This Morning, I was looking at the weather forecast for the day, and I glanced at the Calgary forecast as well.  I felt just a little smug when I saw the difference in temps, but it was 1 am back home.  Still, we are enjoying the tail end of a major heat wave here.  Everyone is telling us that the temp. is unseasonably warm right now.  Who am I to complain.

It was a little funny that we are here enjoying the heat, yet back home, the couple that is staying at our house was having some furnace issues.  Not funny for them, and I hope the issue was resolved, but funny because today, our landlord is coming to install the heating system here.  My smugness might change this winter, as we will be heating the house with 2 wood burning fireplaces.  Neither which are on the floor we sleep on.  One is below us, and the other is above us. Some of the locals have been telling us horror stories about how cold it gets here for a couple months.  Dropping to single digits at night, and only 15-18 degrees during the day.  I don't know how we will survive.  I am trying to talk Kristin into investing in a Hottub here, but it's a hard sell.  I think it needs to get cold before she will want one.

The last few days have been quite relaxed around CASA YOLO, we pretended we were the Griswalds, and made our pilgrimage to Wally World.  We had a couple new friends from school over, and the kids played in the pool for 3 hours.  We tried cooking something new, Calamari, with marginal success.  And we have watched the sunset every night.  It still takes our breath away.

This week we are trying to finalize all the details for rent, car usage for the year, and getting a routine for pool maintenance, yard work, and house duties.  We have even determined a little landscaping project we are going to tackle (when I say we, you all know who I mean).  Add this to our daily beach time, workout, siesta and relax schedule, and it makes for another busy week.  So until next time.

CIAO

Shane