Today is going to be a killer.
It never cooled down much during the night, so none of us got much sleep. We are now expected to reach a high of 30C/86F, with a humidex of 38C/100F While nothing much reached us, a massive storm blew in from the US across the south of our province, with alerts telling people to seek shelter.
As I write this, it’s 26C/79F, which is only slightly hotter than it was while I was watering the garden this morning. Humidex puts us at 30C/86F right now.
About all I can say for now it, at least it’s not windy like it was last night. I’m happy to say that we did not lose any trees. At least not anywhere that I could see.
My morning, of course, started off with feeding the yard cats. With the expected heat, I set frozen water bottles in the water bowls, too. I’ll change them out for fresh ones, later in the day.
I saw little Colby running around and playing in the grass.
In the second photo above, you can see his sisters still eating. I didn’t see the white and grey one anywhere, though. I hope it’s all right.
After doing my rounds, I gave the garden beds a deep watering, which ended up taking about 2 hours, maybe longer. I didn’t even make it to the trees. The heat and humidity was already getting to me. They still need to be done, though. I’ll have to go out again, later.
Meanwhile, I’m happy to say that some of our corn finally has tassels!
Only in the bed with the Arikara squash, where they are bigger than the ones in the corn bed. No sign of cobs, though.
When doing the watering, I often see lots of frogs jumping out from under the mulches and hopping away. Usually, they are the greyish, brownish wood frogs. Sometimes I’ll see some tiny copper or emerald ones.
Today, I got to see this beauty.
Apparently, this is a Pacific tree frog! Which is strange, because we are nowhere near their range. The other possibility is the common tree frog, but from the images I’m finding, that’s not it.
Well, whatever kind of frog it is, I am happy to see it!
Today is looking to be a day of staying out of the heat as much as possible. None of us tolerate heat very well, it seems!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
Wow, that’s some brutal heat for no a/c! Hope you stay cool. Do you have a kiddy pool or stock tank or anything like that? Just to have your feet in the water is such a relief.
Darling to have frog friends in the garden, almost as fun as bees and butterflies!!!
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We do actually have AC… sort of. My daughters got a portable AC for upstairs. That and a fan make it just bearable up there. On the ground floor, we have a portable AC set up in the living room – there is no where else it could be installed – and we have a fan to blow some of the cooler air into the dining room. That, and we have fans everywhere! On hot days like this, I have a box fan in my bedroom window set to blow hot air *out*.
We do have a kiddy pool, but it got converted into a garden bed, so it has drainage holes in it. 😄
I have always loved frogs (I even married one… 😄)! I just wish the yard cats would stop hunting/playing with them!!
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married one??
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My husband is a French Canadian. It’s long been a running joke between us.
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