The Heat

We residents of Vancouver are used to the typical west coast weather so when things start to heat up it takes a few days to adjust. At work today an email was sent out asking people to turn out their lights if possible and turn off any unused computers because of a fear that we would overload the system and cause a black-out. Not a good thing for a hospital!

Our air quality is becoming an issue and there are warnings for people who have asthma or pre-existing lung conditions. Environment Canada has asked people to avoid driving unless necessary and to not use gas-powered lawn mowers. The fire hazard rating in all areas of the province are either moderate, high or extreme--guess there will be no fire tonight or for the next couple of weeks in our chimnea.
After a very dreary and late spring, summer has hit with a vengance!

I find its easy to get irritated so I've decided to take action--all of our fans are on full blast, taco's for dinner (hot weather food-if people in hot weather Mexico can eat it in the heat so can we!) and although hubby will be drinking beer I'm thinking margarita's are in order--to help with the irratibility of course! In the meantime though a story is worming its way into my thoughts--something about a murder committed because of the irratibility of a heat wave--perhaps a menopausal woman undergoing a hot flash--hmmm...a heatwave and hormones...seems to me to be a deadly cocktail for a crime!

I thought I would check out the concept of a Menopause Murder mystery on the internet and to bad...it looks like someone has beaten me to the punch!