This has been a sleep “lite” week.. Over the weekend Ellie came down with tonsillitis and had a high fever and we had to take her to the hospital a couple of times late at night. Add to that a couple of nights of Ellie waking in the night and one night with a thunder storm rolling through at 3:00 am. Normally Ellie sleeps 12 hours straight through the night.

Naomi has the ability to get up and look after Ellie and go back to sleep. I am not so blessed. I had to get up at 4:00 the other day to check on Ellie (turned out she was hungry) and then tried to go back to sleep. This didn’t work so well.. I laid there for a bit, read awhile, then finally got up after only 4 hours sleep. I don’t drink coffee, so that day I needed the Dew Fuel, the high caffeine Mountain Dew. In fact, I’ve had quite a bit this week..

Recommended Dosage(Adults): Drink 710 ml (2 cans) as needed.

Ellie is doing much better now. She no longer has the fever and is sleeping through the night again. And so are we.

We had a major storm system go through our area tonight.. You could see this wide band of cloud stretching across the sky coming our way.
The view from the ground.

What it looked like on radar

We had high wind which suddenly dropped about 10 degrees in temperature (from 31 to 21, it felt quite nice!) and then the rain came! In half an hour we had 1cm of rain come down very hard with driving wind.

One local weather sensor station reported wind gusts of over 70 km/hr. At least one tornado came from this system that touched down near Guelph. (UPDATE: Final count was 8 tornadoes)

Overhead.