Almost there!

   Pool's open and filling as we speak. It's still a bit green but that will improve overnight. I'm hoping for the promised thunderstorm to help with filling it, otherwise it will just be the garden hose and that takes several hours. The temperature is a chilly 62F!

Colourful Wigelia bush.

Time for the Pool

   Waiting for it to cool down so I can tidy up the back yard (cut grass, trim borders etc.) The pool guys are coming tomorrow to take the cover off my pool and start up the circulation system. Always a tense moment while we wait to see if everything survived the winter!

   I have sweated buckets today as it is 29C and very humid - I could really have done with a swim!

This is the "Before" picture. Check tomorrow for the "After".

Believe it or not, none of these houses looming over my backyard were there when I bought, 20 years ago!

Humidex

  In the winter we have the wind chill factor but now we have the humidex. This is how hot it actually feels when the humidity is high. For example, today's  temperature of 29C actually feels like 32C. I can attest to that as I drove home this afternoon with the car windows open! The house interior is still a comfortable 21C so I won't need the air conditioning tonight.

   The RTO AGM went off without a hitch (although I left someone off the list of committee chairs - I had to apologize but she wasn't too upset). We had a delicious salmon lunch and a special cake as it is the 50th Anniversary of RTO. We had to change the location of our next meeting as it falls on Provincial Election Day (June 7) and the facility we normally use is to be a polling station. 

Lilac perfuming the back yard.

Theatre Trip

   Getting lots of gardening done as the weather has been beautiful, but it is set to go up to 30C by the weekend. So Spring, such as it was, is over.

   Last Wednesday we were out of town for a theatre trip to see "West Side Story". It was an excellent production with vibrant music and dance and a group of very talented performers.

   Before the show we stopped at a Butterfly Conservatory in Cambridge. The colour and size of some of the butterflies was amazing. Imagine getting to hold a 10cm. long stick insect!

That's not my hand but one of our group was brave enough to handle the insect.