We began September with a trip up Cobble Hill Mountain. We kept walking each day. Our neighbour's miserable 3-legged, rescue pitbull-cross bit me! I was pruning our bush because some branches have grown over the fence, so I had my hip against the fence as I walked along our side of the property line, extending the clippers out in front of me. The dog jumped up and bit my elbow over top of the chain link fence. He punctured the skin with 3 teeth (2 fairly deep) and left many more scratches from his other teeth. The entire area was bruised and swollen. The deepest puncture wound began to swell like a goose egg, but immediately came back down when I applied ice. Fortunately, my tetanus booster is still valid and the dog has had his rabies shot. I am pleasantly surprised that the wounds have mostly healed, as Lisa did an impressive job of treating them. Over the Labour Day long weekend, we explored "up island". I created a separate blog post of our local mini-vacation. The vast majority of our time continues to be spent at home, though. Terrible wild fires in the west coast states of America turned our skies into a smoky haze for two weeks. Eventually smoke blew all the way across the continent. For several days it rendered the air quality in Vancouver the worst in the world! Unfortunately, the smoke was so thick that it made it unsafe to spend too much time outdoors and it lowered temperatures dramatically by practically blocking out the sun. What would have been our last two weeks of summer enjoyment, were spent primarily indoors. We made one last summer trip to the beach at Cees & Miep Hof Park. We had the CVRD bring in Onsight Tree Services to cut down a dead tree and the dead portions of another in the ravine behind our home. I "wasted" much of a glorious first day of Autumn doing outdoor yard work and overseeing contracted maintenance of the strata's catch basins and the ravine. It poured rain for most of the following day, but we still managed to squeeze in an estuary walk before grocery shopping. Before month's end, we made a second trip up Cobble Hill Mountain. September was a great month for professional sports entertainment! The NHL Playoffs concluded with the Lightning winning the Stanley Cup. The NBA Finals begin tonight between the Lakers and the Heat. Major League Baseball wrapped up its regular season and the postseason began yesterday with the Blue Jays involved for the first time since 2016. Unfortunately, the Jays were quickly dispatched by the Rays. The NFL kicked off a new season and I'm watching more games than ever while once again enjoying fantasy football. Meanwhile, the UFC continued to produce compelling fights. We tried out several TV series we hadn't seen previously. We enjoyed "Little Fires Everywhere" and season one of "Big Little Lies", but fell in love with "Ted Lasso". Once again there were some movies to watch, but nothing compelling. We will always find the time to do some pleasure reading. Unfortunately, life seems to always involve headaches of some sort: unexpectedly massive insurance costs, expensive renovations to rental properties, stressful strata council dealings, etc. No one likes to read about these though, and I try not to dwell on them, so... We were thrilled to enjoy surprisingly great weather at the end of September, even hiking Stoney Hill on the 30th. ...so concludes another month on Vancouver Island.
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