I Tried

 So after complaining about the heat I decided to try and go out!  Hannah had tests at university so I asked David to take her.  She usually gets the train and walks half an hour to the campus, but last week the temperature was up to 37C, real feel was 41C.  Walking in that heat would be rather dangerous!  We dropped her off and went to the mall for some lunch. We had a little stroll around but after an hour I felt sick. Even with the air conditioning I got over heated because of wearing a mask.  So I tried but I guess staying home is the best until the weather cools down.

The cats are suffering from the heat as well. They won't stay in the rooms with air conditioners preferring the corridors.  They have fighting more recently and I have no idea how to stop them, I spent two hours yesterday putting them in different rooms but they just go back and start fighting again.

playing peek a boo

Toast shutting Frodo up!

Hoping next week is better!  Forecast is for rain and thunderstorms, hopefully things will cool down!

Struggling

 It's summer.

It's hot and humid. 

And I've had enough!  But another 2 or 3 months to go!

Plus my allergies are bad!  I have year round allergies but spring and autumn are the most difficult times.  Summer I usually get a few sniffles and that is all.  This year has been very bad! Last Saturday I woke up at 3am drowning in snot!  I sneezed for almost 3 hours, using two boxes of tissues.  I had to cancel classes, the one class I did teach I spent more time sneezing than teaching!  Not nice!

There are so many things I want to do but until it gets cooler I can't do anything!  I'm sitting in a room that doesn't have air conditioning, just a fan blasting on me and I'm soaking wet with sweat!  It's not the hottest time of day, it's almost 7 in the evening.

Mikey had work on Sunday doing balloon art.  He's quite good at making different animals and characters.

Mikey's Mario!

The cats are not enjoying the heat.  But they won't stay in the rooms with air conditioning.  They hang out in the corridor or shower room, it's a bit cooler there!

Finding cool places!

What a Week

 It was one of those weeks where somethings went right but others went wrong! I don't remember what days things happened on, gets a bit blurry!

The summer has really started, over 30C everyday and high humidity, so I get up early to get David's and Christopher's breakfast, about 4:30, after that I do whatever housework I can get done.  I'm really trying to keep things clean.  By about 8am it is already too hot, especially in the rooms that don't have air conditioners.  The other morning I was washing dishes when I felt my feet were getting wet, the sink was leaking.  David managed to fix the pipe, but it is just bound with tape so I'm wondering how long it will last.  At least the floor got a good cleaning!

I decided to get a new air conditioner.  The one in my room wasn't working at all, it was over 15 years old.  I went to one store that had cheap units but the plugs were wrong and to get an adaptor would take 2 to 3 weeks.  I can't wait that long, I need sleep.  Even though it gets a few degrees cooler at night the humidity is still very high! I fall asleep only to wake up a couple of hours later soaked in sweat, very uncomfortable.  It was installed on Friday, I was looking forward to a good nights sleep.  But of course that didn't happen.  Woke up at 3am with my nose dripping, I then started to sneeze which went on for about 4 hours, I used two boxes of tissues!  Saturday was really bad, I had to change my lessons I was that sick!

We also had a really incredible thunderstorm.  Poor cats were freaked out, I wasn't doing much better.  David and I drove to the city to pick up Hannah, she has a long walk from the university to the train station.  I'm glad we went because the storm was really over head when we picked her up.  One airport had to close because lightning had hit the runway making a hole!

Fluffy and Frodo hiding from the storm

At to that cockroach fights, stepping in cat pee or vomit and chasing the cats when they escape it has been a crazy week!

Shopping

 Hannah wanted another pair of summer trousers.  So we went shopping yesterday and as always going in for one thing turned into buying 7 things!  This happens every time we go to this one shop.  She got two pairs of trousers, a pair of shorts, with cats on them, two T-shirts, one shirt, a dress and some underwear.  I'm still trying to figure out how this happened.  I can say that this time I was feeling sorry for Hannah.  She had her first covid vaccine on Thursday, she didn't get any side effects but her arm was really painful for a couple of days.  Apparently that's a good thing!

The shirt  and the pattern on the shorts

Also this week is 3 years since Mama cat adopted us!  Three years ago, on a day when the weather was really bad, torrential rain for hours on end, causing floods in a lot of areas, Mama cat had her kittens outside of our window.  Of course I let her in and took care of the kittens.  I thought that we could adopt out the kittens but except for one that didn't happen.  So now we have a family of nine cats!

Mama with the first litter

Steve, Fred and Alan

The brown one is the one that was adopted.