘early’ morning swim can’t be beat. 

The swing was the primary location this afternoon, the gentle sway almost sending me to sleep. I’m over the vaccination effects, although I felt strangely tired today.

We had the first alfresco supper on the deck in over a month. With all our pots of plants bursting with flowers and other greenery the deck is a lovely place to eat. 

After supper we lingered a while before getting the dishes in order then jumped in the pool. We have to eek every last ounce of summer out of our day! Soon we joined Olaf & Steph, and eventually Kirsten, Shawn, and Graham, for a few hours of online chatter. So much fun!

Yesterday we did a food run into the city to pick up a box of chicken hearts for the dogs and a deke into Costco (yikes!). On the way home we had the brilliant idea to text Jo Ellen and Don to see if they were free for an ‘under the apple tree’ visit. We were happy to read that they’d be here. With the hot weather we haven’t seen them for almost 2 months - where does the time go?

On Thursday I made cookies and dried some hearts, then crashed on the bed. I was wiped out and it could only have been the shingrix vaccine. Trudie called in the afternoon to invite us over for a ‘socially distant’ supper which of course we jumped on. I dragged myself but was so grateful to be with people that I made it to almost 9pm before I crashed.

 

 Headline tonight: 4,764,318 cases with 157,898 deaths in the US. There are a total of 116,599 (115,470 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 8,941 (8,917 yesterday) deaths today.

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”

~susan polis schutz