I'll have a large order of smog with a side of aphids.

It's been a strange summer in Toronto (weatherwise). There have been more smog alerts than I can count and for the past couple of weeks, the average temperature has been hovering above 30 celsius. And no rain. The result is that whenever I venture outside (I'm turning into a girl-shaped piece of tofu) a wave of hot, sticky, soggy air slams into me. The usual result is that I'm swept back indoors towards the closest a/c vent.

To top it all off, a cloud of aphids has descended on certain areas of downtown T.O. Yesterday it was so bad that it obscured most of the Blue Jays game at the Skydome. Which wasn't such a bad thing, since they lost. Hey...no great loss without some small gain, right?