The weather is amazing today. One moment the sun is shining down gloriously out of a pale summer-blue sky, and the heat builds up, urging me to peel off my sweater, and retreat into the coolness of the house, with all its windows closed and covered… and yet, barely have I sat down, and there is a sudden deep rumble overhead, and the sky turns dark, the world turns dark, and the rains pour down, pounding out its drum-beat on the roof. In moments the drains along the roof edges are full and overflowing, and as I open the door to look out, it sounds as though I am standing under a waterfall! I turn back to pick up my sweater, as cold shivers run down my back, and just as I pull in back on, the drum-beats on the roof stop, not slowly, but instantly, and within a few minutes the waterfalls have ceased and the sun is pouring down again. Off comes the sweater, again!

This is supposed to be the sunny, dry Okanagan. Today it reminds me of Masset on Haida Gwaii! I love weather, with lots of variety … and we sure are getting it the past couple days.

I just received a phone call from the new French teacher at the school I resigned from in June. She is actually francophone, which I think is wonderful! Now the students will develop great accents – I hope I haven’t messed them up too much in the past with my decidedly anglophone accent! Anyway, as soon as she got on the phone she starting speaking to me in French, and I was very happy to realize that I was understanding a lot of what she was saying – even with Star Wars blaring on the TV to distract me. Still, we ended up speaking in English, as the technical discussion about Ministry of Education requirements and stuff got beyond my comfort level in French. So I need to keep on working on my French – anyone out there want to help me?

I went to the library today and got a stack of books on website and blog design. I am really looking forward to the adventure of actually designing my own website and blog “look.” I’m using WordPress.org for my blog software and Bluehost for my web host… steps up from Blog.spot and Geocities! I’ll still be using my www.geocities.com/norma.hill web site until I get my new one up and running, and this will be my blog, but you can expect it to go through some pretty major changes in the near future. I’d love any ideas, comments, etc… My personal interests are varied; on my geocities site I have information on home schooling, Haida Gwaii, prayer, family, and a lot of creative writing. And you can see from my posts on here that there are other things I’m interested in, too. I’m trying to decide whether to focus on just one or two interests – or figure out a useful way to have a variety of interests on one site – or to perhaps end up with two or three sites. So if you have any thoughts, or a great site you’d like me to check out (and even link to), please let me know.

Many thanks in advance!

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