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hi everyone - apparently there is a large wind and rain system heading straight for Ottawa late tonight and all day tomorrow.

I was on a cordless phone (despite being told numerous times not to be as a kid) at my friend's grandfather's in the country and lightening sturck the wire outside and came through the phone - burning it and shocking my ear and hand/arm. I am much more careful now. My Mom is quite scared of tstorms but tried to put on a brave face for us but I feel sorry for her alone during them now (with pines that are enormous and often falling).

This has been an emotional week - we own a second home so that my husband's parents have a place to live that meets their needs. They have decided to move (it was a quick decision). We had a few people through and we got a massive bite on Tuesday - we countered and they accepted. The inspection was on Friday and we failed because there is vermiculite in the attic. We are very bummed. It will cost almost $12k to fix it - money we don't really have but really there is no point to not doing it - it will scare most people away, I think.

There's been some drama at the church which I don't really understand. I guess I don't really know how to balance "leading with my conscious" with accepting that there is a bureaucratic paradigm in a church. Ick.

I visited my Uncle earlier this week and he isn't doing well. To me it's many of the signs that were present when he was super sick last winter and that makes me so sad.

I'm also having a bit of a hard time adjusting to being home from the hospital - I didn't expect it to be this tough for some reason.

But I am grateful for friends and my husband. We got to go to most of a Huey Lewis concert on Wednesday and have spent some time together which was super nice.

Kimmio, I hope that you are doing well. Pinga good luck to your son - what a big step for both of you! Is he your first to leave home?
 
Vermiculate is a downer? It is astonishing to me the crazy things that people reject ... even though there is better insulation.

Some believe it to be a siliceous threat ... but then lay around beaches of silica sand ... serpentine in nature as flowing sands ...

Then there is cellulite insulation ... based on old newspapers ... perhaps people are frightened by past Noos ...

Acrylic toxins? Like the fatty acids of the braen coupled with metaphysics of psyche ... hoo dah thought ...

Does confuse mortals that didn't wish to know however ... so they could lead in being behind the hate Ba'aL!
 
JustMe, yes, he is.

Justme, we have been getting the wind and rain most of the day. A see a branch down , but it is a small one, and based on the dead leaves, was already damaged. I am sorry about the vermiculite in the attic. That was in my dad's house, and yup, found after the deal and even with family they were going to walk away if not removed. In the end, as it was family, we paid. Lots of should a / could a in there. Good luck, well, and hopefully selling will recoup the spend.

Sorry also about your uncle. that is a few things to deal with with just getting out of the hospital, though with agin g relatives it is probable. My son phoned my Dad (his grandpa), on the trip east...I am sure it helped the time go by and my Dad will be to the moon out of joy that he called. Sometiems, it is just about making their days better.

take care, justme
 
I'm finding creative distractions - fooling around with apps on my iPad all afternoon, staying out of the heat. Interior design lovers with ipads...this app is awesome! It's called Neybers. It's better than going through the IKEA catalogue and imagining a room. You can actually put one together, from paint to furniture to accessories. Of course I could never actually design rooms like these for my own home but it is fun to daydream. I love it. The only problem is that I did create a room, took a "photo" and it supposedly saved it to my iPad camera roll, but it's not there. I wanted to post it here.

https://www.neybers.com
 
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This is my weird rock n' roll dining room! I figured out how to save a photo a different way. Oops I took a photo while one of the edits was still showing. It started out a plain empty room with cement walls and floor.
 
Today has felt so long. The heat is just getting to me and I've actually spent a fair bit of time in the bedroom with the AC.
Confused if this is HAE triggered by heat or just normal mild heat stroke. Either way I've never done particularly well with heat so it's not unusual for me.

Rain is in the forcast after this weekend, that will be nice. You hear of the humidex, but I think when you get below a certain humidity point the dryness makes it feel worse, a much narrower range, but we've been in it a fair bit the last 2 months.
 
@Justme - sounds like a fair bit to deal with all at once, I hope you get a chance to relax and just resettle yourself in at home. I don't even want to deal with anything major when I get home from a holiday!
 
