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Hot, humid and muggy!

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It is so hot here in Toronto! At this time – almost 7 pm it’s 32 Celsius 90 F, and it apparently feels like 36 c ( 96.8 F) with the humidity. That’s normal body temperature – 96.8 F.

Toronto is so humid. I’m sure that this is just the beginning of a long hot muggy sticky summer. It was even hotter earlier today.

Yesterday was a little cooler but still warm and sticky.

I did end up going out into the garden yesterday evening. Within an hour I was overheating! When I finally did go back inside several hours later it took me a couple of hours to cool off even though we had the air conditioning on. Unfortunately when I did cool off I felt too cold! There’s no happy medium is there?






Storm Watch!

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It’s hot here today! 31 Celsius (87.8 F) with a humidity factor bringing the temperature up to 40 Celsius (104 F). See I told you it gets hot and humid here in Toronto.

It’s been dark and kind of overcast for the last couple of hours, but just a few minutes ago it got almost as dark as late evening and the wind picked up like crazy.

A storm’s a comin!

Now there’s thunder and lightening but very little rain. So far.

This is the kind of weather that causes Tornado’s to spring up in the Southern Ontario region. I hope that one doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of a few towns that got hit by one.

Chances are also high that our power will go out at some point in the near future. A couple of years ago when there was a good storm like this one’s shaping up to be my husband and I heard a loud crack and saw a giant flash of light off to the east. Turns out it was a transformer that got hit by lightening and blew up! That kept the electricity out for a while!

Wish me luck?

I’m sure my plants will love the extra water and nitrogen in the air from the lightening … but I really hate thunder storms.

Not winterizing this year

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With all the snow- that has melted today since it’s above zero … I don’t think I’m going to be putting the garden to bed properly this year.

I just haven’t been feeling well and I can’t manage to make myself get out there and mound soil around the roses or protect them in any way. My husband knows how to do this but for some reason he’s hesitant to do it without my explicit direction so I guess it’s just not going to happen.

Well I guess this will be a good test to see how hardy some of the plants really are. I know a few of my roses stand a good chance of not making it if we don’t protect them but I might just have to live with that if it happens.

Lets hope it’s a mild winter for my gardens sake.

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