The morning light on my dog walk today.

Busy bee.

Western Salsify gone to seed.

 

We're home.  We were supposed to visit Jasper and our friend who lives there but Jasper was ordered evacuated on Monday night.  He made it out but we don't know if his house survived the fire.  I've been crying a fair bit.  Jasper means a lot to us, it's where we got married, where we went to take photos and where we went we needed to get away from bullshit.  The waitress at Papa George's know us and I wonder about her home too.

The highway is closed from the south and both east and west.  We were supposed to travel up the Icefield Parkway to Jasper but that's where the fire came from.  We cancelled the hotels and came home.

 Wildfire Frenzy Forces Massive Evacuation in Jasper National Park - West Island Blog

 Battle river

Sylvan Lake

 We're off on holidays for a week.  Take care.

 

I'm miserable today.  It's hot and it's been hot for the past week and it's supposed to be hot for another week.  Today's high is 35C (95F).  The trees are having a hard time, too hot and not enough water, so they're sending up suckers everywhere and dropping their leaves. The house can't cool off because it's too hot at night.

I'm grumpy and hot.  I ate Smarties for breakfast and I'm watching Schitt's Creek, so that helps, but now my new TV keeps randomly doing weird shit.  

Life sucks today but it will get better.

Just a random day lilly on my walk the other day.

Yesterday, Katie and I had an interview with a news agency in the city, about her having to pay for her incontinence briefs.  Katie has worn diapers her whole life but since she turned eighteen CAIL has paid for them, $217/month.  Katie also lives on something called AISH (Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped) which is not a lot of money.  Right now she has enough to cover her daily living costs but with very little money left over each month.  In March her contract, or whatever they call it, was up and she needs to be reassessed to make sure she is still disabled?  Still incontinent?  I called CAIL, a four to six month waiting list to be reassessed because they are short staffed.

There is a whole long story behind this but I'm too lazy this morning to write it out.  There is a reporter who is helping disabled people deal with CAIL and AHS, to get the supplies they need paid for, and yesterday she came over to Katie's house and she wrote an article about Katie.  It says so much about a government that is willing to screw over disabled people while handing out subsidies to oil corporations.