“It’s as hot as the hinges of Hades!” We’ve been fortunate that the temperatures have been fairly moderate this summer, but the “dog days” of August are upon us.
We went to exercise this morning. It was warm, but bearable with the fans running. We came home to a cool house and planned the meals for the coming week. We stopped for lunch, and then headed to Meijer’s and were nearly felled by the heat radiating up off the blacktop, as we walked from the car to the store.
We did the shopping and then I was such sissy that I asked Fred to bring the car to the front door to load. He’s truly a prince. He didn’t make me walk in the heat with him.
We got home and unloaded the car. Fred noted the darker clouds to the south as we left the store. He kept up a running commentary on how dark it was getting, and the increase in the winds. We haven’t had much rain the past few weeks, and I figured I was going to have to go out to water the patio plants, when the storm slid past us.
Right after we got the groceries put away, the heavens opened! I love hearing rain on the roof. I felt “snug as a bug in a rug,” (another of Mother’s sayings??), knowing that I could sit inside and listen. The rain was pretty hard, and was getting lashed by heavy winds.
Alas, it didn’t last. I doubt we had fifteen minutes of rain. But, at least I don’t have to water the plants! It will be interesting to see if the storm washed out any of the humidity, or whether it just added to it.
We’ve been extraordinarily fortunate the past two mornings – in the high 50s! It makes it a lot more bearable that I am getting my aerobic activity through sawing.
This should have been on my comment to your other posting: The only needlework I’m doing these days is during the hour-and-a-half that I spend at the senior center each Wednesday morning. For the past several weeks, I’ve been working on embroidering a tea towel with a rose – mostly satin (or long-and-short) stitching. A couple or three more weeks and it should be completed. I’ve several knitting projects that I started about 18 months ago to complete, then.
It’s been cool here this week, perhaps 15 degrees cooler than average for late August. What have you been sawing?? We had a tree taken down this spring, rather than do it ourselves. We asked them to take the wood because we have this little gas log fire now.
I haven’t done any crocheting in a year or two, and I have one small hand quilting project that I’ve been working on forever. Otherwise all my work has been at the sewing machine.
I’m sorry to hear that you are not quilting. 🙁
I saw down lots of trees to keep our woods from being impenetrable and the edge trees from reaching out to grab HH as he tries to mow. If the tree is more than 3″ or 4″ in diameter, it takes much sawing to get the tree into small enough pieces that I can lug them back to the brush piles that are as far away from houses as I can get them.
This will sound odd, but I miss having enough land to be able to have a brush pile! lol Every inch is planted or in grass here, so everything has to be bagged for the city to pick up. I miss the space. I hope you aren’t overdoing moving all that brush!
Surprise!! I haven’t been by in a long time so thought I needed to check in and catch up you and Fred have been doing.
How nice to see you here! I’ve tried a few of the recipes you’ve shared. I think hamburger soup is up next.
Fred is soaring, and I’m quilting’ As he would say, “We’re both yet livin’ !” I hope you’re well.
It’s been raining stair-rods here today, after a couple of warm days, too!
“Stair-rods” Now, that’s one I’ve never heard! We could use a little more rain here. We’re north of Interstate 80, and all the rain this summer seems to have gone south. We’ve driven through some of the flooded areas, so we’re not complaining, but we could use a few more showers.