Tuesday August 21
Waves of heavy thunderstorms came through last night. I definitely won't have to water the gardens today. And, considering the forecast for scattered storms today, I think working inside will be the order of the day. I am still working on the What-not Room.
Wednesday August 22
Heavy storms again intermittently yesterday. Parts of the gardens look a bit bedraggled but I am going to wait til tomorrow to do anything out there. We plan to take the last of the books to the library. That will clear out that corner on the upstairs landing. I did get a couple of tasks done in the What-not Room and the brought a bit of order to my chair-side table. Too much stuff that I need or don't want too far away when I do want it.
Thursday August 23
Books are gone. It was a nice cool day yesterday and we expect another today. The rains and the cooler temps have encouraged the herbs. I need to harvest some more. The dehydrator will be busy for as long as we have some dry days for garden work.
The future of medicine? Well, what the author describes is what we have been seeing around here.
Stories about the agricultural effects of the heatwave in Europe are coming in faster now. Short version: it isn't good. And this story falls into the OMG-WTF!!! category.
Friday August 24
Though the temps should still be cool we expect possible showers. If it is still dry when we finish breakfast I will harvest more herbs to dry. I have six trays of dry herbs to process and put up.
Well, we have had breakfast and the rain has held off so far. Ground and stored three trays each of lemon verbena and spearmint. Harvested pineapple sage and lavender which is now drying. I have other tasks planned but now it is time for a rest.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Monday August 20
Goodness!! Already two thirds of the way through August. The heat we had earlier has let up a bit--only in the mid 80s for the most part. The humidity makes it feel hotter. I can work outside on dry days a bit longer now. Tomato season is done for us and a disappointing one it has been. Not much in the way of fruit and a lot with very heavy, straw-like cores. I pulled the plants, collected all the ripe tomatoes and Mom stewed them. We had a dish with supper last night and put a quart in the freezer. I am definitely going to give tomatoes a pass next year.
I am ahead on my fall clean-up. The shed is almost cleaned out and straightened up. I think we definitely had mice last year. I found the peanut/corn bird feed in places where I know I never put it. Their cache is gone and I will put the stock into a more secure container.
We are gettin a good rain now. I had hoped we would so I wouldn't have to water anything for a couple of days. We may get more tomorrow morning.
William Astore cross-posted at Naked Capitalism (originally posted at Tomdispatch) has a lot to say about the militarization of sports and none of it good. I think I have said before that hate that obligatory "Thank you for your service" that ends any interview featuring a service member or former service member. It requires no thought, no sacrifice, nothing that truly benefits the service member.
Andrew Kurjata (a writer I haven't encountered before) gives an almost lyrical account of an "apocalyptic" summer in British Columbia.
Yeah--"shit-life syndrome" just about covers it. The subtitle says that cancelling Brexit might save the Brits but the conditions outlined in the article were glaringly evident before the Brexit vote and they are evident on this side of the Atlantic, as the author notes, and we got Trump from the same discontent.
Goodness!! Already two thirds of the way through August. The heat we had earlier has let up a bit--only in the mid 80s for the most part. The humidity makes it feel hotter. I can work outside on dry days a bit longer now. Tomato season is done for us and a disappointing one it has been. Not much in the way of fruit and a lot with very heavy, straw-like cores. I pulled the plants, collected all the ripe tomatoes and Mom stewed them. We had a dish with supper last night and put a quart in the freezer. I am definitely going to give tomatoes a pass next year.
I am ahead on my fall clean-up. The shed is almost cleaned out and straightened up. I think we definitely had mice last year. I found the peanut/corn bird feed in places where I know I never put it. Their cache is gone and I will put the stock into a more secure container.
We are gettin a good rain now. I had hoped we would so I wouldn't have to water anything for a couple of days. We may get more tomorrow morning.
William Astore cross-posted at Naked Capitalism (originally posted at Tomdispatch) has a lot to say about the militarization of sports and none of it good. I think I have said before that hate that obligatory "Thank you for your service" that ends any interview featuring a service member or former service member. It requires no thought, no sacrifice, nothing that truly benefits the service member.
Andrew Kurjata (a writer I haven't encountered before) gives an almost lyrical account of an "apocalyptic" summer in British Columbia.
Yeah--"shit-life syndrome" just about covers it. The subtitle says that cancelling Brexit might save the Brits but the conditions outlined in the article were glaringly evident before the Brexit vote and they are evident on this side of the Atlantic, as the author notes, and we got Trump from the same discontent.
