Summer

It’s now the fourth of December and we are well into summer here in Perth. The month started out with the Scientist having a birthday. I took him to iFly to do indoor skydiving and he loved it. I took part in it too but I’m not quite as enthralled. I might do more in the future but it wasn’t quite so smooth sailing for me. The Scientist has got a ten pack of visits to use and he’s hoping to become independent of the instructor by the end of them. I look forward to taking photos and videos of him while he keeps learning.

With the warmer weather, the ants decide to take refuge in our house and we had pest control out yesterday. The guy was 45 minutes late and there was no apology and his manner was kind of off, like he had to stop and think after every second word. Even when he arrived he sat in the truck in the driveway for a good five minutes or more without coming to the door. Anyway, here’s hoping the barriers work because we had a terrible time last year with ants, even after treatment. This was quite an expensive service so it better last a lot longer.

Last week we had tree people out to do some pruning and bush removal. One of our lovely bottlebrush plants bloomed a couple months ago and then promptly started dying. Not sure what happened but it needed to be removed. Also we had bushes growing into the gutters so they were pruned back severely. They still need some light trimming as the work done was just major removals.

And with that we need to get someone out to do our gutters. The one quote I had was expensive and they can’t come out until late January, which doesn’t seem very helpful. Which reminds me I need to grab a community paper and see if I can find someone else to come out.

The nicest thing at this time of the year is how we have daylight running so late. I haven’t ended up out on my bike quite as much as I wanted but hopefully that will soon change. The weather is just becoming quite pleasant for riding, aside for the sometimes strong sea breeze that comes in during the late afternoon.

Anyway, it’s summer and Christmas season and after so many years I have adapted to this notion of the holiday during the opposite season to what I grew up with.