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It’s a bit of a pass time for me, as I have written quite a few of them over the years. My Amazon review views used to be up over 100K, but went down to 60K during Covid & the prolonged shut downs. And now my Google Maps reviews are starting to kick in, which is kind of funny. I’m no connoisseur of fine things, or crap things for that matter, but I’ll spill some tea if it means somebody else has a better expectation going in, than what I had. Manage your expectations of reality and you will be far less dissatisfied with the things in your life. So yeah, is it clean, bright & open, certainly is, but expect to pay a premium on everything because it’s in a remote location and it’s the only shop around for 45 minutes in any direction. Expectations managed. Hot food is tasty, but don’t go if you are in a rush because the service wait times are terrible. Take the good with the bad, manage what you expect to happen, and you will be far less irritated by things.

You’ll still get annoyed by unexpected stuff, but if an outcome was to be expected, and you wanted it not to be so, then you’re the dum-dum who thought the world would be different “just for you”. How entitled!

Found a good deal, I’ll pass that on. Find a did, I’ll let everybody know that too. Something isn’t as advertised, or they tried the bait & switch, then I’ll warn you of it and you can act accordingly. It’s not about review bombing, or chasing clout (clout? What clout? I warn folks about lengthy wait times, or price increases, or shady sales tactics, I’m not getting famous, or extras just because I’ll spill some tea). Just because an experience didn’t go as planned for me, and my group doesn’t mean that every other group should suffer the same way. A tip here can help temper expectations of what reality will actually produce.

Now there are other factors to consider too. What I might consider to be ho-hum may very well blow another person’s socks off. What they find full or tedious might just be the deep dive of a topic I hold near and dear. For example; I absolutely love behind the scenes content on Bluerays & DVD’s, especially from things that were pre-internet/YouTube. It used to be really hard to know what was going on with movies if you weren’t directly in the know, or have an insider feeding you gossip/rumor etc… now they play all of that up as an extension of marketing, but having 3 hours of pre & post production interviews about the art for sci-fi films, the music, the sets, the costumes is my jam! My wife hates that stuff. I eat it up. Janty Yates talking about helmets for The Martian!?! Yes please, tell me more. I don’t think you could bore my wife more than to pepper her with those details. Watching folks build sets for films, seeing their painting techniques — ooh ooh ohh oh yes! But not under my wife’s watch though please, she would rather not. But I would. I’d take notes too, and use it on my next miniature terrain building exercise for war gaming.

Hell I love watching a fair few machinists on YouTube build stuff, but 8 know my wife & kids don’t care for it at all. I like watching metal fabrication, and wood working videos too. Shop infrastructure builds and organization? Sign me up. I love to see a space get cleaned up, organized, and optimized for use. Gives me ideas on how to make my space more functional. I can dig it.

Is Hans Zimmer going to talk at length about music for Dune or Bladerunner 2049? I’ll listen in on that. Extraordinary! Show me how you think of things like that. How does a musical brain work? I find it all so very interesting to see. Probably why I also love watching people paint stuff. Objects like miniatures, or busts, or water colours, oils and acrylics. Landscapes, seascapes and all manner of other things. I can’t paint worth a damn. I don’t do it very often. Maybe once a year on canvas, if that. I doom scroll instead of doing stuff. It’s a weakness.

On the other hand 8 have three sculpts on the go right now, so that’s kinda cool (I think). My Aves epoxy Hellboy, a chavant clay Goblin king which is just an early torso work up right now, and a foil covered armature for a potential fair entry made of Super Sculpey that needs to get built, baked, and painted before October. Failing that I have a ninja turtle I made that just needs to get painted. We will see how things shake out once the kids go back to school in September.

So go ahead write a review. It might just save somebody a melt down or a very long (but to be expected) line up. We might thank you for it later, or not.

That’s a considerable chunk of my life spent here as a naturalized citizen. Gotta say baller move on my parents behalf. I have no idea how things would have played out if we had stayed put in England. Same, better or worse? I could never say for certain, but here I met my lovely wife, and now have two funny little children and a dog. I was pretty small when we left everything, and everyone behind to come here in the middle of the night, amongst the largest electrical storm I had ever seen, from out of a 15th story window with no coverings. Our first night was restless, and a real doozy. I have no idea if those two things were a part of the same day, but besides walking into this old green & white burger joint with my mum, those are the only memories I have of the first apartment we lived in upon landing here. We moved a lot. I have a terrible memory, and am bad with dates. It all runs together for me.

