Linda Hoye's Blog, page 44

Canada Day

Waking with a heavy heart given last evening’s reports of Lytton, a nearby village and Canadian hotspot, suffering catastrophic damage from fire. Reports say residents had about ten minutes to get out after the fire started. The videos I’ve seen this morning are heartbreaking. Record-breaking heat, tinder dry forests, lightening strikes, and now heavy wind.

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Cooking

Here we go heading into another blistering day. The forecast high is a toasty 46C / 115F. That, and maybe thunder and lightening which will be bad news for our tinder dry province. Wildfires are already burning out of control nearby. Last evening, when it was still 47C / 117F, I cooked an egg in a

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She’s Still My Ladybug Girl. (And it’s still too hot.)

We broke another heat record yesterday with the temperature reaching 45.8C / 114 F. Worse, a forest fire broke out just northwest of our city that is now 180 hectares and burning out of control. It’s hard to believe it’s only June. So, of course, it’ll be another mostly indoor day. I’m planning on hunkering

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Stay Cool

It seems a bit like winter in reverse. It’s far too hot to spend much time outside so we hunker down inside working on a jigsaw puzzle, playing chess, and reading. Yesterday, suffering from Zoom fatigue after church and a great Story Circle Network board meeting, I suggested popcorn and Prime. We’re currently trying to

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A Challenge

Mindful Everyday I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for — to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world — to instruct myself over and over in joy, and

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It’s Hot . . .

What can I say? It’s hot. Very hot. And, I’m loving it. Laurinda and I were talking about the altered state that happens during a heat wave that brings with it nostalgia for simpler, not necessarily easier, days. It’s a perfect time to get lost in a book and that’s exactly what I’m doing. That,

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Friday’s Fave Five – June 25

What? It’s Friday? Already? The week passed in a blur and I’ve no idea why. I’m not sure I can come up with five things but I’ll give it a go. Writing. I’ve been working on a couple of pieces for my writing group and pre-writing (which means thinking about) another for Story Circle Network’s

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Renga

Last evening I did something I’ve never done before. I participated in a workshop with Canadian writer, Sally Ito, in which we collaborated to write a form of Japanese poetry called Renga. I was in a group with three other women, two from Manitoba and one from Alberta. A cross country collaboration! It took me

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Birdsong

3:53. That’s what time the birds woke up this morning. I know this because I was awake, trying to sort out the details of a disturbing and convoluted dream I had just escaped from. The sound of birdsong wiped the dream from my thoughts and I just listened while one loud bird announced daybreak to

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Through a Different Lens

I’m at the garden to water. I’ve just come from the hairdresser, arguably my least favourite place to leave the house for. I’m wearing contact lenses, because it’s just easier than dealing with glasses at the salon, and a pair of sunglasses. It’s hot, but not unpleasantly so, and I’m lost in thought as I

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