I got up a little after 0600 this morning, because when I got up it was too warm to try to go back to sleep. The temperature was almost 70 already and I knew that the temperature probably would break the hundred mark like they had been predicting.
So after eating, I made myself an egg omelet sandwich with onions and yellow pepper, and reading the paper I took the paper out front to the recycling bin and saw that the mailman was just down the street, so I waited for him to arrive and then went out and got it.
I think the only thing that I kept was my L.L. Bean catalog, Kathleen got a few things, but most of the rest was junk mail, which I took out front to the recycling bin.
Then I went outside and took the kitchen scraps to the compost tumbler, when I opened the door to the tumbler I saw these tall sprouts growing inside. I had not taken any scraps out to the tumbler for a couple days.
The last time I did there was some cantaloupe in what I brought out and it had started to sprout. I had not turned it since then, so it had ideal weather to start growing. After turning the tumbler a few times I went into the house, cleaned up and then went back outside and sat in the sun for a while.
I could see that the back rose garden, the square rose garden and the berry patch, needed edging really badly. So I got my grass shears and went to work. There were a couple flickers who were enjoying the blueberries and since I was so close by they kept dive bombing me. While I was out there a humming bird almost ran into me, for some reason this year they have been coming closer to me than in previous years.
By the time I finished I could tell that I had gotten a lot of sun, so I went into the house expecting to clean up and go grocery shopping with Kathleen. She was still in her night clothes, and she suggested that I take a shower and cool off.
So I took a cold shower, as cold as I could stand it. It really felt good, but by the time I finished and dried off, I was starting to perspire again.
I waited around for a while and Kathleen was still not ready, so about 1340, I made myself a Boca burger and used rest of the bread, a little after 1400 Kathleen came downstairs and was ready to go. We finally finished shopping about 1545 and leaving Winco I realized just how hot it was outside.
After we got home and put the groceries away, I noticed that it was 101 outside and we still had not reached the hot part of the day...that should be in a couple hours, probably about 1800.
I will finish this after dinner; I just wanted to get an early start on it before everything got too hot.
Although I should not complain as it is only 78 degrees in the house, this is the only time of year that I am glad that we live under a grove of fir trees.
Kathleen had planned on making a salad with chicken in it for tonight, but she said that it was too hot and she was too tired, so she micro waved the leftover rice dish from last night and added some rhubarb and cranberry sauce to complete the meal.
Well, it reached 102 today, which is hot enough for me...in fact about thirty degrees too hot for me. The temperature downstairs reached about eighty degrees, and upstairs was fifteen or so degrees warmer with the basement being nice and cool. I am too warm and tired to think of anything else to write about so I am just going to say good evening!
