Another beautiful, perfect day: sunny, breezy, warm. Enjoyed by all, including the black flies. Actually, during the heat of the day the black flies aren’t out and about much. But in the morning, or late in the afternoon, they are fierce and hungry.
I received a surprise call last night asking me to work today, five whole hours, a miracle shift. I accepted immediately and enjoyed my day at work. I have another five five-hour days scheduled between now and the end of June.
My cleanup this week has left the screened in porch tidy and functional. I am sitting in it to write this entry. I can hear birds calling, and the breeze in the trees. In truth I can only hear the breeze in the trees some of the time, the seasonal people are on the move! It is Friday afternoon, so people are arriving from the city, for the weekend. I can hear the high speed traffic in the distance, growing more and more continuous as the day wears on, and it drowns out the gentler sounds of the forest. Overnight we have gone from almost complete isolation, to being surrounded by weekend vacationers. The black flies and the seasonal residents arrived at the same time this year.
We are still working on getting our firewood into the woodshed. The black flies are out, but if we work through the heat of the day, they will not bother us. So, Sunday, our “weekend” will be spent toting and stacking wood.
Tomorrow is the Memorial Service for Attila’s Stepdad. We will be thinking of him, and of Attila’s mother. We cannot travel so far to be with her, because Attila could not get enough time off work to get there and back. It would be lovely to be with Attila’s Mom at this time, and she says she understands why we cannot. We hope to have her visit with us this summer.
The leaves are beginning to unfurl! So far I can see some distance into the forest, but soon, very soon, a veil of green life will be drawn down over the landscape. Beautiful!
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Worldly Distractions
Weather
26C
Date: 4:00 PM EDT Friday 3 May 2013
Condition: Sunny
Pressure: 102.3 kPa
Visibility: 16 km
Temperature: 25.7°C
Dewpoint: 2.5°C
Humidity: 22%
Wind: S 28 gust 39 km/h
Quote
“Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.”
Christina Rossetti
1830 – 1894
After the battering you took this winter, it’s nice to read that you’re experiencing such a lovely day. I hope it stays nice for a while. Those black flies are really terrible, yes indeed.
Thanks Sarah, the weather is truly a blessing. The black flies are awful, but just for a few weeks or until a heat wave kills them off. The great thing about black flies is that they hate the indoors. If you come indoors with them in your clothing, and they love to crawl into your clothing, they will leave you and fly to a window to escape.
Mosquitoes, on the other hand, will follow you indoors or anywhere and hide until you are inactive. They hide behind picture frames, in the folds of curtains; pretty sneaky! The mosquito season hasn’t started yet. Once it does we have to go to bed a little early, lie quietly for a bit, and then kill any of those sneaky mosquitoes that have been hiding in the bedroom waiting for us to fall asleep.