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Sunday, July 21, 2019

Cool of the evening

The wind is blowing-- cool air comes down out of the mountains, night comes over the sky filled with clouds. Summer heat flees on the wind, last of the summer darkens with the end of the day. Curtains billow like sails out into the air and in again, floating on the wind on its changes. I turn off the fans, false winds, open all the windows, all the doors and let in the airs of change. Sept 2013 Sign in to see full entry.

out of the archives...

Heat of the Day The sun glares down on white concrete that once warmed, now stings little bare feet. Upon the couch, or floor or chair or... really, anywhere a cat can go, limbs akimbo, bellyfur exposed, she stretches out long as cat can be, cat-naps away the heat of the day. Sign in to see full entry.

It's cool, man...

It is a lovely morning, and the forecast for both thunderstorms and overall cooler temps is encouraging. I am hoping this trend sweeps eastward and brings relief across the midwest, all the way to the coast. I never loved the tropical summers of the east coast where I grew up. I hated the oppressive humidity even more than the heat. The only times of day that were bearable were early morning and night, unless a storm swept away the heat. I have always loved those storms. Sitting here with... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Relief!

Heavy rains, thunder and lightning, hail... and so the heat has broken and the whisper of the a/c has ceased for now. Now, nearing sunset, there is a strange golden light filling the air. The sun is lowering, limning the hem of the cloud cover, and on the other side of the sky, it is steel grey, storm-heavy... Got a few shots before the battery died: https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/58MX45 There was also a flash flood warning broadcast to phones throughout the land, so on the way home... Sign in to see full entry.

telling tales...

Kabu mentions how Wiley likes to hear her stories of her growing up, and that made me think of what stories I might tell. There was the mouse-hunt in the barn, when I was 4 or 5. We loved playing in the hay barn, jumping from the loft down into the big loose haystack beneath. I spotted a mouse up in the loft one day, and decided I would catch it, but of course, I kept missing the scampering little guy. Finally, I jumped for it and went right over the edge to the loose hay below. I complained to... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 19, 2019

In the cool of the day...

It is not quite 7am here, and I have been up for a couple of hours. It is cool out, temps moving up towards the 70s. By the time it gets to the 80s, I will be done with getting much done. I don't function well in heat. It will be near 100 F this afternoon, and the new a/c unit will keep it to around 80 indoors. Anyway, this is why I like waking early this time of year. This is the only time of day to do any oven stuff. So this morning I got busy right off, cutting up some carrots and cauliflower... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

To all the folks...

So, tomorrow is forecast to be HOT! And it will get hotter through the weekend. It will be a good day to stay in some a/c with an endless ice-water, maybe with some lemon in it... I'm thinking of you, Pat, and Taps, and FSI, and everyone else being swept along on the same wave. The map I see is only the eastern and midwestern US, but I don't imagine Canada is really being spared. It will be hot here, but we are only at the edge of it, and I am also thinking it might be a nice day to go up into... Sign in to see full entry.

more photos

Back to a normal, or at least my usual state of mind... Got some gardening done today, replacing a few things that suffered heat exhaustion in a matter of days. The old bird feeder got refilled and re-hung over the back porch. There was a really unusual rainbow yesterday evening, not only double, but the lower and brighter arc also had a second echo. I was driving when we first saw it, and there were two distinct bands, red through violet. By the time I got home to the camera, it was still... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Looking back...

I have been mining my blogs here for material to add to the new public blog, and so went back to the very first posts of this very journal blog. So many things, so many moments are there, with the immediacy of the just-written, and the nostalgia of the times before I knew what would come after. It began in 2007-8, this blog. It all started with Inchland, almost 200 pages ago, when the photos were posted on the page, not linked to elsewhere. Kabu, I think you would particularly enjoy a visit to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Disappointments and substitutions

It has been an interesting and brief sojourn in NYC. The tickets for the NatGeo oceans thing were purchased for June instead of July, and we didn't get word we could use them anyway until we got back from the American Museum of Natural History where we went instead. This was okay, to see Elsa enraptured by the diaramas and the special T Rex exhibit, to watch her discover the wonders I grew up with. She will be 3 in December, and was so much fun to watch,and share it all with. We covered a lot of... Sign in to see full entry.

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