Heat, Reprieve, More Heat

DAILY SNACK

We don’t have air conditioning.
We don’t have air conditioning and I have been reduced to that sticky spot on the kitchen floor.
Well, maybe not quite yet,
But I have taken to finally falling asleep under the ceiling fan in the living room around 3am,
(The kids have a portable A/C in their bedroom.)
And then flopping around all morning on said couch,
While the children have the run of the house.
I would take refuge somewhere else,
Except the car also has no air conditioning,
So the prospect of facing the hotter heat is more than I can bear.

Nonetheless, yesterday we used our season’s passes to Ontario Place,
(I love Christmas presents you can open in July,)
And met up with cousins to do the water park.
For a couple blessed hours,
There was no heat wave.
There was only the cool breeze off the lake,
And the streams of water to run through,
And slide through,
And giant buckets of water splashing down from above.

I don’t think this evening’s t-ball will have quite the same effect.