Thursday 14 July 2005

Saskatchewan is "enjoying" high temperatures and humidity. The latter is the unusual part. There are hailstorms and thunderstorms all over the place, and seemingly every day. There are funnel clouds and probably tornadoes I haven't heard about. Last night when I arrived home at midnight from a gathering of the Likeminded Ladies, the air was still HOT out in our yard. As Scott's mom had said earlier, it was like a sauna.

The white you see streaming down from the clouds above is probably hail (thank you Kate A). Usually it would appear grey, when it's raining. While at Kate's home yesterday before the other crones arrived, the two of us watched hail, some the size of large marbles, beat down upon her deck.

6pm

Call me deluded if you must, say my wishful thinking has got the best of me if you insist, but this afternoon I think Mom finally got through. I was downstairs in the bedroom, dressing to go to town and run errands. The house was silent. Scott was outside. I was reaching into my undie drawer when the CD he had in the player last night came on. The song was Led Zep's Black Dog. Granted, this would never be Mom's choice of music but come on, isn't it enough that she turned the CD-player on and/or hit the Play button? Does she have to change the CD too? Nope. That would be expecting too much. She's just a beginner over there, after all.

There was no problem with the power this afternoon. There is no way that we are aware of to pre-set the CD-player to come on at a later time. How that thing got turned on, if it wasn't Mom's doing, I can't imagine.

I'll settle for my own explanation, thanks.