Friday, August 17, 2018
Monday August 13
We had guests today so nothing got done in the gardens. I will absolutely have to water tomorrow morning because it has gotten hot today.
Tuesday August 14
Supposed to be warm again today--another 90F day. I will water everything and then do inside tasks. Tomorrow they say we start a cooler and wetter pattern.
I did get the watering done--just in time since the sage and both rosemary plants were wilting. Otherwise everything looks good. I have a couple of peppers and tomatoes that will be ready in the next couple of days.
Discovered something new this morning: aseptic milk. One of the grocery ads listed it. According to the web it is actually "ultra high temperature" pasteurized milk that is shelf stable for four months without refrigeration after which it is good refrigerated for seven days. Now that I know what it is I will make sure I don't buy any,
Wednesday August 15
The temperature is supposed to moderate a bit--from 90F down to low 80s. And we might get some rain. The reports say scattered thundershowers which may or may not dump anything on us.
The kids are back in school. We saw our usual crowds Monday when we went out to get some snacks for our guests. We went out a bit later yesterday to do grocery shopping and saw the bus had already passed by. My step-niece's children started yesterday. It seems that the school year starts sooner, ends later each year.
Thursday August 16
I don't think we got any rain overnight and didn't get any yesterday. I will water early. Once upon a time the forecast we had for yesterday and today would have meant a very good probability of rain. Nowadays not so much.
Friday August 17
A heavy downpour woke me earlier. It is too dark yet to see if anything was damaged in the gardens.
Found several nice strawberries which are going to go with our ice cream tomorrow night. They will be joined by several more which should ripen by tomorrow morning.
Charles Hugh Smith has the right idea.
The Atlantic has this piece on a variety of corn that is host to nitrogen fixing bacteria which, in essence, self fertilizes. The only problem is the very long maturation time--8 months. The researchers are doing preliminary work on hybridizing that variety with our commercial ones.
We had guests today so nothing got done in the gardens. I will absolutely have to water tomorrow morning because it has gotten hot today.
Tuesday August 14
Supposed to be warm again today--another 90F day. I will water everything and then do inside tasks. Tomorrow they say we start a cooler and wetter pattern.
I did get the watering done--just in time since the sage and both rosemary plants were wilting. Otherwise everything looks good. I have a couple of peppers and tomatoes that will be ready in the next couple of days.
Discovered something new this morning: aseptic milk. One of the grocery ads listed it. According to the web it is actually "ultra high temperature" pasteurized milk that is shelf stable for four months without refrigeration after which it is good refrigerated for seven days. Now that I know what it is I will make sure I don't buy any,
Wednesday August 15
The temperature is supposed to moderate a bit--from 90F down to low 80s. And we might get some rain. The reports say scattered thundershowers which may or may not dump anything on us.
The kids are back in school. We saw our usual crowds Monday when we went out to get some snacks for our guests. We went out a bit later yesterday to do grocery shopping and saw the bus had already passed by. My step-niece's children started yesterday. It seems that the school year starts sooner, ends later each year.
Thursday August 16
I don't think we got any rain overnight and didn't get any yesterday. I will water early. Once upon a time the forecast we had for yesterday and today would have meant a very good probability of rain. Nowadays not so much.
Friday August 17
A heavy downpour woke me earlier. It is too dark yet to see if anything was damaged in the gardens.
Found several nice strawberries which are going to go with our ice cream tomorrow night. They will be joined by several more which should ripen by tomorrow morning.
Charles Hugh Smith has the right idea.
The Atlantic has this piece on a variety of corn that is host to nitrogen fixing bacteria which, in essence, self fertilizes. The only problem is the very long maturation time--8 months. The researchers are doing preliminary work on hybridizing that variety with our commercial ones.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Monday August 6
I think I will be lazy today. Yesterday was busy and I feel the effects in every muscle and joint. I finished the embroidery on another scarf and pulled the thread I need for another--and made a list of the colors I need to buy for it. It never fails. In spite of the collection of thread I have amassed over the decades I always find the pattern calls for colors I don't have. I finished the herbs in the dehydrator--meaning I chopped them and put them in their jars on my shelf. I cut others and they are waiting in the dehydrator and will wait until I feel like standing for enough time to finish them. I also decided it was time to get some of our frozen fruit finely chopped for yogurt so I did another long stint of standing while dealing with blueberries, cherries, apples, strawberries, and peaches. That is all in small tightly covered bowls in the freezer.
