I'm still here just not writing much. With all that has been going on in the last couple of years I'm not really sure what to write. I feel like I'm just waiting and at this point I'm not even sure what I'm waiting for. Right now our area has a huge rise in covid cases due to the people who won't get a vaccination. It's really disheartening when most of us are doing our best so we can get back to what life used to be like and some stupid people are ruining it for us all. I'm not talking about those people who can't get a vaccination due to medical reasons I'm talking about the nut jobs who believe the government is trying to control them by making them wear a mask or all the other things. If people would just follow the suggestions the health professionals have made then the government wouldn't need to make any rules. The rules are really for the people who have no idea about science and how it works and are slightly paranoid due to their own ignorance.
I've said enough about that situation. In the last year and a half things have changed and there will be no going back to the way it was. Some of the changes we've seen in our small town is a huge influx of people moving here which has driven the price of a home sky high. The average house price has jumped 100k and rentals for small apartments or basement suits run over $1000. There is no possible way to find a place to live at an affordable price now. It's sad and kind of frightening.
Then there is the weather with several heat waves and drought which drove the massive forest fires that we are still fighting. We luckily were never in any danger from any fires but so many others lost their homes or farms. People were evacuated and some still are today. On a good note the weather is changing to Fall and the temps have fallen. We've even had a few days of rain, just wish there was more.
Staying home most days because of the high numbers of covid lately so I'm feeling kind of isolated and unsettled. I'm not sure what to do or how life should be anymore. I know so many others are feeling this way too and I just wish we could have everyone vaccinated who can get a vaccine so this stupid virus would abate.
Our garden was stunted due to the two heat waves we got. We had to make shade covers for the plants because they were pretty much getting baked in the over 46C (114F). I picked some strawberries one day to find they were warm and soft just like if you had baked them in the over and sadly no good to eat. Everything else is so delayed that I'm not sure what kind of harvest we will have. And that's not to mention all the smoke we had this summer. We spent weeks staying side to avoid too much smoke exposure because our air quality was hazardous. It wasn't a very good summer.
I'm glad it's starting to feel like Fall now. The nights are cooler and the smoke is mostly gone so we can open our windows again. I'm not sure if I should get my hopes up that this Fall and winter will be a good one. There have just been too many setbacks to get too much hope about things. Instead I will just be grateful no one has lost their jobs, we have a place we can afford to live and loved ones around us. I hope you are doing well and are finding the good in life even through these difficult times.
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