Carm is out on the links this afternoon, under the blazing sun again, and again with a cart. It's not as brutal as it was Saturday and luckily there's been a bit of a haze to block the full effect of the sun. So while he's out sweating buckets, I sit here on the back deck, comfortable in the shade and light breeze, drinking buckets of cold tea and lemon water. I'm well hydrated!
This morning we took Adia to see the vet again… she's been limping consistently since we were at Kirsten's last weekend. Dr. Johnson isn't sure what's going on as the xray that they took last summer never really showed anything. The current plan is to keep Adia on the meloxicam for a full month, with 2 weeks of leash walking - no running around. Easier said than done but worth the effort if we can get her fully healed up and don't have to resort to more xrays and joint taps…
Yesterday had threatening skies all day - anytime I started to venture out I'd hear thunder or see black clouds, so it ended up being a semi wasted day inside.
I mentioned that Saturday was a scorcher! I think the humidex got up to 42C… with no storms in the forecast for the day it seemed like the perfect day to have company - swimming company! Francine & Ken came by for a thrown together lunch and lots of swimming time. The fan kept us reasonably comfortable in the shaded sitting area.
The new umbrella was deployed at lunch and gave good coverage, but I think we'd need something much bigger than 10’ to fully shade the table. I didn't mind being partially in the sun though. We moved the old umbrella down to the pool level table which even gave us a sliver of shade in the pool! And a comfortable spot to sit to dry off :-)
Last week we bought a little deck chair that I'd been eyeing at liquidation for a year! I hummed and hawed and finally figured that if I've thought about it this long, I must want it… I’ve stretched out on it when I get out of the pool every day since. It's great for my 5 minutes of sun bathing! I love it!
I've been making the most of this hot weather - there's usually only a handful of days like this a year so I have to soak up every last bit of heat to help me get through next winter. I don't get much done… not that I do much anyway… except for lots of doom scrolling and even more reading! Today I was bombarded with recipes on FB… which is normally great, but today I'm doing a fast 😱 Luckily I had just downloaded ‘Fast Like a Girl’ from the library so I was able to motivation myself by re-reading bits!
Awesome!
“company!”
“a quiet afternoon to myself”
“mosa blood orange”
“my chair”
“days of pef”
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