The weather everywhere is simply insane--case in point. Or this long piece in the New York Times. Naomi Klein posted this one at the Intercept which takes on another New York Times Magazine article.
Tuesday August 7
It will be another lazy day. Yesterday became a bit busier than I intended because we decided to take three boxes of books to the library and while we were out also went to Michaels for the embroidery floss I wanted and to Meijer for some small jelly jars I plan to use next time I need to chop fruit. We don't have any errands left til next week.
I spent a fair bit of time looking for a book of iron-on transfer patterns I knew I had but couldn't put my hand on right away. That always happens when you have reorganized in a major way. I knew I hadn't disposed of the book but where in this new arrangement I put it was a mystery. Thankfully "was" is the operative word. I finally found it. But just in case I found a couple of similar books at Barnes&Noble and ordered on-line.
Another reason to eliminate plastic from our lives--as much as possible.
Wednesday August 8
We have had rain today so no gardening. I did get a look at things and found the Lemon Boy
tomatoes ripening. they will be ready soon. The Ox Heart tomatoes are still green. The red bell peppers aren't ripe yet or showing signs of turning red.
We had to make a quick run out to the grocery store. I found only three cans of cat food on the shelf which wouldn't last us til our normal shopping day next week. Since the Cats must be fed we dis a quick run and got a couple of other items we might have run out of over the weekend.
This is a good piece from US News on climate change. The author focuses on the heatwave that, it seems, is everywhere across the globe this year. Our temperatures have moderated somewhat though the mid-80s can still be uncomfortable. We also have had sporadic rain which is very welcome considering how dry it has been lately. This article provides a snapshot of what is happening in Europe.
I started patio gardening here about 15 years ago. My sister gave Mom a potted tomato plant for Mothers' Day. I tended it and we both enjoyed the tomatoes. One year was so cold over the summer I actually looked at adding a cold tolerant tomato variety to our garden. I didn't because the warmth came back and our usual varieties did well. Until about three years ago I always had an abundance of tomatoes. We couldn't eat them fast enough or give them away fast enough. So I took up canning tomato sauce and whole tomatoes. The harvests have gone down since then and the temperatures have gone up. Last year I canned tomatoes we bought in bulk at our local farm market. We won't can any this year because we don't have either the time or energy. Our own tomatoes are not as prolific as they should be. A heatwave early in the season that gave us a week and a bit in the 90s (with a couple of days almost hitting 100) made sure those blossoms didn't set fruit. The plants recovered slowly and though we do have tomatoes ripening they are few. I don't think I will do tomatoes next year. I think I mentioned before that our patio acts like an oven and concentrates heat. The official temperature may be in the mid to high 80s but on the patio that translates to mid to high 90s.
Thursday August 9
Finished off the chives, spearmint, peppermint, and sage in the dehydrator and loaded said machine with cinnamon basil, tarragon, and more spearmint. Then deadheaded several geraniums and took out the Vernissage tomato. We tried a couple and decided it wasn't worth keeping. The flavor is so-so and it has a very thick skin. The Lemon Boy is starting to ripen but the Ox Heart is still green. Mom insists: no fried green tomatoes this year. The rain we got was nice but the moisture didn't last very long. I plan on watering everything very well tomorrow morning.
Friday August 10
Well, I won't have to water. We got some rain late yesterday and overnight. I plan to finish off the herbs in the dehydrator but won't pick any more til tomorrow--when things will have dried out a bit.
So they have found a word for acquiring more books that you can possibly read. Sometime ago the needlework groups had a term for a similar accumulation of materials: SABLE--Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. I guess the bibliophile equivalent is BABLE--Books Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. I have both conditions.
So Repthuglicans propose shifting the money for new Coast Guard icebreakers to that piece of crap proposed wall on the border. We have ONE 42-year-old icebreaker that was reactivated in 2012 after $60million in repairs. Once upon a time we had six. Russia has...40+ according to the last report I saw. It seems to me they ask themselves which is the least useful and needful piece of "infrastructure" (and that is using the term very loosely applied to the wall) and choose to fund it first.
I hope the critics scuttle this plan. Again an unnecessary and wasteful #45-ego stroking exercise. Money that could be used to rebuild bridges, roads, etc., squandered on a redundant military expansion.
Saturday August 11
Should be a nice day to harvest some more herbs and get some clean-up I have been putting off done. I might even get some hemming on pieces I have finished the embroidery on but haven't quite finished entirely. I also have a couple that need a bit of pressing.