Still — Canada, a pretty great country. Could have been someplace in the US, or even farther away into Australia for that matter. But my folks split the difference and here we came. Ontario Canada. It’s a big province, and we moved around inside it a fair bit. Never up north to Thunder Bay or Timmins, however we did criss cross Scarborough, Rouge Hill, Centennial, Guelph, Erin, among other such places. I think that we determined my parents have moved something like 18 or 19 times while living in Canada. Across the country at that! From British Columbia to Ontario, and back — again.

All of us have moved around, far more than many of our lifelong friends whose parents still reside in the homes that they were born into. To have roots that deep in a place feels foreign to me. My kids are the same, all they’ve ever known is this one house. Never needed to change schools, or bedrooms, share a bedroom, undergo construction inside the home while they live there. If we can help it we just might stay in this house until we retire! Imagine that, no need for me to move again! What a blessing. I have a hoard of tote boxes just for such an occasion. Now I’ll save them for my kids going off to college / university / trades school.

Which reminds me I am putting together a spare tool box full of essential items for my oldest because she’ll be out of the house, and off to some type of post secondary education before I know it. A sturdy tool box with a hammer, screw driver set, a pair of pliers, and some hardware for hanging/fastening things. Not a major expense but it should at least be helpful while she is away from home.

Forty years in Canada, which reminds me I need to remember to renew my passport before 2026. So many things to remember! Feel that cool pre-autumn chill in the morning air. Love it!

Trying to get out and do some fun family time before work starts up again tomorrow, and for a family of four it was a full sixty dollars to do eighteen holes of Ship Wrecked theme outdoor mini putt. The greens were pretty rough, torn up & thread bare in a number of places too. Place was busy too. So I know at least one place that’s making some money these days. Almost all of the driving range slots were taken too. I don’t recall what a large bucket of balls goes for these days, but I’ll bet that pays pretty well after a sunny day around here.

Sunday-Funday is here and we are making the most of the time we have left with Mum here at our finger tips. Come tomorrow morning it’s just Daddy dearest and both kids, plus the dog. We ordered in breakfast, had a bit of a lie in, did some (expensive) mini putt, and then we will all head to the farm to walk the dog, and pull weeds in the strawberry patch. The new one that is. They let the old one go to thistles and then tilled it under because the weeds strangled out the strawberries so they could not produce any fruit. I’ve put hours over several weeks into upkeep on the older strawberry patch, but planting new is easier than maintaining what you’ve got, I guess.

But I digress. My wife’s family are big on farming, planting new stuff, just not weeding or maintaining fields in any appreciable way. By now the thistles in the pumpkins are over five feet tall. You can no longer use a weed eater on them. Far too fiberous for that. No trim line, wired or not, would stand up to the thickness of these “Day of the Triffids” like weeds. Pruning shears, loppers, an electric saw would suffice now. Hours of bending low and cutting them out might make pumpkin picking a bit more attractive come October. Seven foot tall weeds are not very picturesque during the golden hour of sunset.

Every fall, and early spring before planting they should go out there with a propane torch and blast the soil to kill the weeds, and their dormant seeds on the surface. Till it all then torch again. Then plant the pumpkins. I’m not talking about flame torching 1,400 acres, just the 4-6 they use for pumpkins. A near little wagon to hold your tank and a good long hose, and whoosh, off you go roasting weeds, weed seeds, and other such pests. Should give it a go at least once to see if it makes any difference for the harvest time, and all the folks whom come by for photos with pumpkins, sun flowers, and the colours of the turning leaves.

School starts in eight more days, so the kids are starting to get their back packs, pencil cases, and lunch bags sorted for a fresh new school year. Onwards & upwards! Looking for their glue sticks, rulers, pencils, crayons, markers, scissors and the like. They put a lot of effort into decorating their bags too. Individual key chains, and bits of flair which they adorn their zippers with. Puff balls, stuffies, sparkling things etc…

Which reminds me I need to go grocery shopping and start gearing up for packed lunches again. I’ve had nine weeks off of having to wake up & pack them / prepare them. Best to have a sit down and figure out what exactly it is they intend to eat for lunch. I get frustrated if they ask for things which are time consuming for me to produce, but they then don’t eat, and I have to throw out the next morning because it traveled to and from school and wasn’t even looked at. We have well traveled lunches around here. I’m feeding the green bin bags, and the dump as opposed to my kids. Not cool.

