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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
these days (updated with today's EVEN MORE APPALLING forecast)
First, a little visual:
Was it not a month ago that "63 to 73" was the (granted, quite unseasonable) range for HIGH temperatures? WHO ON EARTH SAID THIS COULD HAPPEN? I wanna know.
Oh yeah. God. Sorry, God. But WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS??
Here's a concrete example of the way this heat affects me: Today I took the kids to a friend's place to swim in their swimming hole (we's country kids. we ain't got no swimmin' pools), and I forgot my camera. I haven't gone out without that camera more than five times since I got it. I take the camera to the grocery store (I lock it in the trunk while I shop, but you never know, I might see something vaguely photographable on the quarter-mile trip there or back). But I forgot to take it today, and not only were the kids eminently photogenic today, but there was a waterfall. And you know (oh, man, I'm sorry for how WELL you know) how I am about waterfall pictures.
And also, I just wanted to tell you that between my two kids and myself, we managed to eat an entire blackberry pie today, except for one piece which I'm sure will be gone by the time we go to bed tonight. Maybe that whole idyllic family-picking-blackberries-Mom-baking-with-them thing wasn't such a good idea.
Poor pie. Your days were numbered. Little did you know HOW numbered.
(I did make a really good sugar-free, whole-grain blackberry cobbler as well. The kids and T ate that one last night.)
Yesterday evening we saw a really cool thing. [Cue Wild Kingdom theme music]. We were out for our berry-picking walk and as we were going across the creek near the abandoned beaver dam, we saw two new beavers swimming around scoping out the place. So hopefully I'll be able to actually get some pictures of them before they re-abandon the place. The ones I tried last night could just as well have been pictures of Bigfoot, thanks to the dim light and my lack of a tripod. This evening (as soon as it cools down to, oh, say, NINETY FIVE DEGREES outside) I'll try again, and be better prepared.
Meanwhile I think I'll just go climb into the freezer for a while.
Comments
Holy COW!!! My gosh, we were just complaining around here because the temp topped 97!! Guess I'll shut up now..... :)
Posted by: Susan at July 14, 2005 05:59 AM
Yeah, but it's a DRY HEAT. Just kidding. We've had highs in the 90s for 8 days straight and have been complaining about that. I guess it's all about perspective. ;) Hang in there and eat lots of blackberries.
Posted by: mary at July 14, 2005 06:23 AM
I went rowing this morning. 95 degrees at 5 AM. Feh.
Posted by: dichroic at July 14, 2005 09:07 AM
I know exactly how you feel about forgetting your cameral. It's like forgetting to put on deoderant. It just doesn't work. I woke up today freezing because someone forgot to turn the AC off before we went to sleep (Who me? Nah, I don't forget stuff, never). So I got up, ran, turned it off and burrowed beneath a blanket and a sheet. When it was time to actually rise for the day, I was covered in sweat from head to toe, ACK. This concrete jungle just sucks the heat in and then radiates it back to you as if you were in an oven. I so need to go to the beach, I take it for granted so much that it is like a twenty minute drive away.
Posted by: jenn at July 14, 2005 01:51 PM
By the way that pie looks SO GOOD. I want to EAT IT.
Posted by: jenn at July 14, 2005 01:52 PM
ACK! Every time I watch the weather, the numbers keep getting higher and higher! I now see 108s coming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's time to run far away!
Posted by: debi at July 15, 2005 07:53 AM
That pie looks migh-tee FINE and I have no more to say.
Posted by: Kristen at July 21, 2005 05:25 PM
