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Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Too hot!

It's been 93F with the heat index well over 100. Soccer practices and games are delayed or cancelled. I'm ready for the heat to break at the end of this week.

Zari is back in Toronto and me her new roommate. She complained about having to buy lots of food to get herself started for the year. She also has a different size bed so had to buy new sheets.

Not a whole lot else that's newsworthy. Oh, we have a massive hole in the carriage house at the moment. We had to take out a bank of 3 windows that are 116 years old. I'm going to restore them as there was water/termite damage and rot. Don't worry, my amazing does-everything guy will put it all back together!



Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Deportation scare

Zari flew back to Canada today and had a big scare at her connection in Warsaw. She applied to renew her visa back in February, and she had a temporary extension that had expired 4 days previously. Despite contacting the Prefecture 4+ times to get an "attestation de prolongation", they never responded. We had already contacted the French border police about her case, and they said that it wouldn't be a big deal and to print out proof that we had attempted to contact the Prefecture.

Well...turns out it was a huge deal in Poland! They almost deported Zari but she got off with a warning, but only after being totally freaked out and feeling like she was a criminal.

She's back in Toronto now and all is well. But that was scary!

It's so hot here that soccer practices and games have been cancelled or moved later into the evening. The heat should break by the end of this week.

I'm tired! Bedtime for me :)

Oh, I just had an article come out in AIMS journal: "Imagining Breech Birth Without Borders." Check it out here:

https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/item/breech-birth-training