(Still) Hot, Hot, Hot!

Broke the 90 degree barrier at the Aerie today. Just a little but that's enough. It was hotter elsewhere in the region. One report I saw said 95 over in Elmira, NY. Might have been higher. A short period of cloudiness between 1 and 3 o'clock this afternoon kept it a wee bit cooler.

This heat wave just saps all your energy and desire to go outside and do any work. I've got firewood to stack and some more to cut and transport down from the hillside. And Accuhunch is saying it's likely we'll be having highs around the 90 degree mark right through next Tuesday. Could be worse. Lots of places seeing the century mark on their thermometers.

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Terry helped load the loveseat, chair and ottoman into the truck this morning and then we went over to the dump to get rid of them. Slowly getting control of space and "stuff" issues. Funny how solving one solves the other.

We picked some string beans this afternoon. After a single day of NOT picking, we got quite a few. I pulled a couple of onions that had gone to the dead-head stage of their life. Two were rotten, but the other four, while not terribly large, were sound enough to keep. Also got some cucumbers and three nice sized zucchini. (There are going to be three or four more zukes ready for picking in the near future.) If it weren't so darn hot, Terry would be baking more zucchini bread for the freezer. As it is, she says she'll shred a bunch up and freeze that in packages that can then be pulled out for baking a batch of bread when it's cooler.

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Took delivery of our new cocktail table late this afternoon. With the gateway legs and folding top, it opens up to a huge surface area suitable for jigsaw puzzles or an impromptu sit-on-the-floor dinner for four. Looks as nice in front of our (new) couch and fireplace as it did in the store.