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[Mendalla]

The ducks called. They want their grass back.

 

[BethAnne]

Niece here at 8 AM. We fixed the fence around the raspberries, toured the garden and identified everything I planted (that’s growing), picked rhubarb, chickweed, herbs, cherry tomatoes, and a handful of strawberries…prepared the rhubarb for juice…made a salad with the chickweed, carrots, cherry to tomatoes, sunflower seeds and grated cheese…made the last of the carrots in the fridge into a salad and into carrot noodles…made grapefruit juice from some grapefruit that needed used…made orange mango pineapple popcicles…mixed Borax/icing sugar to go on the anthills...watched a movie…she played with the Barbies for a bit…we played Clue - I won 1 of the 6 (?) games. And we talked lots Great day I drove her home (she'd biked over) as over 90F!...only hiccup to the day - aside from the heat - was that we couldn't find an ice cube tray! Mom used to have 6 and I know I said I didn't need that many but I'm SURE I kept as least one!

 

[Waterfall]

Niece here at 8 AM. We fixed the fence around the raspberries, toured the garden and identified everything I planted (that’s growing), picked rhubarb, chickweed, herbs, cherry tomatoes, and a handful of strawberries…prepared the rhubarb for juice…made a salad with the chickweed, carrots, cherry to tomatoes, sunflower seeds and grated cheese…made the last of the carrots in the fridge into a salad and into carrot noodles…made grapefruit juice from some grapefruit that needed used…made orange mango pineapple popcicles…mixed Borax/icing sugar to go on the anthills...watched a movie…she played with the Barbies for a bit…we played Clue - I won 1 of the 6 (?) games. And we talked lots Great day I drove her home (she'd biked over) as over 90F!...only hiccup to the day - aside from the heat - was that we couldn't find an ice cube tray! Mom used to have 6 and I know I said I didn't need that many but I'm SURE I kept as least one!
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Sounds like a lovely day!

 

[BethAnne]

Sounds like a lovely day!

It was, thanks

 

[BethAnne]

 

[BethAnne]

The carrot salad and carrot noodles we made yesterday

 

[Mendalla]

I think I am making our carrot salad recipe tonight. Shred the carrots in my food processor, fry mustard seeds in oil, dump oil and seeds on the carrots, add a bit of salt and lemon juice and toss.

 

[BethAnne]

I think I am making our carrot salad recipe tonight. Shred the carrots in my food processor, fry mustard seeds in oil, dump oil and seeds on the carrots, add a bit of salt and lemon juice and toss.

sounds yummy

 

[BethAnne]

Currently 96F and tomorrow is to be hotter, and next week even HOTTER! I decided that it is easier to deliver papers in extreme windchill than extreme heat because you can always add another layer against the cold, but there is a limit to the layers you can remove in the heat

 

[Mendalla]

Currently 96F and tomorrow is to be hotter, and next week even HOTTER! I decided that it is easier to deliver papers in extreme windchill than extreme heat because you can always add another layer against the cold, but there is a limit to the layers you can remove in the heat

Yeah, once you're encroaching on decency laws, there's not much more you can do.

 

[BethAnne]

Yeah, once you're encroaching on decency laws, there's not much more you can do.

and in heat like this, it doesn't take much to bump against a decency law. A nice middle of the road temp is my preferred ideal

 

[BetteTheRed]

Found a lovely 'dress' in a collection from sister yesterday that does pretty well in extreme heat. Light weight, but nicely opaque due to (beautiful) pattern, organic cotton, basically a lightly shaped hemmed square with a rounded neck that works like a hospital gown. Tied back then front, you get a soft ruched effect in the front, in the back, it's a bit more shape accentuating. Ties fall just below waist.

 

[BethAnne]

LAST in intense heat.........................................

 

[BethAnne]

 

[Luce NDs]

Said that it could burn the skin right of a mule ... like a bad heat in the dark ... something else! However ... it did start something ...

 

[Mendalla]

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Second one looks rather like here today. Cool today, too, which kind of surprises me this summer. Writing this on the deck so it's cool enough for me to work outdoors.

 

[BethAnne]

Papers all delivered! That was a brutal trip this time (and today I was home before the "worst" of the heat), and my left arm is very sunburnt

 

[Mendalla]

Ugh on the burn. I have actually done fairly well at avoiding that this summer and I'm rather prone to it as a fair-skinned person of Northern European descent.

 

[BethAnne]

Ugh on the burn. I have actually done fairly well at avoiding that this summer and I'm rather prone to it as a fair-skinned person of Northern European descent.

I wasn't able to avoid as I was driving with the sun on the driver's side for the majority of the trip both days

 

[BethAnne]