Here
we are again…another heat wave. In the northeast, it takes three days of 90° or
more to constitute a heat wave. Today is day four and should be the last for
several days. The humidity is expected to continue. As grateful as I am for the
portable air conditioner I have in my bedroom, I really look forward to being
able to sleep with my windows open.
You
might have heard the saying, “it’s not the heat it’s the humidity!” That is the
truth. When the dew point is in the 70s day and night after day and night one’s
store of good humor begins to get shabby around the edges.
If I
need to go out, I make sure it’s early in the morning before things get too
hot. This morning, I went out in the little garden at the back
of my condo to weed as much as I could before the heat set in. First I put on a
long sleeved shirt that I had treated with bug spray, then sprayed my shorts
and legs. Having done that I set about to try to figure out what was a weed and
what was not. There are a couple of things growing out there that I know are
weeds, but it looks like they will flower. I’m not picky about where my flowers
come from. If that weed wants to flower, I’ll be the first one out there
admiring it!
It
doesn’t look like my morning glories will blossom. Maybe it’s because I planted
them on the back side of the condo where they don’t get sun until 11 o’clock or so.
Next year I will plant them out front and plant from seeds…not wait
until the plants are ready in the garden shop.
I
have 15 tomatoes of varying sizes. When they first appeared, they grew quite
rapidly and then they seemed to stop. I’m just hoping they will ripen. Right
now the biggest one is about the size of a plum and they go down to grape size
from there. I was hoping to have so many ripen at one time I would have to
freeze what I couldn’t use right away. Not sure that is going to be a concern.
But
it is July after all. And this July is so very different from last July and I’m
sure next July will be different, too. It is quite possible that the jet stream
will do something different in the next few days and the northeast could be
switched to a cool and comfortable rest-of-the-summer. Please, God!
