Beating the Heat

Finnegan’s form of air conditioning is rolling the van windows down as the Prairie heat wave has followed us from Saskatchewan into Manitoba. So we are trying all manner of ways to keep cool — Haagen Daz floats, soaked t-shirt for me, dress for Coleen, Fringe Festival fans, and plenty of water.

Kai, the splash-down boy, assured me that he had jumped off the Souris swinging bridge a dozen times. He tempted fate by jumping a 13th time and asked me to text a picture of his shenanigans to his mother. She promptly texted back …

“Damn boy, thirteen shall be fun.”

Well, to each their own way of cooling off, regardless of age.Read more