Sunday - night

A day off is almost like nothing off.  You just get a little break from work and then right back at it.  

Anyway, yesterday....It was plain out HOT outside.  Crazy heat.  Like, stay indoors type of heat - of which we and several others did not do.  That's because they had a 4th of July parade through downtown yesterday starting at 3:30.  We had a group of 4 ladies in a dressed up golf cart and at least one child walking - walking fast - running to keep up - beside it.  

I was sitting at the end of the parade waiting for them, but when i saw that child, the oldest kid here, I freaked out.  His face was bright red, he was barely moving and he was obviously suffering from whatever form of heat illness.  I mean, it was bad enough that I took him over to the EMS tent where the chief of the local EMS division for our town was there along with several others.  Perfect place for that child to be!

But I just sat him down at first, poured some ice cold water over his head and hoped that would help. It did help but not near enough.  I asked if there was a medic here?  Older gentlemen in excellent physical condition came over and we brought the boy in front of a huge fan they had set up.  They were prepared for this, I  give them credit.   

The fan and some cold packs and rags that had been drenched in cold water started to help, but he was out of it.  They didn't determine he needed hospitalization so I took him home. Our house is kept quite chilled.  But, even laying in bed with a huge ceiling fan over him and in a nicely cooled house, he was still complaining about how "hot" it is in this house. I told him if these symptoms didn't start to recede soon, he is going to be taking a cold shower. THAT .... WILL ....cool him down.  

From the time this started with him to the time he finally started looking normal again, it was a couple of hours.  We weren't going to hang out downtown that long anyway. It was the parade - there wasn't a lot of people comparatively speaking to other parades, but my guess is that it was just plain too hot for folks to want to sit out there.  

The drone show - replacing what this town deems as an eternal fire hazard having fireworks and having them banned within city limits, you can't even possess them - was at 9:30. We went back downtown at around 8:00 to hang out at the local brewery - it is a gathering center, 3 stories tall and people go there to eat only, not just drinking craft beer.  Well, it started raining. And raining, and raining.  Around 9:10 pm, it finally quit raining but apparently too late: they canceled the show. 

We left there after we heard that, no sense in staying there for nothing. We went and bought our own fireworks, went over to my property - which is outside of city limits and you can burn whatever, light off fireworks, whatever, whenever the only time it's restricted is during a burn ban.  They determine either the conditions are too dry or the winds are too heavy to allow outdoor burning. 

It was fun and a good replacement for a canceled drone show that had been getting hyped up for so long. Ridiculous.  

Today - church, applebee's, home.  We are not eating out often at all now. 2 adults in the house are on serious diets and eating out is difficult - not impossible - but hard to adhere to the keto diet.  Applebee's does have some offerings tho that fit the bill. Steak, salmon, chicken breast, bone-in hot wings. 

I had hot wings, delicious, very low carb and filling.  

It's almost time to go to bed already and I don't really feel like I had a day off at all, lol.  Back to that plant in Lufkin which can't get their act together. You sit and wait - and wait- and wait for them to load the truck.

With that? I bid you a good night.