I bought a 64° wedge last summer, and today I have a 52° showing up in the mail, along with a 15′ ball retrieval extension do-hickey thing. I have neon coloured balls coming tomorrow, because I have been donating balls to courses at what I feel is a heightened rate, because white is too plain to see. I think a neon pink would be far easier to spot. I hope! But, back to the original question, is two too many, or do people actually use all of the degree options available between the two extremes that I have now purchased? I suppose if you play weekly it might make sense to have a wide array of wedges, irons, woods, hybrids and the like. I have played twice, and I could very well squeeze in two 9 hole rounds or one 18 back at Lyndhurst again, since all four of us got rained out in a (much needed) heavy downpour. Now I have rain cheques to use as I see fit.

I held off on fairway woods because I was pretty happy with my 9 iron most of the time, but I found a used one that was a hybrid (I guess?) and also picked up a smaller headed driver that also works as a wood too. I wanted options to have. Not so many I’d be paralyzed by choice, but something in nearly every category that I could draw from when needed.

My golf clubs were bought off Facebook Marketplace and they have a 3, 5, 7, and 9 iron only. Which I think is ok, because for the longest time the only club I could hit correctly was the 9 iron. I have used my 3 once, and I am not aware of having used either of the other two. I downloaded a few pages of cheat sheets that tells me when is a good time to use each type of club, and for irons, which number, but I failed to even remember I had such data at my finger tips when we played on Tuesday afternoon. Oh well!

I see you can have irons that run from 1 through 9. I have a tough time imagining anybody but a pro, or Pro-Am player needing that many options. Terms like too much club, or too little club are meaningless to me. I’m not sure if I’ll drive for 225 yards, or 25 after bouncing off a tree, or scorching the grass with a worm burner. And if I do make contact it’s a one in three chance I go hard right, hard left, or straight down the middle. A clear swing path is something I do not have defined.

I have not spent enough time building up muscle memory in order to have a set swing path. Am I wide, shallow, too open, too flat, drop an elbow too soon, twisting, have no follow through. I do not know. I’m just glad when I hear that pure clack sound and the ball takes off. Now I’ve read that the driving range doesn’t translate to the course. What helps on the course is playing on the course. I will say I’m getting tired of three putts. I had some fantastic near misses with one putt chances, but I tend more towards three putts to go well into double par territory (at best).

So rather than pay money to blast balls at the driving range, which was my go to for a fun, short, mostly inexpensive outing, I am now opting to just go play somewhere inexpensive in the surrounding area of York Region. Lots to choose from (golf courses that is, maybe not inexpensive ones).

But before I get carried away with golf I do have to be available for my paid day job (though that has become slower as of late than usual). I also need to complete some wood working tasks that I have gotten started but still need to assemble, sand, and apply finish. I could also take some time to build myself some bedroom furniture for the cottage. My room is still just a bed, and a tiny side table. I need a dresser (of sorts) to place things on, and in. Doesn’t necessarily need drawers, but separate cubbies would work as well. Not too big, and not too heavy either.

So how many wedges do most of you have. I think I’m good now with two. Steep and steeper still. I find it not to bad to flop and roll with the one I have now if I’m not standing too strangely on an angle when I swing. I do have trouble guessing at how hard or soft I should be. I don’t encounter these situations enough to know anything like that yet. I also don’t know how to induce a top spin, or back spin for not launching a ball across a green once I get within 80 yards of it. Seems like I’m just swinging for the fences, or moving forward ten feet at a time. I get loft when I don’t want it, and send balls screaming across the grass tips when I wanted to go high. I have lost all control over my body when a golf ball & club enters the mix. It is frustrating.

Either way I have an inexpensive second wedge coming today in the mail. It is out for delivery as we speak, so it could arrive at any moment! Exciting. Then I need to sit down at my computer and put a few more pages of my report together. Anything I can get done today, and tomorrow is something I don’t have to do come Monday when I’m home alone with the kids after my wife returns to work.

