Sunday, August 02, 2009
August 2, 2009.
So, the news of the week is that it has been HOT.
So, the news of the week is that it has been HOT.
We saw a picture of Soren in Paris wearing his sweatshirt, but it was 106 degrees here. The big fat slob is lying in the wading pool, with her legs and arms hanging out, drinking her iced tea. The lilies which we’ve been waiting and waiting for finally bloomed – and that very day, in the heat, they BURNT. You can see the brown burn marks on the petals. Raspberries took one breath of the hot air and said “forget it!”, and they’re done for the season. One of the bean plants pretty much gave it up. I thought we’d lost the hanging basket, but we just lost all the flowers on it – the stems and leaves are hanging in there. One of the tomatoes has curled up its leaves and is trying to die. It’s HOT.We’re always so proud of ourselves that we don’t need air conditioning, and when we open the windows at night and close up in the morning, the house doesn’t usually get about 75 and never above 80. Well, welcome to the real world, Andrea. I got home from work one day and it was 82 downstairs. I think it may have gotten to 90 indoors. We had to move a bed downstairs to sleep, and it was STILL too hot. We couldn’t get the house below 74, even at 7 AM, for two or three days.
Hopefully, our “heat wave” is over, and it’s just the normal 90-95 degrees, which we can deal with and keep the house below 75. The lady in the grocery store commented that a few weeks ago, we’d be screaming at 90 degree weather. Now, well, it’s just 90, big deal. She’s right.
This weekend we had to do something, anyway. So on Friday we went for a bike ride along the burnt bridge creek trail. It’s pretty level, which is good. I don’t like going too fast (that’s the downhill part of hills) and I hate going up hills. So level works for me. It was fun – and hot.
And yesterday, we went to Hood River, and drove the fruit loop, which is not a cereal. We stopped at several farm stands and orchards, and picked up 25 pounds of apricots and 20 pounds of peaches. So today I have made 2 batches of apricot jam so far, and I’m getting ready to put up one batch of peaches. This morning we picked a few blackberries, and it’s possible that I’ll make a blackberry apricot pie. Fruit season is on.
And, isn’t that enough? What do you think?
