Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 Life goes on......the weather is terribly hot these days. I venture out with the dog for short intervals, sitting in the shade, admiring the blooms in the garden while he intends to his business. The house is cool, thanks to the air conditioning, as I think I have said before. Cool, but very enclosed. No doors or windows open, - no breeze wafting through..... I sometimes think of the house we (husband) built - (our good friend, George Angliss designed it) when we first moved on to the VLA project in Cawston. We had rectangular screens below the windows, enclosed during cold weather by little doors, but in the summer they were shaded, and were wonderful places for cool air to circulate, - of course if there wasn't cool air, and just hot sun,every thing got closed, and kept the hot air out..... The house was located at the top of the orchard, - pasture for the sheep above, reaching up to the hills that shaded the valley. Well, sometimes shaded - in the mornings, at least.... In the late evening on hot summer days we still had sunshine, located as we were half way up the hillslide. The sun chose in those summer months to go down through a slit in the hills, so it was with us well into the evening shining through the one narrow window we had looking out over the valley. But we were young, and hot weather wasn't the problelm it seems to be these days.... Well, I really don't know what I intended to say in this post, except for the little weather report. I guess I will go back to the beginning....."life goes on". I get a little weaving done - no baking or housecleaning, except for the duster twirling around some days.... I am pleased to have youngest son staying here with me, - off working during the day, but lovely in the evenings and good to know there is someone else in the house as the night goes on. Bruce and I went out into the garden for a short while this afternoon. I admired the great swathe of those golden flowers that tower over the fence - at least ten feet high, and (as I think I said previously) great for privacy. We didn't stay long, - even in the shade it was fairly hot, and I thought about a nice tall glass of lemonade, or something equally as thirst quenching. I have been doing a little knitting, and a fair amount of reading. Still reading Robert McFarlane, and I reached Teilhard de Chardin down from the shelf to muse a bit about his "Hymn of the Universe" I thought something nice and light would be great, but I am a very sparse visitor to the library these days (age - quit driving - etc....) and I didn't find anything light on the shelves here at home that appealed to me. Son has just come home and we were discussing Jordan Peterson and his Daily Wire, which gives us both much pleasure and information, and helps to form many opinions as to what goes on in Canada and in Canadian politics. There are wild fires burning here in B.C., - and I guess elsewhere. One of them is fairly close to us (although certainly not close enough to cause us any concern that we would have to deal with it). The yellow rose in the garden has grown tall and wide and carries with it great quantities of blooms and buds. Tomorrow I will get a picture of it when Bruce and I go out for a little fresh (but warm) air. The weatherman says cooler days coming - soon, I hope....