July 17, 2011

The summer is heating up..both literally and figuratively as we are about to head into a week of dangerously high heat and humidity.

I have been struggling to keep the garden watered. It would seem that the garden went from the endless flooding in spring to the drought of summer. We have not had any really measureable rain for quite a while.

This weekend will go down as one that has been pretty sad. More than a few tears have been shed.

On Friday night, I wore my new Gunner costume to the New Lenox Relay for Life as I met up with fellow costumers for this annual event. As in the past few years, the luminaria ceremony contained the names and photos of the three little boys that we had done events for though Make-A-Wish. All 3 boys have passed away. It is hearbreaking to view the Luminaria ceremony as the photos and names speak of all of the loss and the misery of cancer.

On Saturday, I shed a few more tears as I found out at our annual mid-summer Forest Preserve District of Will County Resource Management volunteer meeting that the memorial project for our fellow volunteer Dick Wunderlich is not going to be realized in the manner that we intended. This is a bitter pill to swallow and now I must figure out something else. I feel that I have let Dick's family and all of the volunteers down. I do plan on moving my efforts into another direction and let the Will County Board know exactly how I feel about their lack of support for their volunteers.

Today I am going to try to survive the heat and be a participant at the Mokena Park District's Flea Market. I had packed up a bunch of Star Wars stuff for the flea market on the Memorial Day weekend, but that one was cancelled due to the fact that the area where the market was supposed to be conducted was under water. Now today's market is going to be just plain HOT>