Everyday now my youngest asks me how many days are left of Summer Break before school starts up again. Each time followed by a long “Awwwwwwww”, and a series of high pitched whines. It’s kind of amazing. Though she is looking forward to seeing all of her friends each day for recesses and lunch, she isn’t too fond of going back to sitting still for hours at a time, facing front, doing work sheets, reading, and math. Can’t say I blame her, the summer is way more fun. Games, swimming, farming, being at home, the farm, Grandma’s house or the cottage is far more free than sat in a classroom. Plus you get to read whatever you want at home! Dog-man, Captain Underpants, Dr Seuss you name it, all more fun than a math work sheet. I can see her point. Still gotta learn though. Back to class with you!

My eldest is keen to get back into the classroom. She has thoughts on teachers and potential classmates. She isn’t real big on the disruptive types being lumped into her classes all the time. But given the temperament of most eleven year old boys I suppose they would all likely fall into that category unless they are extremely introverted, shy, quiet, or just as studious as my child. That is saying a lot. Regardless, the older one is excited for school.

Before you know it we will be neck deep in the Markham Fair, Thanksgiving, and then Halloween and pumpkin stand season. Everything picks up speed between September and November. So much going on once the school year kicks in. Dance, Girl Guides, Tutoring, Climbing, Taekwondo, plus PTA activities surrounding the school. Work typically picks up in a headlong rush to Christmas break. Somewhere in there is my wife’s break week for her school, which means travel of some sort, or local day trips & activities.

We will have to pick & wash pumpkins, gourds, squash, and sweet corn. In November we will be planting garlic for next year, and adding all of our newly acquired tulip bulbs to the garden beds. Plus all of the leaf bagging, mulching, and yard clean up. Not to forget decorating for Halloween which covers a large percentage of our front lawn, and trees, and porch for some of September, and all of October. We like the spooky season. Oh! And Halloween Haunt visits to Wonderland in the evenings for lights, atmosphere, smoke machines, and characters in costume scaring passers by. It’s a hoot!

Life really does kick into high gear once September rolls around. I forgot to fill out the preferred classroom placement form for the kids in regards to friends they’d like to move forward with. I had done it every year and in most cases our wishes were ignored, so I put it on the back burner, and promptly forgot about it. My fault. I should have done it the day I saw it in my inbox like every other school requirement email. But I did not, so it was left blank, for both kids. D’oh!

We have working back packs, and I cleaned the lunch bags on the last day of school which was a half day. We have pencils, erasers, rulers, scissors, pencil crayons, markers, glue sticks all on hand. They have working pencil cases in their possession so I don’t see much need to go shopping for that stuff right now. We donate lined paper, notebooks, Kleenex, and what not to each class our children are in, so everything is mostly covered at this point. Luckily they do not need laptops for school just yet. That might be a high school thing, or a hand mobility thing, I’m not sure. For now pens, paper and pencils are the gold standard. I’m good with that.

Next Friday at 3:00 pm we will receive our child placement emails from the school. The school shuts immediately thereafter in order to brook no arguments about child placement. I can dig it. Nothing is set in stone until early October anyway, as kids come, go, and get shuffled from teacher to teacher across classrooms right up until then. No point getting angry or excited until you see how it all officially shakes out, in my opinion. Our hope is that they end up with a teacher they can relate to, and one or two good friends to commiserate with during the day outside of recess/lunch breaks.

Happy Friday morning to you all.

It has taken me the better part of three months to get from the 50 lb grips up to the 150 lb grips, but I am very carefully making my way up to the 175 lb, and I intend to top out around 200-250 lb per hand. I suppose much of it depends on how much weight I lose, maintain, or gain over the coming months. If I can get myself below 180 lbs then the 200 lb grips strength should be enough to have helped me climb a little easier, but if I continue to balloon back up towards 215 lbs, then I will absolutely have to push my grips to be able to hold 250 lbs. No bones about it. The 300 & 350 are just ridiculous, and I was never going to go that hard with it. Funny to see them in my collection though. A gorilla would have no trouble with them, me on the other hand, not even if I stood on them! Ha.

I have twelve of these grip trainers, so 8 had to build a way to hold 90% of them neatly. I got into the garage the other day to smack two bits of wood together, so now I don’t have a pile of them all over my dresser, looking messy and shit. I did not realize some of the springs were a smaller diameter than the others so unfortunately at least two or three do not fit. Oh well. 90% cleaned up is better than none!

