Temp: 35 degrees
Okay, it's a little warm now. But I prayed for this for nine months straight ... I ain't complaining! Bring it on!
The weather station says Vancouver will be 35 in the shade today, closer to 39 with the Humidex - even hotter inland.
Kamloops is supposed to be 39, Kelowna over 42! I wonder how my brother's handling the heat in the interior... then again, he lives on the lakeshore - you can't feel too sorry for him.
I woke up at 5AM again this morning - very strange... just couldn't sleep. Sure, it was hot, but we had the ceiling fan on full speed all night, and I wasn't uncomfortable. My allergies are getting pretty bad, and that WAS uncomfortable, but it's not like I was wrestless and unrested - I felt well rested. Which was extremely strange since I'd only had 5 hours of sleep, only 3 hours the night before, and didn't even get home until 4AM the night before that... BUT, by 5AM the sun's already up, so maybe this is my body's way of telling me to get up and take advantage of every second of these miraculously long and beautiful summer days.
As I drove to work at 6:30AM it was already 18 degrees (that was actually the low for the night) and there were oodles of people jogging as I drove past Rocky Point and it made me think that if I keep waking up so early, it would be the perfect time of day to get out for a jog ... well, at least a walk... The last six days have been so hot, I've been going through the beer like it's water, and that's gonna catch up with me if I don't get more exercise.
Hey, come to think of it, it the last six days, we've hiked ForeShore trail, walked an hour in our neighbourhood, done the Wreck Beach climb (which is practically a mini Grouse Grind, and I've done about 6 hours of yardwork... I don't need no stinkin' jogs! LOL
After work I went out to try to find a few more GeoCaches. I only need 3 more finds to hit the 100 Milestone. And besides, I've got two TravelBugs that I've been holding on to for a while now (one since my trip to Tim's Grad in Kamloops two weeks ago!) and I really need to set them free. I've already found everything within a 5 KM radius of my place, so I picked two near Bunzen Lake, and two near Lost Lake. The first two are 5km nort-west, and the the last two are 5 km south-east, so I probably won't get to both locations, but it's worth a shot...
As it turns out, I probably shouldn't have tried to go geocaching near a lake on the hottest day of the summer (so far)... Bunzen was PACKED - in fact, signs were up saying that it was "full" but I managed to find a parking spot with no problem. Fortunately the cache was down a forest trail, so I didn't have to worry about curious folk at all. I had to do some backtracking, but once my GPS zeroed in, it was easy to find, and I finally got to let one of my travelbugs go. Now it was off to White Pines beach for the next find.
Same problem - packed beach, only parking available was in the overflow lot. I've never seen so many people there before! I got really close to the cache, but there were just too many people around. It's not wise to pull out and replace a cache with people watching, 'cause as soon as you leave, they'll go grab it, not knowing what you were doing - and we want these things to stay hidden! So I doddled around for about 20 minutes, but just couldn'r locate the hiding spot "for sure", so I didn't want to be poking and prodding around with constant streams of people walking by. Oh well, I'll leave this one for a rainy day I guess.
Wow - look at the time! It's ten to six already and I've gotta get dinner whipped up for Carole by 6:30 - time to race home! We didn't bother to go grocery shopping this weekend, so I'll have to make do with whatever we're got left in th efridge ... hmmm, what to make... it's gotta be quick! I decide to make a Texas Straw Hat - which is basically a ground beef chilli with melted chedar on top that you scoop up with nacho chips. At 6:20 Carole called me from the 7-11 next door: "Hey honey, want a slurpee?"
"Good think you called! I'm making Texas Straw Hat and I just realized we don't have any nacho chips or cheddar! Can you pick some up?" How convenient was that, eh? So, dinner ended up being ready by 6:30, and it was tasty.
Now it's 8PM and the temperature has gone down to 28, but it's soooo humid - gotta get down into the nice cool basement - time to blog The Scorcher! Yeah, I know - this was a pretty boring day ... how on earth did I manage to write such a long blog entry about nothing? Sorry, just trying to stay cool and kill a little time. TTFN!
Posted by Calvin at June 26, 2006 12:05 PM