Summer is just about here. 20°C at 8:00am on a sunny Monday morning, means we are getting so close to summer time. Shame the kids school will become a sweltering cesspool of sweat dripping concrete walls, and humidity before the week is out. Although we saw a significant reduction in temperatures from the BC wild fires, and now that Nova Scotia has a significant burn going that smoke will reach us here in Ontario in the coming days, giving us vivid red/orange sunsets, and cooling the daytime sunshine by 5-10 degrees potentially. Will it taste of smoke, soot, ash outside? Probably not, but both sides of the country being on fire this early in the year is a terrible sign of things to come.
My youngest was bitten by a black fly on Saturday morning, and now the ete brow is swollen, and very pink. Doesn’t seem to be causing any pain or discomfort, but troubling to look at. Something we will need to keep an eye on over the next few days. Make sure the eye doesn’t swell shut, or develope any strange illnesses, like a fever, fatigue, or nausea.
We took a very sunny Sunday morning and did a bunch of tie dye t-shirts out on the front lawn yesterday. We made five shirts in total. I tried a newer (to me) method of folding up a shirt in rectangles, like a set of Venetian blinds. Looks cool. Will need to try squares, triangles, and anything else we can come up with. The kits are microwaveable, so the dye sets in two minutes, instead of having to leave the wet shirts somewhere in a plastic bag for a few days before rinsing, drying and wearing. The kids have some of those shirts on today at school. A good way to kill an hour or so. My hands wound up looking as though I had murdered a unicorn or smurfs. Some magical creature which bled out all over both of my hands. We have a very colourful patch of grass under a tree out front where the rinse water went after we were done. I’m certain we have pink dyed rocks out front as well. The dye gets everywhere. Drip, drip, dribble, dribble, drop. Happy Monday all. Ciao Bella.
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