I usually do NOT complain about the heat. Hot is good, 20 below is bad. But, and you knew there was going to be a but, we are going thru record high temps right now. These temps have not been seen in recorded history. ( for what that is worth.)
We woke up on Monday morning to 45C heat, thats about 115 F for my imperialistic friends. Thats a bit much for this Canadian girl, we don't deal well with this heat. Sure, we can and did spend the days keeping cool in the lake. One can keep comfortable during the day by keeping to the shade and the lake, eating several light meals, drinking lots of fluids. It can and was being done. But the thing that made me pack it in for our little Village was the nights.
Seems the heat magically changed my comfortable summer home away from home into our very own personal Easy bake oven. No relief from the heat during the evening/night as per the usual custom. The nights were not dipping in temperature low enough nor long enough in order for the critters to get good sleeps. Thank goodness we had an appointment on Tuesday to go to. So a quick trip home to do laundry and see a Doc has morphed into a four day respite from the extreme heat.
Going back Friday regardless of the temp, wasting my summer at home, gotta get back, going thru with drawls. Bring a tent like we used to if it's too hot to sleep in our very own easy bake oven. Plan formed, now to make it so!
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