Re: Hot and dark

Pruning shears? My DH uses a chain saw!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> I'm sitting here in the dark - well, not entirely, I have a pretty big
> window - because southern California is supposed to be in this big  
> power
> emergency due to the heat, and we've been asked to turn off everything
> we can. So we've turned off all the lights on this floor since there's
> just enough natural light to work with. We couldn't POSSIBLY turn off
> the computers you know, and it would be defeating the purpose to  
> send us
> home - everyone would go turn on their air conditioning. We're working
> in dimness (no cracks about government workers please :-) and no doubt
> they'll turn off the A/C too.
> It's just weird. It's going to be over 100 today, it was hot  
> yesterday,
> but it's a bit overcast and we are also blanketed in smoke from the  
> Zaca
> fire, 100 miles to the west. I can't smell it but I can feel it when I
> breathe, I don't want to take in a deep breath and I'm getting some
> sinus headache.  It's really hazy, visibility is less than a mile, and
> brownish. The sunrise this morning was this blood-red disc, very eerie
> looking.
> My sister called yesterday with more bad news. Their ancient labrador
> died. I think maybe my late brother-in-law called her to come, you  
> know?
> Well, more sadness, but my sister wasn't too upset - Missy was really
> old and they'd been thinking she was on borrowed time for the last  
> year.
> She tells me, you know things come in threes, you should be careful. I
> had to laugh. Years back the two of us went through a period where
> relatives dropped like flies, we lost about 5 of them in one year
> including our mother, and we dealt with it by making a lot of death
> jokes. It's all coming back to me now...but that's okay.
> Yesterday I turned in my preserved foods entries for the fair. Imagine
> my indignation when the woman in front of me also entered
> peach-raspberry jam. What nerve! Ah well, just have to wait and see  
> how
> I do. I sure didn't have as many entries this year.  I am thinking I
> might be able to stay out of the kitchen this weekend and work on the
> garden instead. My husband is saying he wants to work on the dry  
> garden,
> I have to be out there to stop him from pruning things. When I think
> what he did to my poor mahonias in the tea garden...non-gardeners  
> should
> not be allowed to use pruning shears.
>
> Cyndi
>
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