Still a little cooler here

but the humidity is high today.  Some terrible thunder woke us last night, and it's supposed to rain off and on all day.  At least we don't have to worry too much about the little plants outside, although we still have to check the ones under the canopy over the living room window.

It's almost time for our first "payday shopping" under the new regime of a smaller shopping every week.  I have about 8 items on the list for next Thursday--so far.  This is a really good result, as far as I'm concerned.  We haven't hesitated to write things down, nor have we hesitated to shop--following the list--each weekend.  We really stocked up on soft drinks at the end of last month. I guess, the real test will come when we have to buy those again, as the effort it took to haul them into the house and down the basement was exhausting, and lead to the change.  I've been keeping track of the sales, and plan to buy a few cases when the price is right rather than as many as possible.

Cathy, it's nice to hear you joking about the environment at work, rather than your frustration with the human interactions.  Things must be a little better from that perspective.  Maybe you should take a couple of those coyotes into work with you to add to the general ambiance.  Their barking might add a harmonious note to the construction din.

Thanks to my daily "busy-ness" lists we are just about caught up with all of the small jobs around the house, so have declared today a bit of a holiday. There are only two things on today's list and one of then is a big job that we are both ignoring--the other is baking off a roll of oatmeal cookies.  So I plan to spend most of the day in the studio.

P.S. I had just posted this, when David called me to the front door to look outside.  Dark, dark almost as though it was 10:00pm, rather than noon.  Thunder rolling, wind blowing and then it started to rain.  I sat down to update this and the man on the radio started talking about how very dark it was, and then he went on to say that it is a massive storm moving in,  Torrential rain and hail, moving at about 80k/hr and covering most of southern Manitoba.  Then David called me again and I saw that the rain had become so hard that I could barely see across the road.  Sat down to finish this and lost power,
Managed to get back in about 12:35. but had lost everything, so had to start over.  The storm has eased off quite a bit.  The corner of the street is totally flooded, almost all the way to our driveway.  Cars on Munroe don't see the water until they hit it.  Boy, do they ever slow down in a hurry.  And again the man on the radio is talking about the storm, saying that most of the underpasses in the city are flooded.

Quite a day in Winnipeg!