Summer.. at last!!!

august 4 2007

20 degrees difference between yesterday and today!
We had sun all day!

So many people had to go to the shops after being on vacation, that it was quiet almost all afternoon.

The birds had fun, the castlerose flowered, and the last red berries got sweet.
While I picked the last ones, standing on my toes to stretch over the prickly tearose, two little birds were stealing the bramberries at the other side of the garden.

It was fun!

The girls went to sea.
They just have a few months left of travelling by train for 2 euro, so why not take the opportunity. Their father went with them, because he can travel free.
The distance is too far, too expensive for me to go.

They came back with all sorts of shells, brown skins and lots of stories.
One would have expected the beaches to be full of people, but only a firm walk away from the entrance they had the beach and the sea all for themselves. Even found chairs to sit on.

I'm so happy for them.
Just one week and school starts again.
It'll be an interesting year, with the girls in their last year, 2 boys doing exams and 2 others going to a new school.

In the evening the whole neighbourhood was covered in a cloud of smoke again.
Yesterday evening in another area of town cars got burned, maybe today too.
I can't imagine the grassborders near the railway being to dried out after a few hours of sun.. dried out enough to burn to a large extend.

So we had to close the windows to keep the smell out.

We all enjoyed the temperature, except for my autistic son.
Changes can be upsetting. Especially now he's getting nervous again about going to school soon.

He feels things different and he interprets changes different from us.
A change in weather like this makes his world so different....
So he got angry at me about the temperatures, and nothing was well.

After a tremendous long shower he finally got quiet and went to bed.
What a pity he can't enjoy life as much as others.

While waiting for another son to come home from working late, I visited some sites I discoeverd last week.
Someone thought it fit to put a comment, written with a good intention, straight on her site, to expose my writing mistakes, and to tell the world how stupid I was not to understand the intention of her text.

Well, I think I've understood it very well, seeing how she treated me.

Well, I've met so many nice people on internet, that an incident like that only accentuates the gratefulness I feel for meeting wonderful other people.
I got such a caring comment on my other blog... it brought tears to my eyes.