The week started with the weather channel and the local news telling us a big storm was coming,, a cyclone bomb, a nor’easter with high winds.
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I’m currently off FB because nitpickers kept driving me crazy complaining of typos.
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I’m going through a permanent bad hair day.
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I happened to remember an author whose books I enjoyed perhaps ten or fifteen years ago. I wondered if she’d published anything recently. I went on Amazon to check: nothing at all.
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All summer I’ve been baking clafoutis, as it’s more pleasant in the heat than making a pie.
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Most people no longer read much that isn’t on a screen.
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Tuesday we drove to Maine. We’ve done this trip every year since 1984.
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A Poem by Marge Piercy
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Today was a gorgeous day just as yesterday was and I was happy to get into the garden. I was pulling done plants out of my pollinator bed when a small wasp stung me on the chin. It hurt like hell.
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This week has been unbearably hot and humid. It feels as if the outdoors is sweating and miserable.
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We are waiting for Hurricane Henri to hit on Sunday. We are doing what preparations we can but anxiety reigns.
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We had a successful mouse hunt that is, Willow and Schartzie did – for four nights in a row.
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Willow is probably our brightest cat. She solves puzzles quickly. She also has the most intact instincts and is our best and most efficient mouser.
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We’ve never had main-crop tomatoes in July, let alone so many of them on platters in the dining room that we must use them or lose them.
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I think of the first harvest as the spring cole crops –broccoli, bok choi-- and cool weather greens like the many kinds of lettuce, radishes, arugula, mustard. Now we are in the midst of the second harvest.
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We are humid, very warm and humid. The mosquitoes swarms us when we venture out the door. Even getting to the car is a battle. And they get into the car and bite us as we drive.
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Offered the chance to spend the day off Cape with good friends, have a sumptuous lunch (INSIDE a restaurant!), and see dinosaurs, we took it.
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For the first time in about 12 years, Woody climbed the ladder in the bed of the truck and managed to pick a few baskets of sour cherries, which I love. We froze a quart for a pie and made cherry preserves.
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Woody set up the dehydrator for me. The first thing I’ll do is dry catnip. I buy commercial catnip fsometimes, but our homegrown stuff is stronger.
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It’s wasn’t easy this year (given COVID, etc.) but it was great!
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