Good morning from Port Hope Ontario Canada. It is 6:52 am EDT and 22'C (72'F). Toronto has called a heat alert because we will have 5 days of over 30'C with humidity and no rain. Night temperatures will not be going below 20'C.
Knitting in the parking lot was nice, but not much knitting was done due to the heat. Only 4 people plus the owner of the yarn store were there, of the 8 people who said they were going to come. We put up the wall on the sunny side of the tent but it blocked the nice breeze. One of the ladies figured out an easy way to collapse the tent, so we had it packed up in 10 minutes.
Today would have been the start of the CNE, Canadian National Exhibition, which marks the end of summer. CNE does not get any money from government, so they have advertised to raise money to preserve some of the historical documents that they have in their buildings. With the hydro and heat/air con turned off, those documents could be at risk.
DD and I were already in the garden picking the ripe stuff, including a bunch of beans, lettuce and lots of radish pods. We put more screening over the raised garden as the squirrels won't leave the plants alone. My edamame bean was eaten by both the squirrels and the bunny.
Our new covid number is 531 with 17 deaths. 75 cases are in fully vaccinated people. 176 people are in ICU. Positivity rate is 2.4%. This area did not update it's website.
This province vaccinated 45K people yesterday. I got a notice to extend the employment for our vaccinators and vaccine call centre schedulers until Sept 30, so my employer is not winding down it's mass vaccination clinics like other areas. The 3 children's hospitals in Toronto have said that no one who is not fully vaccinated may enter their doors, that includes delivery people and visitors, because they cannot vaccinate most of their children patients.
I only did a little bit of knitting on my scarf. I tried knitting my brioche project, but it was just too hot and the needles were sticky.