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17/7/16 19:55![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronze_ribbonsIt is, according to the NashSevereWx chart, beyond "I need gills to breathe" hot in my here town right now (77 F dewpoint even with the sun down). I have been resisting the urge to go nap for hours in the bathtub or planetarium with great difficulty. But I have also discovered that an empty plastic Coke bottle (emblazoned with "What I like about you") can intone the A below middle C (give or take a half-step or two -- my piano is not A=440) when I whoosh it back and forth on my way back from some of the zinnias.
One of the zinnias is ready to pop, with purple-red petals visible in its widening center. Some of the thinnings have been sitting in water since last weekend, and I finally got them into the ground earlier today. There is a tomato cutting ready for a pot, but odds are I won't get to it until next weekend:
I pickled three cups of red peppers, saving the seeds to share and sow.
I have a bowl full of green ones as well -- one of the bushes out front looked significantly worse off than the others, so I decided to cut my losses with it today and harvest the fruit already on it. I will probably try sterilizing that patch of soil before I try planting anything else in it. I also binned two more French hollyhocks, although one had healthy buds and blooms at its tip -- I saved those for a short vase in the bathroom, where the buds are now opening.
At church, there was a quick rehearsal of "River in Judaea" for a memorial service, where there was laughter as well as tears among the many Methodists and Unitarian Universalists in attendance as they recalled (among many other memories) how Fred had become smitten with Dale at first sight when she walked into the liquor store where he worked ~ 50 years ago.
At home, the docket includes preparing lunch and lettering a birthday card. I might have to be okay with one out of two. And there is also pie:
One of the zinnias is ready to pop, with purple-red petals visible in its widening center. Some of the thinnings have been sitting in water since last weekend, and I finally got them into the ground earlier today. There is a tomato cutting ready for a pot, but odds are I won't get to it until next weekend:
I pickled three cups of red peppers, saving the seeds to share and sow.
I have a bowl full of green ones as well -- one of the bushes out front looked significantly worse off than the others, so I decided to cut my losses with it today and harvest the fruit already on it. I will probably try sterilizing that patch of soil before I try planting anything else in it. I also binned two more French hollyhocks, although one had healthy buds and blooms at its tip -- I saved those for a short vase in the bathroom, where the buds are now opening.
At church, there was a quick rehearsal of "River in Judaea" for a memorial service, where there was laughter as well as tears among the many Methodists and Unitarian Universalists in attendance as they recalled (among many other memories) how Fred had become smitten with Dale at first sight when she walked into the liquor store where he worked ~ 50 years ago.
At home, the docket includes preparing lunch and lettering a birthday card. I might have to be okay with one out of two. And there is also pie:
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18/7/16 12:49 (UTC)(no subject)
21/7/16 13:55 (UTC)That said, we're taking my intern to lunch today to celebrate the end of her term with us, and I think I'm going to suggest hitting Jeni's, an ice cream place near my house. :)