I had all the intention of blogging about the above picture a few weeks ago after we came back from the medieval festival, mostly for my sister’s amusement, but then I had stuff to do and it became old news.

However, today, my sister posted (completely unaware of the first one) a matching picture on her blog and now I have no choice but to compare and contrast.

See those three figures in centre right of the above photo? Those are the paramedics monitoring the jousting match. It was a little bit after 1PM on a stupidly hot day and they were standing there all straight and strict looking with no hats on. Frankly, I was more worried about the paramedics suffering from heat stroke than the metal-clad guys knocking each other off the horse with a stick.

And here is the contrasting picture (shamelessly stolen from “Sjever i Jug”)

So, the similarities… Three paramedics/emergency room doctors in uniform, one girl, two sameish looking guys observing a subcultural sporting event (for non-Croatian speaking public, the second picture is from youth firefighters games). The differences are striking also, though the Canadians have a much neater uniform, the Croatian team is at least dressed for the weather. Look at them all smiling and relaxed, leaning against the fence amongst the crowd.

Day two of our reduced numbers went well, I managed to get a few good pictures of Owen with his new haircut. I have a lot of tidying up to do in the back yard so Owen and I made use of the morning shade to spend some time outside. Owen lasted about an hour before he got bored and insisted we go do something else.

There are some festively type things going on downtown, but I have been taking care of toddlers long enough to know that nothing on the schedule would be interesting enough for Owen to justify the trip. Instead, we went to Chapters to play with the Thomas set in the evening.

During the day, I managed to complete the toy organizing project. I am not sure if this will be any help whatsoever with keeping the house tidy, but it is worth a try. I feel like I accomplished something which is nice.

Weekends with just me and Owen (and the New Guy) are very different than when the whole family is here. We didn’t do a lot compared to how our usual weekend are. Mostly we stuck around at home and if we went anywhere we only ventured out once per day and we kept it to Kanata.

It has been almost two months since we’ve started getting veggies from the Riverglen farm. So far, so good. I am glad we are splitting boxes with friends though because each weekly the box contains much more veggies than we eat and getting a single box every two weeks would be half as much fun.

My problem with veggies is that I don’t really care for them so I usually just get the veggies I dislike the least and force myself to cook them when I am making a full meal. Though I always make a point of having some veggies in the fridge, too often they stay there longer than they should.

Now that we are signed up with the farm, not only do we get a different set of fresh, local, seasonal veggies every week, but I have so far been successful in preparing them and using them up by the end of the week. The boxes are getting fuller though so I hope I will be able to keep up.

It is too hot and mosquitoy to be outside. We have actually been hiding out in the basement for the last two days because the rest of the house is too hot. Because we have to run air conditioning to keep the house at livable levels I can’t even open windows to let the fresh air in. July is gross, I can’t wait for it to be over.

People complain about Canadian winters, but summers are way worse.

On the positive note, I got some knitting done.