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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?






Shade loving spring flower

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I took this photo about two weeks ago.

Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of this plant. It’s a spring flower that for me, only blooms for approximately one week each year. The name is something like pasiflora … but yeah, I know it’s not a pasiflora as it’s certainly not a passion flower.

Whatever it is, it’s a lovely spring flower who’s blooms open fully in the daylight hours and close as the light dims in the late afternoon. I have mine planted in a fairly shady area, so it does well in shade.

This flower is no longer blooming and it’s foliage will die down sometime in the next few weeks as we come into the warm weather of summer.

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Rainy day

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We’re getting some much needed rain here today.

It’s not too cool either. In fact, it’s 6:30 pm and I do believe it’s begun to warm up. Perhaps we’re heading into another warm spell.

We still haven’t managed to put our air-conditioners in our windows and Chris has to work tomorrow. I just told him that we’d better get them in on Tuesday, his day off, because the rest of the week is going to be very warm and whenever it’s warm here it gets humid.

I can take the heat but heat and humidity combined can be a real problem.

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