I wonder if the costs of lost land and revenue are calculated into the true "cost" of oil drilling. My guess--not on your life. The oil would be far too expensive to market. And the products too expensive for consumers to buy. And you can't eat oil so if enough good farming land is polluted we'll be too dead to buy petroleum products.
I picked two dehydrator trays of spearmint and four of lavender. I took out the purple bell--it simply isn't producing much and not worth the effort to keep it watered. I still have a red bell and a shishito. So far the shishito peppers are smaller than I expected based on past experience but there is a fair quantity of them. The red bell is a new variety for me and is producing a nice quantity of large peppers. Mom is in the process of freezing those and we will put the last of the purple bells in our chef salads for supper. I am taking a bit of a break before heading out to do some more cleaning.
I think I will be lazy today. Yesterday was busy and I feel the effects in every muscle and joint. I finished the embroidery on another scarf and pulled the thread I need for another--and made a list of the colors I need to buy for it. It never fails. In spite of the collection of thread I have amassed over the decades I always find the pattern calls for colors I don't have. I finished the herbs in the dehydrator--meaning I chopped them and put them in their jars on my shelf. I cut others and they are waiting in the dehydrator and will wait until I feel like standing for enough time to finish them. I also decided it was time to get some of our frozen fruit finely chopped for yogurt so I did another long stint of standing while dealing with blueberries, cherries, apples, strawberries, and peaches. That is all in small tightly covered bowls in the freezer.
The weather everywhere is simply insane--case in point. Or this long piece in the New York Times. Naomi Klein posted this one at the Intercept which takes on another New York Times Magazine article.
Tuesday August 7
It will be another lazy day. Yesterday became a bit busier than I intended because we decided to take three boxes of books to the library and while we were out also went to Michaels for the embroidery floss I wanted and to Meijer for some small jelly jars I plan to use next time I need to chop fruit. We don't have any errands left til next week.
I spent a fair bit of time looking for a book of iron-on transfer patterns I knew I had but couldn't put my hand on right away. That always happens when you have reorganized in a major way. I knew I hadn't disposed of the book but where in this new arrangement I put it was a mystery. Thankfully "was" is the operative word. I finally found it. But just in case I found a couple of similar books at Barnes&Noble and ordered on-line.
Another reason to eliminate plastic from our lives--as much as possible.
Wednesday August 8
We have had rain today so no gardening. I did get a look at things and found the Lemon Boy
tomatoes ripening. they will be ready soon. The Ox Heart tomatoes are still green. The red bell peppers aren't ripe yet or showing signs of turning red.
We had to make a quick run out to the grocery store. I found only three cans of cat food on the shelf which wouldn't last us til our normal shopping day next week. Since the Cats must be fed we dis a quick run and got a couple of other items we might have run out of over the weekend.
This is a good piece from US News on climate change. The author focuses on the heatwave that, it seems, is everywhere across the globe this year. Our temperatures have moderated somewhat though the mid-80s can still be uncomfortable. We also have had sporadic rain which is very welcome considering how dry it has been lately. This article provides a snapshot of what is happening in Europe.
I started patio gardening here about 15 years ago. My sister gave Mom a potted tomato plant for Mothers' Day. I tended it and we both enjoyed the tomatoes. One year was so cold over the summer I actually looked at adding a cold tolerant tomato variety to our garden. I didn't because the warmth came back and our usual varieties did well. Until about three years ago I always had an abundance of tomatoes. We couldn't eat them fast enough or give them away fast enough. So I took up canning tomato sauce and whole tomatoes. The harvests have gone down since then and the temperatures have gone up. Last year I canned tomatoes we bought in bulk at our local farm market. We won't can any this year because we don't have either the time or energy. Our own tomatoes are not as prolific as they should be. A heatwave early in the season that gave us a week and a bit in the 90s (with a couple of days almost hitting 100) made sure those blossoms didn't set fruit. The plants recovered slowly and though we do have tomatoes ripening they are few. I don't think I will do tomatoes next year. I think I mentioned before that our patio acts like an oven and concentrates heat. The official temperature may be in the mid to high 80s but on the patio that translates to mid to high 90s.
Thursday August 9
Finished off the chives, spearmint, peppermint, and sage in the dehydrator and loaded said machine with cinnamon basil, tarragon, and more spearmint. Then deadheaded several geraniums and took out the Vernissage tomato. We tried a couple and decided it wasn't worth keeping. The flavor is so-so and it has a very thick skin. The Lemon Boy is starting to ripen but the Ox Heart is still green. Mom insists: no fried green tomatoes this year. The rain we got was nice but the moisture didn't last very long. I plan on watering everything very well tomorrow morning.
