Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Good God, chiclets, I was just out on the deck and is it warm and steamy. Ick! It's 90 degrees (32.2 Celsius) and the heat index (how it supposedly feels) is 92, but it seems much higher. Will be staying inside today.

Oh well. Almost done with Olive Kitteridge. Have been doing more spring cleaning of a sort -- going through closets and drawers for clothing to go to Goodwill. Not much else at the moment.

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[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I left the Scottish Festival after two hours, which I never. WAY TOO HOT. Also, I was cranky.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

It is NASTY out! Although the blue jays seem to like it ... but it feels as if it's 94 or 95!

Heh, I am almost always cranky.

... Weatherscan now says it's 93, with a heat index of 95. Bleh.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I've been out weeding the garden and actually got a little sick to my stomach from the humidity. It's not that hot temp-wise, but it's like being encased in giant, steamy hands.

But at least that chore's done and the tomato plants are all neatly tied up against the stakes and trellis.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that's happened to me and it's such a yucky feeling. But yay for getting the tomatoes done! I'm sure that makes them easier to take care of.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

There's one cucumber vine that has aspirations to be tall instead of wide, and it was growing up one of the young rosemary plants. So I snipped off the rosemary twigs it was attached to and then made a little trellis out of sticks and string for it. That was a first! :D

And the summer squash have once again proven to be an all boy's club. They've not set anything but male blooms, so no squash again this year. *sigh*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh -- in Japan we used a small rosemary "tree" as a Christmas tree. You could buy a real Christmas tree, but they cost around $300. The rosemary worked just as well. *g*

That's too bad about the squash! At least the blooms are pretty. Maybe you could try making fried squash blossoms?

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea for tabletop Christmas tree. There are only certain kinds of greenery approved for use in Advent wreaths (seriously, the Episcopal Church regulates everything) and one of them is rosemary. So it already has a Christmas-y association.

I've read the squash blooms can be eaten raw in a salad, so that's probably what I'll do with them. Fried would be wonderful, until I got on the scale! :D

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

(barges into thread) I've always wanted to use a bonsai tree for a Christmas tree. I never bother decorating for Christmas, though, because I don't spend the holidays at home.
It's wet AGAIN, and 16'C. But I know the bad heat will come eventually.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Bonsai trees are cool! I ordered a bonsai tree for someone from Joe Bonsai (http://www.joebonsai.com/) and I know it arrived in good shape.

It is 97 degrees here now (36.1 C). Our next-door neighbor is mowing his lawn. Yikes.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

You should get one and make some tiny jewel ornaments to go on it. That would be a unique Christmas tree.

Oh, and put it up high so the kitty sisters don't take it apart! :D

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's a good idea.
My late grandmother hand-made all of her Christmas ornaments. Crocheted snowflakes, little knitted Santas, styrofoam snowmen, tiny pine wreathes. Her Christmas tree was gorgeous.

[aries-ascendant.livejournal.com]

I'm using the heat as an exuse to buy new summer dresses. (Or as my husband calls them affectionately, "hippie dresses") I refuse to wear anything heavier than cotton or more clothing than is strictly necessary for public decency in the heat. :)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh, this. I've just changed out all the flannels in my pajama drawer for the light cotton stuff.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

We always joke that I bring on a late cold snap every spring by hanging the winter clothes up on the top rail in the closets. :D

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

GOD IF ONLY IT WERE TRUE HERE.

;-D

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Spring here is the time of "four seasons in one day." We spend a couple of months not knowing how to dress.

My husband often jokes that North Georgia is the South's Seattle. :D

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Hi everybody!! We've had a fairly lazy Saturday, and I'm about to go for a quick grocery trip (the schedule is changing, because we get our first CSA box on Tuesday. So the big menu planning will happen after we know what's in the box.) we went to the library and the park! ;)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hi Perspi! I was reading the new issue of The New Yorker, and then I folded sheets, and now I'm about to venture outside in the heat to get the mail.

EXCITEMENT!

[bethbetter.livejournal.com]

*waves*
Nightdog, I have too many books I want to read. :(
It is a tragedy. Also I worked at the library today, which was also rather tragic. People do not like being fined.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

We are in the same book-boat! :-)

People do not like being fined.

I can imagine. Maybe if you connected the fines = library remaining open? Nah, that probably wouldn't do any good. :-P