Dayam!  It is HOT.  My thermometer read 102 a while ago.  Yeesh.
Anyway, I decided that it is possible that I sounded a bit whiney in my last post.  Possibly.
So, I decided to brave the heat and go look for some encouraging scenes.  Submitted for your/my enjoyment:
I wanted to take a picture of the peaches that [...]

 

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One more trip around the sun.
You might imagine that I don’t have any pictures of that.
As for the topic of this blog… I haven’t posted much this summer because it’s been oddly unsatisfying out there this year.  It is August 15th, and I have yet to harvest a ripe tomato– with the exception of some [...]

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Sometimes, I think I do vermicomposting (worms eating my garbage) just because it’s entertaining, though it makes excellent compost and tea for the garden. I don’t think that vermicomposting can process nearly the amount of organic waste that a decently cranking compost pile can.  It also implies a certain amount of fiddling that just piling [...]

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I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]

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I do go off on tangents sometimes, eh?
Let us cleanse our palates with some nice normal stuff:
Wormcake.  I was worried that they’d all fried in the recent heat.  Nope.  Quite happy living in their own filth and eating my garbage.  THANKS, GUYGALS!
I was reading this blog the other day, and it inspired me to get [...]

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