Friday August 10
Well, I won't have to water. We got some rain late yesterday and overnight. I plan to finish off the herbs in the dehydrator but won't pick any more til tomorrow--when things will have dried out a bit.
So they have found a word for acquiring more books that you can possibly read. Sometime ago the needlework groups had a term for a similar accumulation of materials: SABLE--Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. I guess the bibliophile equivalent is BABLE--Books Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. I have both conditions.
So Repthuglicans propose shifting the money for new Coast Guard icebreakers to that piece of crap proposed wall on the border. We have ONE 42-year-old icebreaker that was reactivated in 2012 after $60million in repairs. Once upon a time we had six. Russia has...40+ according to the last report I saw. It seems to me they ask themselves which is the least useful and needful piece of "infrastructure" (and that is using the term very loosely applied to the wall) and choose to fund it first.
I hope the critics scuttle this plan. Again an unnecessary and wasteful #45-ego stroking exercise. Money that could be used to rebuild bridges, roads, etc., squandered on a redundant military expansion.
Saturday August 11
Should be a nice day to harvest some more herbs and get some clean-up I have been putting off done. I might even get some hemming on pieces I have finished the embroidery on but haven't quite finished entirely. I also have a couple that need a bit of pressing.
I wonder if the costs of lost land and revenue are calculated into the true "cost" of oil drilling. My guess--not on your life. The oil would be far too expensive to market. And the products too expensive for consumers to buy. And you can't eat oil so if enough good farming land is polluted we'll be too dead to buy petroleum products.
I picked two dehydrator trays of spearmint and four of lavender. I took out the purple bell--it simply isn't producing much and not worth the effort to keep it watered. I still have a red bell and a shishito. So far the shishito peppers are smaller than I expected based on past experience but there is a fair quantity of them. The red bell is a new variety for me and is producing a nice quantity of large peppers. Mom is in the process of freezing those and we will put the last of the purple bells in our chef salads for supper. I am taking a bit of a break before heading out to do some more cleaning.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Monday July 30
We keep hearing from the economic/political cheerleaders that the economy is roaring along nicely. Why do I keep reading stories like this one? Which do we need more: infrastructure that moves the economy or #45's Wall?
Ugo Bardi has a good piece on how and why "climate change" may fall off the public radar.
Tuesday July 31
Wednesday August 1
Welcome to August. The year is certainly going by rapidly. We were busy yesterday finishing the shopping we didn't get done Monday. The local store which has carried the yogurt we like didn't have it in stock--for the second week. If we had known that ahead of time we would have stopped at our alternate source yesterday when we visited my brother and sister-in-law. But the unexpected excursion gave us a chance to check out a farm store we have been talking about visiting. They advertise fresh eggs, milk, cheese and other locally produced products. It is a nice little store and we will probably be going back.
Mom keeps saying that politics is the best comedy show going. I would agree with her if the clowns didn't have the power to mess up our lives "bigly." Unfortunately, the top clown is incredibly clueless. Here speaks a man who hasn't had to buy his own groceries himself ever. After we stopped laughing we tried to think of the last time we needed a photo ID to buy food. We bought food at two places yesterday where we either haven't shopped before or rarely shop. Guess what--no ID required. The last time was several years ago when we purchased wine and beer and the cashier didn't know us. It is at least a dozen years since I had to show ID to pay by check. At least the media isn't giving him the same pass on idiocy they did during the election and his early days in office.
Thursday August 2
Making some progress with a couple of needlework projects. Finished the crochet trim on the table scarf I finished a couple of weeks ago. Have almost finished the embroidery on another and the blanket is almost finished. I also have another project pulled out of storage which will be a Christmas table scarf. I am still in the process of sorting and arranging things in the what-not room.
Cut some rosemary and catnip to soak in vodka for a while. Should finish the thyme and cut some more herbs for drying.
Found a nice lot of strawberries. Kept the best for a yogurt snack tonight. The rest are drying along with pineapple sage, spearmint, and lemon verbena.
Good post at Tomdispatch today.
John Beckett has a good post today. I read the article he refers to a couple of weeks ago. A couple of things about the article hit me. One, the sense of entitlement exhibited is mind blowing as though, somehow, money exempts the owner of that money from human made catastrophe. Second, that all that money makes them better than those with less money. If these guys are Christian they have neglected Christ's answer to the rich man who asked what he had to do to be saved. Third, they haven't learned the lesson the brighter members of the prepper community preach: survival requires a community because you can't do everything alone. And, if you are relying on bought loyalty it may not last long if things go really bad.
