The heat wave has arrived. We hit a high of 93°F and yet another day of no garden work done. Weeds prevail. It would have been a good year to invest in a solar oven (in my best sarcastic but realistic voice, lol!)
Too hot to enjoy one bit of porch time, but we all knew it was coming with the massive spring rains we got.
Hubby sleeps all day, so indoor work has to be at a minimum as to where it won't wake him up - no vacuuming, loud anything. I managed to wash 3 blankets and got them on the clothesline early. I also made a cold healthy treat for him in case he didn't feel like eating dinner on during this very hot week - homemade hummus and organic celery sticks.
I went outside very early to tend the chickens, pick plantain, picked radishes, water the half dead flowers (veggie garden looked okay), in preparations for possible afternoon/evening thunderstorms.
We got a downpour about 3pm. Thankful for that. Except that I forgot I had blankets drying on the clothesline at the time. Ugh. A horrible storm went through my hometown and took down trees and power lines. Thankful all is okay and thankful it wasn't that bad out here.
A second storm came through and took down trees south of us about 4 hours later.
Was disappointed to find out I cannot harvest my feverfew until the 2nd year of of growth. Sigh. As for Arnica? It's my 3rd attempt at growing it from seed, and it just doesn't like our weather. Double sigh.
Although I didn't want to cook, I put chicken in the crock pot, and made radish hashbrowns.
Although I'm tired of weeding, milkweed randomly growing in the flower bed has killed off my poison ivy.
Too hot to enjoy one bit of porch time, but we all knew it was coming with the massive spring rains we got.
Hubby sleeps all day, so indoor work has to be at a minimum as to where it won't wake him up - no vacuuming, loud anything. I managed to wash 3 blankets and got them on the clothesline early. I also made a cold healthy treat for him in case he didn't feel like eating dinner on during this very hot week - homemade hummus and organic celery sticks.
I went outside very early to tend the chickens, pick plantain, picked radishes, water the half dead flowers (veggie garden looked okay), in preparations for possible afternoon/evening thunderstorms.
We got a downpour about 3pm. Thankful for that. Except that I forgot I had blankets drying on the clothesline at the time. Ugh. A horrible storm went through my hometown and took down trees and power lines. Thankful all is okay and thankful it wasn't that bad out here.
A second storm came through and took down trees south of us about 4 hours later.
Was disappointed to find out I cannot harvest my feverfew until the 2nd year of of growth. Sigh. As for Arnica? It's my 3rd attempt at growing it from seed, and it just doesn't like our weather. Double sigh.
Although I didn't want to cook, I put chicken in the crock pot, and made radish hashbrowns.
Although I'm tired of weeding, milkweed randomly growing in the flower bed has killed off my poison ivy.
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