I took my first long summer walk this past Saturday.
From my apartment to Chapters’ Waterloo location, a long march through two downtowns, up hill along Kitchener-Waterloo’s main drag, in scorching weather. Thanks to the sleeveless t-shirt I was wearing, I’m now the proud (perhaps delusional) possessor of a farmer’s tan/massive arm and head sunburn.
This was quite common for me last summer. The only odd thing is…it’s still the middle of June, and we’ve had more summer in the past week than we had all of last year!
People are melting all around me. My new air conditioner has been operating non-stop since it was installed last Monday afternoon. On a perfectly normal Saturday, the roads are filled with people and cars. Yet there were moments as I strolled up King Street when traffic was doing its level best to fit the label of endangered species.
There’s no sign of the heat letting up until Thursday. Not even the arrival of a tropical storm on Monday will squelch Canada’s week-long answer to the deep south!
It’s making it a lot harder trying to concentrate on the end of the school year. My fiery pink skin is radiating heat, my mental faculties are turning into mush, and the world is slowly running down outside my window. Summer is somehow too early this year…and for a moment, I thought longingly back to February days of wind chill and ice crystals.
I wonder if next Saturday will be walk-worthy…?
