I don't want Florida's weather, please send it back home.

It is going to be a short post because it is the end of the day. It has been hot and humid. Surprisingly, my plants outside are doing ok. The Japanese beetles have slowed down their destruction of my rose bushes out front. They have yet to discover the one on the back deck. I am not completely sure what's brought about this change. Perhaps my flicking them off the bushes in the morning has been helping, I don't know.

I have been sorely tempted to take the boys over to the park so that we might spend some time in the water cooling off. The problem is, pretty much everybody and their brother has that idea, and there's still a pandemic going on. So, today I let them take extra long showers. They seemed to be refreshed after that. If nothing else, they were clean and smelled good. (Cuddle Bear is beginning to have a distinct scent to himself now as puberty is sinking its claws into him. I had wished we had a little more time before we had to work on stuff like finding deodorant that agrees with his skin and such. I was wrong.)

Summer session is challenging. Cuddle Bear is in Extended School Year program and visits the school four days a week for an hour and a half. They're practicing social distancing by having two students per classroom and the staff all have masks. He is being transported to school in a car with the driver wearing a mask and the car is cleaned up between students (each student being transported alone). They're not requiring masks for the students at this time. Beloved and I are talking about getting the boys a set of masks for when the school year begins and they are out in public more. Right now, we're home 99% of the time.

The big challenge with summer session is Snuggle Bug. He is in the Summer Skills program. They are doing that via distance learning. It's a little easier because I'm not rapidly switching between two different grade levels to do academic support for. At the same time, Snuggle Bug is attempting really hard to have fun instead of learn. He makes silly faces at the camera randomly. He throws out random jokes or starts making duck noises to make people laugh. He's a real character and trying to rein that in has been really hard. But, when he does get to work, his work is an unexpected approach. Their current project is planning how to run an imaginary ice cream truck. The teacher asked for songs the truck would play, he was first in the list with a suggestion: AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill. 

It's been an adventure to say the least.