Stick jumped up and bit me.

Serves me right for trying to beat the heat with an early morning walk, only to find it 36°C already, and the humidex above 65%. Not the environmental conditions I was hoping to find before 9:00 am, but here we are. Dogs got to stretch their legs and splash about in the river, but the overbearing heat kept things fairly light & airy between the two mutts. No big wrestling matches, not games of tag, nor follow the leader around the orchard. Just killing tongues and so much panting!

I somehow or other managed to pick up a five inch long twig that jammed itself up the tactical strap of my Crocs to run the inside of my heel/ankle and cut me until I bled. Thanks but no thanks. Itched the whole time we were walking around the woods. Cool. So that happened. Not a major upset, more of an annoyance.

So here we are, Thursday, the day after the holiday and I need to sort out a time to cut out grass. I don’t wish to do it under the full sun, so it looks like I start it around 7pm tonight, or I wake up early (yeah right!) tomorrow and cut it just after seven o’clock in the morning. I’d rather have it done than looming on my to-do list, so odds are tonight’s the night for that. I have twigs to tangle up off the grass too. No matter how many I snip out of the trees there’s always more after a storm waiting to get cleaned up. Brittle twigs are the bane of my lawn cutting career. Well, that and mowers/equipment that won’t start or run smoothly. That sucks too. Not going to lie.

Stay well in all of this unforgiving heat. My one brother in Ottawa is dealing with flooding, while we are counting every millilitre of rain that falls between the farm in Markham and the other bits located in Port Perry. Never seems to rain everywhere all at once. Always a wide variation geographically with the water distribution from the skies above.

I used the dehumidifier to water my fruit trees yesterday. The trap went off and I emptied it over all four little guys just trying to stay alive under these grueling conditions. I need to check the levels on the rain barrel. I have it out of direct sunlight for the majority of every day, so I hope to limit evaporation by having done so. We’ll see how that plays out.