Friday August 3
Sunny now and all of the rain went south of us. I will have to water everything. I have the dried herbs to finish processing and several I should cut to put in the dehydrator. We found a real nice lavender/spearmint tea that I can make from what I grow adding only the green tea I don't grow. I started the edging on my crochet blanket so that is nearing completion.
Saturday August 4
Yesterday turned into a lazy day. Watered the gardens but didn't harvest anything. Will have to get things done early today because we expect temps in the mid 90s with heat index breaking 100.
Found this post at Gods and Radicals which pretty well sums up the problem with our environmental debates.
Finished the crochet blanket. It is now on my bed. The ottoman in which I keep current crochet projects is pretty empty now. I won't say I will never do another large project but I don't have much incentive to start another one. And I do have one still working--a stash buster Catherine wheel lap blanket.
I got everything watered but it was already heating up so didn't do anything else.
We keep hearing from the economic/political cheerleaders that the economy is roaring along nicely. Why do I keep reading stories like this one? Which do we need more: infrastructure that moves the economy or #45's Wall?
Ugo Bardi has a good piece on how and why "climate change" may fall off the public radar.
Tuesday July 31
Wednesday August 1
Welcome to August. The year is certainly going by rapidly. We were busy yesterday finishing the shopping we didn't get done Monday. The local store which has carried the yogurt we like didn't have it in stock--for the second week. If we had known that ahead of time we would have stopped at our alternate source yesterday when we visited my brother and sister-in-law. But the unexpected excursion gave us a chance to check out a farm store we have been talking about visiting. They advertise fresh eggs, milk, cheese and other locally produced products. It is a nice little store and we will probably be going back.
Mom keeps saying that politics is the best comedy show going. I would agree with her if the clowns didn't have the power to mess up our lives "bigly." Unfortunately, the top clown is incredibly clueless. Here speaks a man who hasn't had to buy his own groceries himself ever. After we stopped laughing we tried to think of the last time we needed a photo ID to buy food. We bought food at two places yesterday where we either haven't shopped before or rarely shop. Guess what--no ID required. The last time was several years ago when we purchased wine and beer and the cashier didn't know us. It is at least a dozen years since I had to show ID to pay by check. At least the media isn't giving him the same pass on idiocy they did during the election and his early days in office.
Thursday August 2
Making some progress with a couple of needlework projects. Finished the crochet trim on the table scarf I finished a couple of weeks ago. Have almost finished the embroidery on another and the blanket is almost finished. I also have another project pulled out of storage which will be a Christmas table scarf. I am still in the process of sorting and arranging things in the what-not room.
Cut some rosemary and catnip to soak in vodka for a while. Should finish the thyme and cut some more herbs for drying.
Found a nice lot of strawberries. Kept the best for a yogurt snack tonight. The rest are drying along with pineapple sage, spearmint, and lemon verbena.
Good post at Tomdispatch today.
John Beckett has a good post today. I read the article he refers to a couple of weeks ago. A couple of things about the article hit me. One, the sense of entitlement exhibited is mind blowing as though, somehow, money exempts the owner of that money from human made catastrophe. Second, that all that money makes them better than those with less money. If these guys are Christian they have neglected Christ's answer to the rich man who asked what he had to do to be saved. Third, they haven't learned the lesson the brighter members of the prepper community preach: survival requires a community because you can't do everything alone. And, if you are relying on bought loyalty it may not last long if things go really bad.
Friday August 3
Sunny now and all of the rain went south of us. I will have to water everything. I have the dried herbs to finish processing and several I should cut to put in the dehydrator. We found a real nice lavender/spearmint tea that I can make from what I grow adding only the green tea I don't grow. I started the edging on my crochet blanket so that is nearing completion.
Saturday August 4
Yesterday turned into a lazy day. Watered the gardens but didn't harvest anything. Will have to get things done early today because we expect temps in the mid 90s with heat index breaking 100.
Found this post at Gods and Radicals which pretty well sums up the problem with our environmental debates.
Finished the crochet blanket. It is now on my bed. The ottoman in which I keep current crochet projects is pretty empty now. I won't say I will never do another large project but I don't have much incentive to start another one. And I do have one still working--a stash buster Catherine wheel lap blanket.
I got everything watered but it was already heating up so didn't do anything else.
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