avoiding the heat
Jun. 24th, 2020 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaIt is hot this week. Even in the north, and I am so grateful that the people who built this house put in a basement. I have spent my day working downstairs (having re-located my work computer yesterday, when I noticed that I wasn't accomplishing anything due to the heat). It is so delightful cool down here that it was necessary to wear a light sweater, or I would get too cold. I just needed to remember to take it off again each time I ventured upstairs in search of food.
But now that it is evening, outside has cooled down to 19 C (I didn't notice myself how hot it reached, but J tells me that it was 29 C at work), so I have opened up some upstairs windows to air it out up there, so it doesn't get any worse tomorrow. Looking at the forecast, I should be able to resume working upstairs again next week.
The garden, on the other hand, seems quite happy with the sun and warmth (since I am getting it water regularly). Today Some of the various garden greens that I planted have finally gotten big enough to spare a leaf or two, so I gathered up a handful for lunch. Since it is too warm upstairs to actually cook I put some cous cous in the microwave with some water I saved after steaming vegetables the other day (and some garlic powder, salt and pepper), and when the water was warm added the greens for another minute, and then stirred in an egg and gave it another minute to cook the egg, then added some toasted sunflower seeds, and made it back downstairs before I felt too hot. No photo--it disappeared far too quickly to have thought of that, and the result wasn't exactly as pretty as it tasted. I also noticed that the first of this year's smultron (wild strawberry) are nearly ripe (I would guess tomorrow), and the strawberries have forgiven me enough for their transplanting ordeal that they have been flowering and putting out little green things that will become berries in due course.
But now that it is evening, outside has cooled down to 19 C (I didn't notice myself how hot it reached, but J tells me that it was 29 C at work), so I have opened up some upstairs windows to air it out up there, so it doesn't get any worse tomorrow. Looking at the forecast, I should be able to resume working upstairs again next week.
The garden, on the other hand, seems quite happy with the sun and warmth (since I am getting it water regularly). Today Some of the various garden greens that I planted have finally gotten big enough to spare a leaf or two, so I gathered up a handful for lunch. Since it is too warm upstairs to actually cook I put some cous cous in the microwave with some water I saved after steaming vegetables the other day (and some garlic powder, salt and pepper), and when the water was warm added the greens for another minute, and then stirred in an egg and gave it another minute to cook the egg, then added some toasted sunflower seeds, and made it back downstairs before I felt too hot. No photo--it disappeared far too quickly to have thought of that, and the result wasn't exactly as pretty as it tasted. I also noticed that the first of this year's smultron (wild strawberry) are nearly ripe (I would guess tomorrow), and the strawberries have forgiven me enough for their transplanting ordeal that they have been flowering and putting out little green things that will become berries in due course.