The Times They are Becoming Quite Different

I've put off mentioning it, in spite of all my complaining about the humidity I have been reluctant to admit that fall is coming. We're now at the end of August, and on my trip home from my mothers I noticed that the leaves are starting to change colour.

I've also noticed that there are more leaves in the bowls at the park.

And finally I can't help but notice that the humidity is turning into a coolish rain, on a fairly regular basis (all last weekend, and again tonight).

The sky looked so dark after work that I decided to drive Cadie up to the park. We had a good 25 minutes of tennis ball tossing in the baseball bowl, before we headed over to the trail. The plan was to go through the trail 3 or 4 times to make up for missing the walk up and down Mt. Pleasant. We got all the way around once when the rain started.

At first it was good, the leaves made a perfect canopy, and we didn't get wet at all. But then the rain really started and the canopy became saturated. Needless to say we only made it around the trail once before heading for the car.

Thankfully I had put a towel in the car last week. We were soaked! As you can see by the picture of Cadie above (taken after 20 minutes after coming in from the storm) so we sat on the towel and headed for home, where we've been hiding out ever since.

So yes, I'm afraid to say, but it is true, summer is coming to close and soon we will be in the full swing of fall. Let's just hope that it's a good one, and that we aren't getting soaked like this everyday from now until November, when the snow comes.

A stroke of luck

The temperature in my apartment has become unbearable. Cadie spends most of her time flaked out in the coolest room, the bathroom. I am trying to spend most of my time asleep so that I'm not focusing on the heat. Uter is alone in loving the heat. Her tank is as a warm as a bathtub.

It's been a busy week. Salt was over for a sleep over last week, Wednesday was my last day at my old job. It was very hectic, but there's no end in sight, I start at my new job on Monday, and although I am very excited, I am also hoping for some slightly cooler weather. I've been fighting a migraine for the last 2 weeks, and I'd really like to feel "normal" on my first week.

In spite of not feeling well, Cadie and I have had some luck this week. I woke up this morning and knew that I didn't have the energy to walk up to Sherwood Park, instead we headed over to our usual park. It closed Monday for construction, but I thought, let's just try it. As I said, we got lucky, Cadie had a good romp and we were back home by 7:30. Already by 7:30 the world was so hot and humid I just couldn't stand it. Except for a quick trip to Davisville Park late in the afternoon, that was all the exercise Cadie needed. Which was great, I had lunch with a good friend, then came home and went right back to sleep.

Anyhow, I'm off to bed, I'm hoping that tomorrow will be the kind of day when I can get some housework done without feeling sick.