Double Happy Holiday!

Okay, so I’m a little late with Canada Day, which was Thursday, but Independence Day was only yesterday. There were a few fireworks Thursday night, not a lot, just a few, which was okay. But Saturday night the idiots behind us were setting off very loud, very bright fireworks at 1 a.m.! This is a quiet neighbourhood, and there are a lot of retired people and people with small children. There’s also a by-law making it illegal to set off fireworks after 11 p.m. I’m sure I’m not the only one who was annoyed by it.

I’ve been trying to get out at least once a day, but it’s not easy with the weather. While western Canada is so hot it caught fire, we’ve been pretty much grey and damp. On Friday we had a thunderstorm that lasted for hours – very unusual for us. The last couple of years our thunderstorms would be a couple of claps of thunder and that would be it.

The grandbaby graduated from senior kindergarten and in the fall she’ll be starting grade 1. Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was changing her diapers.

At least I get to see her a bit more now. Things are opening up a bit in Ontario. We got together for a barbeque on Father’s Day, and she and Grappy had a swim in the pool. And I got to babysit her while her mother waiting in line at a pop-up clinic for her second COVID shot – the hubby and I got ours the day before at a different pop-up clinic.

And even if things get locked down again, the grandbaby won’t be too bored. Is it only a week ago? her parents took her for a drive to see a litter of kittens and let her pick one for her very own. Meet Spectre, or as he’s usually called, Spec:

That last picture is taken through the door to the daughter’s home office, where he stayed the first couple of days to keep him apart from the other animals until the vet can check him out. He’s a really mellow little guy, and really sociable. And really LOUD. He’s got the run of the house now.

I give it a week before he’s running the house. LOL