WTF Weather

No, seriously, it’s 86 degrees outside today. Leaving the AC off because, welp, it’ll be 60 degrees tonight, so as long as I open the windows at sunset and close them before 9Am it stays nice and cool inside…

But anyway, the heat and drought are playing merry hell with my plans to finish the back wilderness trench. The clay soil isn’t too hard to dig, since it’s actually dry enough that it breaks apart, but it’s too damned hot to be shoveling for long. So I do a couple of scoops at a time every couple of days.

I did laundry today instead. Not all the laundry. I’ll save the “sheets and towels” loads for after the weekend with family. There are lots of ways to measure prosperity. One of mine is “Throw one batch of towels and sheets into the wash and still have clean sheets on my beds and clean towels in the bathroom.” I spent many years owning only two sets of sheets and two sets of towels, and it was fine. But now it really feels decadent to have EXTRA.

Anyway. That’s been it for Useful Work. Hummingbirds got fresh sugar water yesterday, and plants will get watered tomorrow AM. Tomorrow is also shopping day. (sigh) Pantry restock needs doing, and I’m also low on milk. So. Away I shall go to All The Stores. Or at least Costco and the Big Fancy Jewel that still carries Alternative Proteins.

But tonight it’s Swapped Shift time at the library for me, followed by some tasty rice bake. in front of Black Sails. And hopefully more & better sleep than I got last night. Weird deliberately disturbing movie was weird and disturbing.

That’s it for now.