Here is our flicker which has been visiting our garden since we arrived here. He is a great bird and is in the woodpecker family but spends most of his time on the ground.

You can see his bright red shape on this head.

We have also seen a couple of hummingbirds come and go but they are so tiny and so quick we have yet to get a photo. We are determined to get one, so stay tuned.

Today the temps are in the low thirties with the humidex at 41C. The whole weekend is forecast to be this hot, so summer seems to have finally arrived. Mind you 41c is a little too hot for our tastes so we are going to be spending the next few months moaning about the heat!

It is very hot here at present. We have been having temps in the high 20′s and low 30′s all summer, but it is now officially autumn and we are still sweltering. Yesterday it was 27C and today the high is going to be 31C with a humidex of 37C, phew!

Our squirrels were relaxing in the sun yesterday. We find them so amusing. They sit eating then suddenly just flake out and then within seconds are up again eating. It is as if they cannot keep still for more than half a minute.

The tree I have been keeping an eye on is now completely red and looking stunning.

When we drove by the other day someone else was parked up taking photos of it, so it is getting celebrity status. It will be charging admission soon. I will keep photographing it as the leaves start to fall.

The tree I am keeping an eye on is getting redder and redder every day. In fact all the tree types are starting to change more rapidly now.

It’s quite odd because we always assumed that the changes would be reliant upon the weather and temperature, but they seem to be changing regardless.

The weather has been very nice this week with temps in the mid to high 20C. Today is was 26C, so the trees must know the calendar and use that and not the temps! It is officially autumn on Sunday and they must know that!

Yesterday I attended a meeting and wore a suit for the first time since moving to Canada. It felt very strange! Won’t be doing that again in a hurry.

Just lately we have been inundated with wasps. There are hundreds of them about and they keep banging on the windows. It is as if they keep trying to penetrate the glass and all you hear is tap, tap, tap on the windows. According to the news this is becuase we had such a dry, hot summer it brings them out. I can honestly say I have never seen so many and such big ones.

Although you would never know it by the weather, the summer is slowly coming to an end and autumn (or fall) is on its way.

The temperatures are still really nice, in fact on Wednesday it was 32C, a bit cooler today at 25C, so really pleasant and the forecast says it will be like this for some time to come. Apparently July and August have been some of the hottest and driest since records began. We have had hardly any rain and the farmers are really feeling it, as our the lawns and wells.

Yesterday we were driving along and noticed that some of the trees are starting to change colour. This is both good and bad: good because it looks stunning in the autumn here, and bad because it does mean the end of summer.

On another note, Chris has started to attack our future home cinema room. He is boxing in the areas that will carry the projector and sorted out a lot of the wiring. He has also started the dry walling, so things are progressing. We are in no hurry to complete it, so can take our time. (I keep saying our!)