Climbing starts back up for us in about two weeks. If I can stop snacking so much, drink more water, and keep up with the push-ups and leg raises I might actually have a fun first week back without my limbs seizing up on me. I even tried to spend some time dangling to really test my shoulders a few days back. Not really in a place where that felt good.bi have to be more serious about weight loss. I’m positively pudgy. Rotund even!

I can get them to parallel but not to the point where the ends touch, and make a very satisfying click. Once I can do that successful 15 times in a row each hand for about a week straight, I know I can test the waters to move up another weight class on grips. So currently I warm up on the 125’s, hit the 150’s, and then struggle to close out the session on the 175’s. I’ve worked that way all the way here, so it’s doing something positive for me anyway. Onwards to 200 lbs!!!

With the number of days left dwindling down to the last dozen or so depending on where you live, we have entered the mad dash portion where we try to accomplish “All The Things”. Whether that is meeting people, going places, doing tasks we never got around to, or trying to pack new experiences into the kids days, it is a very hectic time. I’m oddly sore from yesterday’s very rainy round of golf. We made it nine holes before it was just too heavy a downpour for us to continue. It was pretty mental. Nice and quiet though with no pressure from groups playing behind us — as there were none. We were it. Ha. I only play in extremes it seems. 40°C+ temps, or in a raging rain storm.

We also shoe horned in another Wonderland visit, vet appointment, blood work lab visit, oil change, and fair entry building session with friends for both kids. Can you tell my wife goes back to work on Monday? We also had a big family lunch/swim yesterday with cousins, after my daughter had a near sleepless sleepover with her friend.

I’m a tad achy in the hips from golf, but it was nice to be out & about with my wife, and some friends and no kids attached at the hips. We were all terrible, but we all managed to hit at least one great shot, and a decent single putt drop on the green. More than enough to keep coming back! Ha.

I’ll be back in the office today after a brief stop off for an oil change. Back to regularly scheduled day job responsibilities. I have a few items to process and send out for review by end of day today. Have a good Wednesday.

Annnnnnd it’s raining. Perfect. A light drizzle won’t stop us from stomping around the golf course with our carts etc… I still believe that it will be a good time. Tee off is at 1:40 pm, and the radar says the rain should stop around 2:00 pm so just a slight inconvenience, nothing too major provided there is no electrical storm hidden in amongst it all. I don’t fancy getting zapped swinging a club for the second time this summer. Lame way to go when I’m not even good enough to bother keeping score yet!

I have our umbrella, and golf shoes, and clubs packed ready to go. I think my wife and I will play best ball until we hit the greens, then it’s every person for themselves at that point. It should also keep the pace of play moving along at a good clip. I also don’t spend more than 30 seconds looking for a lost ball in the rough of OB areas. But, I will pick up errant balls I find to restock those which I gift to the tree line, ponds, and long grasses. If we had a gallery watching much of those would be easily found & marked by spectators. So not counted as lost. I saw that little house rule on an Instagram short reel.

Not long to wait now before we venture out. Whee!

**It absolutely poured on us. If we hadn’t needed the rain so badly I might have been mad about it. But as it was we had no groups behind us, and made it to 9 holes before it was too heavy to continue. Rain cheques for 4 people & 9 holes with carts to go home with too. Not a bad afternoon outdoors with friends. Until next time!

If I recall correctly I bought my Rawlings baseball glove at some point when I was in university between 2002 and 2005. Which puts my glove at twenty years old, on the conservative side of the count. I used a break in oil, wraps, and a ball form for many of those years, and the tough leather never did give much over that time. I still find myself bending, punching, mashing, and twisting the glove to make it more nimble in my hand. It wasn’t until last year that I noticed the top most layer of the leather was crumbling, and chipping off. So I bought some glove butter to try and restore the leather a little. I’m well aware of how far gone it is, and I wasn’t looking for a cure all, just something to make what was left a little softer, and more supple. And you know what? After slathering the stuff on, and scrubbing it into the leather with a nylon bristle brush it seems to have worked out. I did attempt to wipe off the excess afterwards, but there really wasn’t much that didn’t get pushed directly into the battered hide. Maybe I’ll remind my daughters to take better care of their gloves than I did, and offer them the chance to condition their leather way before it gets to the stage mine was at. Still is at unfortunately. No saving mine at this point. It still works, but she’s ugly as sin.

