We are real wimps here in Canada. At least here around Toronto we are. The whole winter we were complaining about cold and snow and slush. Well, this weekend was quite the opposite: hot, sunny and humid. So, what do people do? Complain about being hot. Temperatures in high 20s and low 30s C sound just as bad as the -20s C temperatures did. And, instead of crowding out in this gorgeous weather, Canadians crowd in air conditioned malls. To chill in good weather or to warm up in cold. Aren’t we lucky to have the malls all over the place!
To add to the heat, gas prices jumped to $1.35/liter. This summer we’ll have less cars on the road. With our families overseas, Maggie and me are worried if we’ll be able to see them at all, if the cost of travel, which is so tied to the fuel price, continues to rise.
The Euro cup in football has started. It’s easy to tell by the number of cars driving around Toronto with the full range of European flags on the windows. Like before, as the teams are eliminated from the competition, their flags are taken from the cars and in a month only the winning country’s flags will be driven around even after the Euro cup is over, all ripped and faded. For now, they are all new and bright.
Yesterday we were invited to a spontaneous get-together with a barbecue at the neighbor’s yard. It was delicious (the bbq) and fun (the gathering). Hope there’ll be more of those during the summer. We’re planning to fix our yard, build the fence and the patio at the back, so we can return the favor. Maggie, as our chief architect in the household (I’m hopeless in that regard, good only for heavy lifting and physical work) is sketching and scribbling her ideas on papers all over the house, each new one looking better than the previous.
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