Near Northsider – Houston

It was a hot day

Originally uploaded by Leelunies

It’s getting hot again. Actually, it has been hot for quite some time. Now that Summer’s here it’s going to get even hotter. This is the Squee’s first real summer where he’s spending a lot of time outside. Last here he was still so little that we kept him in a lot during the summer. Now we take him out more and sit on the porch and he’s not too impressed with the weather.

He looks like he’s very uncomfortable in the heat. He sweats a lot and his face gets so red. He doesn’t really like the bright sun and he gets especially upset when he’s hot AND sleepy.

Sarah and I are both more or less ok in the heat. Sarah more so than me. In fact, we don’t like it when indoor AC is too cold (which is pretty much everywhere you go in Houston). However, now we have to keep our house colder than we would for ourselves so that the little boy can be comfortable. Sometimes we sit on the couch with a blanket over us while Squeeli is asleep in just a diaper and no blanket, sweating!

We bought ourselves a handy-dandy cordless weed whacker thing. It’s quite the awesomest. We were outside hacking and whacking and cutting and mowing for hours. Luckily it wasn’t that hot this weekend. My parents were over and watching the baby, so it was all just straight work. While we mowed the lawn and cut some really tall weeds, we saw all the little insects and animals run out of the grass. The noise of the machines probably scared the spiders and roaches and beetles out of the grass, while the sudden emergence of these bugs attracted the birds.

All of a sudden I saw something move around in the grass near the edge of the dirt. I looked but didn’t see anything. As soon as I turned my gaze, I saw something again from the corner of my eye. It actually took me a while, but I finally saw a small brown frog in the dirt. Of course, it ran, but then I saw another and then another. It’s always nice to get a reminder that we’re not the only Northsiders that live on this block.