I have dye in my leather working tool kit so maybe I will take a chance and darken the deeply battered portion of my old glove to hide my neglect. Or not. No point making it worse right?

Showing its wear and tear very honestly. Wish I could say it was from lots of use, and not from the chemical I used to work in the leather left far too long, and allowed to eat away at the hides surface. Silly me.

Hard to see but it actually looks better to the naked eye now after a good waxing than I did earlier this morning. The nylon brush bristles took a great deal of the chips & flakes off the surface. Hopefully now when I play catch I won’t have tiny orange speckles all over my hand when I’m done with it for the day, like I used to get before. Time will tell.

Oddly enough the back side looks so much better. I do not know if it has better leather, or if I just didn’t bathe that section in the chemicals I was using to break in the netting / palm portion. Oh well. Live and learn.

To start off with, first.) I am seven episodes into Department Q on Netflix, and while it has gotten better, albeit a tad convoluted, and suffers from some pacing issues (in my opinion anyway) it is an ok show. I might venture to say I like it? I suppose. Now I just want to know how it ends.

Second.) I did get a foursome for golf booked for early this week, though now my ankle has decided to be a bit shit, so I don’t have much hope for it not being a mess tomorrow. I am however excited to get out with my wife, and a few friends for some childless outdoor fun. We are going to a course which my wife frequents for work/staff events, so by all means should be a good time. She is a fan of the cart paths. Sounds like fun.

Third.) Dog has his vet visit today so that’s is likely going to cost me a bundle for needles, pills, check-up, and any blood work they deem required. A very quick way to add a few hundred bucks to my visa bill for August no doubt. His regular gal is away with a family matter so our Graham has to see somebody else today. Luckily we did his big surgery elsewhere, so as far as I know he doesn’t have any big misgivings about this particular office.

Four.) Still no progress on the illustrated children’s book. I’m sorry to say that even with all the indoor days we took due to extreme heat, and high UV, I did not manage to pull it together to paint the pages I need done to post the document here. Sad, I know. I will get it done!

Five.) We had a very busy week last week seeing cousins on both sides, and close family, as well as friends from Sunday evening right up until Saturday afternoon. It was a wild one. Lots and lots of tubing, wake boarding, swimming, and BBQ meals. I’m about 4 lbs heavier still, and I was up before the week started as well! Gah. Summer body is a marshmallow!

Six.) We did not go to see Superman, or any other film out in the theaters this summer, but I have Sat down to watch parts of Kpop Demon Hunters no less than four times, so Netflix has the cheese to squeeze this summer. I also saw Happy Gilmore 2 twice this summer, so that’s probably doing ok numbers on Netflix as well.

Seven.) We had the chance to ride the new extreme coaster Alpen Fury at Canada’s Wonderland a couple of weeks ago, and it was great. I won’t do another three hour line to ride it ever again, but it was fast, turbulent, and also very smooth riding. It was the only thing besides eating a meal, and downing several beverages in the intense heat that we did while there. Good ride but the line needs work. More fans, more misters, more shaded areas, and definitely more chances to buy cold drinks when in line. Two young women fainted in that line while my daughter and I were there. Took the EMT’s a while to show up too. It was so hot, and the air so thick yet still. Awful conditions. Fun ride though.

Eight.) downloads of both books and the audio version of one chapter are still going pretty strong. I might even break 100 downloads of each by Christmas if things keep up this way. Not sure what caused it but there was an enormous jump in views from out of Germany specifically. Like nearly 1,600 in a single day. It was wild. Kept up for more than a week at that. Not to the same four digit extent, but like 60+ for a week or more. Loved it! Let me earn my 15th cent in advertising partial dollars. Ha. My guess was right, the new low for getting paid out was raised from fifteen cents to a higher number. I did not bother to go see what the new minimum payout requirement is. If nearly 2,000 people came here to look at something and I got .01$ for it, I can only imagine how long it will take to reach the new minimum. I don’t bring it out of people like that!

So — yeah! Summer break 2025 has been fun filled, extremely hot, and extraordinarily dry. Drought since early July means the lake is down nearly 2 ft in depth, which is wild for July, and early August. Forecast calls for no rain up north over the next 15 days either. First year for forest fire up near my inlaws place. Bit spooky. We need a solid week of rain to take us out of total burn ban range. Not safe to have any sparks fluttering around up there.

Happy Monday!