As opposed to tick collection. The GG has a tick collection. He puts all of the little buggers he finds on his skin into little vials filled with alcohol.

I don’t know who the person is but she works for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. She is collecting deer ticks if I have it right. The ones that cause Lyme Disease. That’s the disease our Lyme Lounge is named after. On the trip to pick that thing up out in Minnesota, the GG and mouse were inundated with ticks every day. When they finally landed at the moomincabin, the GG was sick enough that for a quick minute, we thought he might need to head to the urgent care to get checked out for Lyme Disease. In the end, he decided it was probably black fly bites. And yeah, it probably was. I know from experience how nasty those are because they make me feverish. Same for Radical Betty. The GG did recover and has never showed any subsequent signs of Lyme.

Weather update? It got up to 89 today (not 92). I snagged some shelling peas at the farmers market at 0-skunk-30 and was home by 7:20 or so maybe? A cloud layer kept Mr. Golden Sun from keeping us hot most of the morning along with breezes. Persistent winds allowed me to keep the Landfill doors and windows open all day. I felt cool as I shelled my peas in the back yard.

I am glad that the local NPR stations didn’t broadcast those BEEP BEEP BEEP weather alerts for a 92 degree day three days before it happened. They did that a few years ago. It kinda freaked my daughters out, like will mooom be okay. Yes. She will. 92 is not allll that hot and there are many ways to keep cool and if all else fails, moom can turn on the central A/C. Which she may have to do on Monday when she will be working.

What annoyed me about the radio this time was all of the suggestions for how to keep cool in hot weather. There are many ways for Michiganders to do that on our extremely few 90-plus degree days and most of us know how to do it if we have the means. Dunking into Lake Superior water will cool you off quick but most people don’t have access to Gitchee Gumee, including me when I’m on the Planet Ann Arbor. There are people who don’t have access to air conditioning in their homes. I didn’t have A/C in my home until about 20 years ago. It was horrible when the beach urchins were small children and we had a heat wave.

We were lucky to have a big backyard with a plastic kiddie pool. And a cool breeze just rolled through so I am ending this blather now.

G’night. KW

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