Hot Enough For You??
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lydamorehouse The last few days have been Hellishly hot and I am not enjoying it.
My garden, which I will share some pictures of in a bit, is doing a bit better with it all? But, I have also been getting up super-early in order to get water in the ground before the temps soar to 100 F / 38 C.
I am hoping that the weather will break soon. We are headed to Bearskin Lodge on the Gunflint Trail on Saturday for a two week vacation (and before you worry that the thieves are all marking their calendar, we have someone staying in our place because we have an insanely geriatric cat who needs someone to make sure she's eating and drinking.) My point is, we have only two rooms with air-conditioning and that would SUCK for the person who is staying here. Our house is normally lovely? They will HATE it, if they have to sweat in it. I don't even love my house when I have to sweat in it.
Speaking of the up-coming vacation, I nearly panicked when I thought we wouldn't be home in time for this (https://events.sfwa.org/events/writing-date-with-lyda-morehouse-quiet-writing-room/), but we will!
Yesterday, I picked up the last of the Spring CSA. (Our house sitter will get the first two summer ones.)
Image: A lot of green! We got baby bok choy, a bag of power washed spinach, cilantro, mint, green onions, asparagus, and green kale.
The spinach is amazing, FYI. Even at the grocery store, I usually have to wash extra hard to get the grit off spinach. This stuff must have been power washed because, I could just grab a handful from the bag and munch it up! Which is handy because the amount of stuff I feel like doing in the kitchen (which is NOT one of the two air-conditioned rooms) is exactly ZERO. So, I made a couple of salads for dinner last night and they were AMAZING. To be fair, I also used the opportunity to use up some leftovers we had from our visitors who came for Mason's graduation.
Otherwise, I just want to show off a couple of flowers from the garden:
Image 1: The volunteer purple spirea that is just growing in a weird spot between my house and my neighbors.
Image 2: These I planted intentionally. In fact, I want to get more of these bright red Asian lilies.
Image: Another volunteer, spiderwort growing in that spot between the houses.
Hopefully, you are all doing as well as my garden and not feeling as melty as my brain.
Oh, and our cabins now come with some wifi (one of the few benefits of the pandemic!) So, I will be posting directly from the great northern Minnesota woods over the next couple of weeks.
My garden, which I will share some pictures of in a bit, is doing a bit better with it all? But, I have also been getting up super-early in order to get water in the ground before the temps soar to 100 F / 38 C.
I am hoping that the weather will break soon. We are headed to Bearskin Lodge on the Gunflint Trail on Saturday for a two week vacation (and before you worry that the thieves are all marking their calendar, we have someone staying in our place because we have an insanely geriatric cat who needs someone to make sure she's eating and drinking.) My point is, we have only two rooms with air-conditioning and that would SUCK for the person who is staying here. Our house is normally lovely? They will HATE it, if they have to sweat in it. I don't even love my house when I have to sweat in it.
Speaking of the up-coming vacation, I nearly panicked when I thought we wouldn't be home in time for this (https://events.sfwa.org/events/writing-date-with-lyda-morehouse-quiet-writing-room/), but we will!
Yesterday, I picked up the last of the Spring CSA. (Our house sitter will get the first two summer ones.)
Image: A lot of green! We got baby bok choy, a bag of power washed spinach, cilantro, mint, green onions, asparagus, and green kale.
The spinach is amazing, FYI. Even at the grocery store, I usually have to wash extra hard to get the grit off spinach. This stuff must have been power washed because, I could just grab a handful from the bag and munch it up! Which is handy because the amount of stuff I feel like doing in the kitchen (which is NOT one of the two air-conditioned rooms) is exactly ZERO. So, I made a couple of salads for dinner last night and they were AMAZING. To be fair, I also used the opportunity to use up some leftovers we had from our visitors who came for Mason's graduation.
Otherwise, I just want to show off a couple of flowers from the garden:
Image 1: The volunteer purple spirea that is just growing in a weird spot between my house and my neighbors.
Image 2: These I planted intentionally. In fact, I want to get more of these bright red Asian lilies.
Image: Another volunteer, spiderwort growing in that spot between the houses.
Hopefully, you are all doing as well as my garden and not feeling as melty as my brain.
Oh, and our cabins now come with some wifi (one of the few benefits of the pandemic!) So, I will be posting directly from the great northern Minnesota woods over the next couple of weeks.
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Date: 2021-06-11 12:47 am (UTC)We also only have spot air conditioning, and it's getting very tedious indeed. Yesterday afternoon we got one of the scattered thunderstorms, the temperature dropped 20 degrees, and I leapt up and made a huge bulgar wheat salad with chickpeas. I hadn't been able to to do it before because you have to--gasp--boil water, and that was a non-starter.
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Date: 2021-06-11 12:23 pm (UTC)