Oops I see a mistake. The footstool is off the ground and the picture frame is not covering the painting properly. It's hard to get the angles/ perspective right. But it's a lot of fun to play with. Right up my alley.
 
What a strange country we live in! It has been very cool and very very wet for almost 24 hours here in Simcoe County. Too cold and rainy to take dogs for usual 6 a.m. beach trip. I've got socks and a winter bathrobe on, and have decided, on my second day of holidays, to skip church (including the picnic, which will have to be entirely in the barn, and for which I had not signed up for anything, although I had prepped the ingredients for a couple of different salad things) and stay in my PJs listening to Radio 2 and playing Facebook games and hanging with critters. I've actually moved any planters that don't have good drainage out of the rain, because we've had that much; no storms, just persistent grey wetness. Dogs don't want to go out, except to quickly do their business, shake off then come back in to sleep. I'm starting to wonder if summer will ever really come here, and shaking my head at stories of heat wave and drought.

I'm leaving for 6 days in Quebec on Wednesday. Staying with relatives, 'doing' the Jazz festival, having a couple of days wandering in Quebec City. Planning my annual strawberry-jam picking/making marathon for Mon/Tues; thinking of strawberry rhubarb this year because the rhubarb patch needs serious thinning! According to CBC weather as of this minute, looks like that will work, weather-wise. May be one of those odd years when I'm NOT making strawberry jam in the middle of a heat wave in an un-airconditioned kitchen!
 
No rhubarb here, looks totally dead, but I'm hoping it perks up for next year!
Here Canada Day is typically hot, we just seem to have more days in a row than is normal, but I wouldn't call this unusual.
 
My houseguests brought me a jar of rhubarb sauce for icecream. It will be 40 degrees again today.
Guests have left.
While I have about 1 full day of work to get done, and the sprinkler guy coming Friday I have no other commitments until Sept. 8 when I am back at work.
I pass back the chair of leadership team (board) for church on Wed.
Life is good!
 
It is so hot and muggy and gross - and overcast! We might actually have a thunderstorm, it feels like. It's one of those days where you take a shower but just can't dry off. Yuck. My roommate found the fan, finally! It's smack in the middle of the living room and sort of helping - we're both complaining and even the dog is sluggish.
 
Tabitha I've been thinking a lot about you lately - I'm reading a book titled "Creative Aging" - it's a collection of articles/stories from a journal title "Sage-ing" which chronicles creative, wisdom, aging - and mostly is centred in the Okanagan area. Enjoying the brief vignettes.

Edit - here's a link to the journal - http://www.sageing.ca/
 
Hey Kimmio - have you got a big pot, or bucket, or dishpan? Fill it with nice cool water & let your feet soak ... amazing what that does to lower body temperature! We had a thread last summer I think with all the "cool" ideas ... might need resurrecting! I was just chatting with my daughter who is up in Whistler - she was lucky enough to go down to her neighbourhood lake for a swim after work to cool off tonight. Me - I had the fireplace on at supper time!!!!!
 
Carolla said:
Hey Kimmio - have you got a big pot, or bucket, or dishpan? Fill it with nice cool water & let your feet soak ... amazing what that does to lower body temperature! We had a thread last summer I think with all the "cool" ideas ... might need resurrecting! I was just chatting with my daughter who is up in Whistler - she was lucky enough to go down to her neighbourhood lake for a swim after work to cool off tonight. Me - I had the fireplace on at supper time!!!!!
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I sat at the edge of the bathtub and soaked my feet in cold water. We don't have a pan my roommate will let me put my feet into. Lol. My aunt recommended a cold cloth around my neck, and we have had the icepack out. I have stood with my face in the freezer. It's brutally muggy. The air is not moving, you could cut the humidity with a knife.

Fireplace?! My goodness. Can't even imagine it now.

At our old building there was a small outdoor pool (common in that age of building, not fancy, like a motel pool) that we barely used. I sure miss it now.
 
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