There’s something concerning watching the number of heat deaths in the summer get an extra 0 added to the end, year after year.

I’m in Alberta and seeing all the indications of it being really dry does give this ever-present uneasy feeling. The gravel roads are extra dusty, the quack grass in yellowing, fields have white salt deposit spots from where the last bits of pond water had evaporated.

We’ve got a well-oiled watering routine going for our trees, but if this is “the new normal” it feels a bit futile - soon enough the water table will drop below our well pump. So, there is a feeling of only delaying the inevitable.

We’ve been under smoke cover for a good 3 weeks to a month already this year so I’m hardly surprised. It’s depressing to think this is likely just what summer is now. Only progressively worse.

With how little it’s rained here in the past month I’m definitely quite concerned