Is it Friday yet?

Sadly, no... not yet Friday.

This is just a chatty post... nothing to rant about... yet... it's only 9:45, though, so I'm sure there's still time for someone to piss me off today *laugh*

Crazy weather today... at 5:30 this morning it was already feeling like 29° with the humidity... it's supposed to hit 35° today (base temp)... Extreme Heat Alert... Smog Advisory... Humidex Advisory... the guy on the news this morning was figureing it'd feel about 42° when everything was factored in. I should have worked from home. Got to work this morning at 7:20 and already my lungs were staging a strike. In case you were wondering... asthma really sucks... especially in the city in summer.

BUT... we're headed out to New Hamburg for the weekend, so that should help clear out the lungs again (assuming I make it to Saturday night without dying *laugh*).

Have to go get a new driver's licence picture tonight... figures. Hottest day of the year so far, but Thursday is late opening day at the MTO, and I'd rather have my new licence in-hand when the old one expires (in 12 days), so tonight it has to be. D needs to go get his plate sticker renewed before tomorrow, too, so we'll be there anyway. So now I'll spend 5 years with the picture on my card being one with my hair up in a likely very frizzy pony-tail. Fun.

We'll probably go out to "the good nursery" in Ajax after that... scope out some plants for the sunroom and get some more ideas for things we'd like to put in the back yard next summer. Funny how we always seem to be going to this place on evenings when the weather folks are talking rain, though. Maybe we'll talk to their fish guy while we're out there and see what prices are like on new fish and how many we can reasonably put in our little pond, and how to introduce new fish to the group.

We seem to be having decent luck resurrecting our hibiscus. We got the thing at Canadian Tire (first mistake)... then listened to the gal there (second mistake) who said it's a tropical plant and doesn't need much water. Ended up with a very thirsty plant (ok... mostly a stick with branches and a few tiny shriveled leaves) infested with spider mites *sigh*. It's been about a week and a half treating for the mites and about a week of actual daily waterings (thanks Michelle for telling me how yours is thriving so much!) and there's lots of new growth and far fewer webs appearing than there were.

So... in case anyone's wondering... it's getting about 2L of water daily (the bottom of the pot is raised to ensure we don't run into root rot... it's not sitting in water for longer than about a half hour, if that)... and sprayed once a week with a solution of water and sunlight dish soap.

Here's hoping we'll get it back to full health in time for it to show us a few more blooms this season. Of course, we'll likely have to stress it out a bit by bringing it inside for the winter... the sunroom isn't as "all season" as we were led to believe and I'm not sure it'd survive winter out there *sigh*

And that's about it for now... stay cool, stay hydrated, stay mildly sane!