My Way of Living + Time

Fresh air, motorcycles and raccoons
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When we moved up here last winter, and I nearly froze in the –20 C weather, [apparently it wasn’t as cold as usual] they kept telling me, just wait for summer. All this spring, as the mercurial minded menopausal Mother Nature gave us one barely sunny day, then a cold shivering rainy day, they kept telling me, wait for summer. “Oh just you wait, they said,” it’s going to warm up here so fast and stay so hot, you will wish for winter all over again. Don’t you just love how people grandstand? Actually they weren’t kidding. They were right. And now it’s hot, hotter then winter, hotter then the coast ever was in May, and it’s not even summer yet. It’s easily topping 30C [very hot] one day, and the next it’s cold again. How’s a body to figure this out? And this isn’t even hot yet… oh let me whine, please!

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On Mother’s Day we had my parents over for dinner, our house is cool for them. It was HOT outside, and knowing they would be cold during the dinner inside we left all the windows and doors open to warm it up. Bad mistake, at least for us. They were still cold, it was 28 C outside, [hot], and we sweated all night. And then at 5 am the furnace came on. Yes the furnace, because it’s on a programmable thermostat. And apparently it thought it was cold in here, wish it had done that during the winter when it really was cold in here.

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The other night during a blissfully breezy evening as we sat outside on the porch on Eagle watch so the Boo could wander the backyard unawares, there was a visitor. All of the backyards in the neighbourhood are chain linked fenced, and I am becoming more and more thankful for that, because we didn’t know until the next night that the visitor was a raccoon when my husband saw the brown bandit taking it’s sweet time. A very big, fat, and totally comfortable strolling in the gathering dusk, raccoon. So now we have Eagle watch during the day, and Raccoon watch during the evening hours, and a furnace that thinks it should come on at 5 am to “warm up the house” when it’s still reeling over the previous day’s heat.

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Add in our grown adult neighbours that think the streets are perfect for their rather loud motorcycles to race up and down all weekend afternoons, regardless that this is a rural subdivision with children biking on the streets. They are the ones with the weed strewn front lawn, and here I am worried about a few dandelions in my lawn? Sound carries here against the mountains, and we get to enjoy the ripping loud muffler-less motorcycles as they parade up and down our streets in groups. Mind you, these are 40 something adults, not teenagers.

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Makes me think I should go and program their thermostats, and let the raccoon loose in their yard, that’ll teach them. Ah the bliss of living in the country subdivision.

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Fresh air, motorcycles and raccoons + Time