HEAT & SKEETERS

God damned it's been HOT, and because of the rain in June, with the heat comes the skeeters!! AARRRGGGHHH!!!!!! Damned blood sucking critters!! Oh, and the ants!! We have sooooo many ants at home right now! And we have to be careful about what we put down to kill them, because of our animals! Do you know, I can just stand in the back yard for 10 minutes, and probably squish 100 of them! But Mother Nature gets me back for being a killing machine, by letting me get a good 1/2 dozen bites in that same time frame from those vampires. Great, now I'm going to have West Nile virus!

For the next few days the temp is going to be like this:
Fri = 28
Sat = 28
Sun = 27
Mon = 27
Tue = 35
Wed = 32

Sucks!

BUT....
On Monday after work, it was overcast, with a good breeze blowing. Came home, got changed, and Gracie & I headed down to the river. It was great down there! There was a good stiff COOL breeze blowing - what a relief!! So we walked to the right of the off leash area; took some pics of plants, the whitecaps on the river, (the river is actually flowing to the RIGHT!!)













and the dark rolling clouds. We'd done a complete circle, plus some more pic of some plants, when we got DRENCHED!! Pouring rain, blowing wind. Blowing in hard from the west. It was WONDERFUL!! :-)

Needless to say tho, once it hit, we worked our way back to the car. ~big sigh~ And when we got home, it didn't even look like it rained there. All of 5 km east of where we had been!

But it was a nice respite, and I quite thoroughly ENJOYED it!!! It was nice to be able to breathe again!! :-)