These Dreams

Blessings Darlings!

Oh, what a dream last night!  I was YOUNG again - middle school - and got my period.  But my mind and attitude were in my current settings.  I was writing revolutionary stuff on the walls of bathrooms with it.  Then segued into high school, driving with friends, and listening to CSN both for the amazing harmonies and for inspiration for continued political action.

So I give you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2PH-prm8M4 
It's not that we don't know.  It's just that we don't want to care.

Worked in garden.  My back hurts, and I'm unhappy.  Tomorrow's going to have a heat advisory, and I told my back that I should get back in the garden this evening, and it cursed me out and refused to cooperate.

Frondly, Fern

What's Up In YOUR Land Base?

Blessings Darlings!

 

Here in my land base, the fireflies are long gone. Night are LOUD now, with cicadas and crickets having meet and greets. I can count on seeing some shooting stars every night that is clear enough ... but I can also count on late day thunderstorms often enough that at least half the nights aren't clear enough.

And it is so very much butterfly and moth season! Monarch and swallowtail, lovely moths I don't know the name of, and the ubiquitous cabbage moths are everywhere.   Night features other moths, plus visiting bats (I'm guessing that they share barn space with the barn swallows).

The local peaches are ripe - and a local church is having their Peach Festival tomorrow.  My tomatoes are nowhere near ripe since I planted them late, but the cucs and peppers and occasional zucchini (I only started one plant) are producing.

The rivers are high due to all the rain over the past month.  Water practically pours out of cracks in the cliffs of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  The humidity is high.  Every day the forecast is "Today will be much cooler than yesterday was," but that's just wishful thinking.  The temperature has been pretty constant.  

This is when county fairs should be.  Before school starts, in the gap between when farmers harvest stuff.  Everyone should be eating funnel cakes with diced fresh peaches and powdered sugar.

Frondly, Fern

Heat Wave

Blessings Darlings!

Summer is surely here.  It is 105 degrees out right now, and will be about 100 for the next two days as well.  I'm grateful that my office is in the cool basement, and that I have a fan to handle the stuffiness from the humidity.

As a result of the high temperatures I'm NOT getting on any of the bicycles, road or stationary.  Yes, I should, but I'm not.  I'm being almost totally lazy.  What I AM doing are the upper body weights and I've added ... standing.  For at least 5 minutes out of every hour of the day, if I'm at my computer at all in that hour, I am standing while reading/typing.

I'm standing right now as I blog this, in fact.

It's not going to be a substitute for exercise, I know that.  It simply gets me off my pasty white ass for  5 minutes an hour every day.  Today, since I've been at the computer for at least 15 minutes every hour since I set this goal, I'm going to be at 20 minutes of extra standing by the time I finish this blog post.  I might even get another 30 minutes of standing in today, depending on how much time I spend by the computer here in the basement hiding from the heat.  Since the house is already clean, and I only have laundry on the line to deal with (the Spawn is bringing home pizza for dinner), I could easily spend most of the next 6 hours down here,  Heck, I might even sleep down here, which at least doesn't involve the computer so I won't be standing 5 minutes out of every hour all night long.

Oh, that pizza the Spawn is bringing home:  Spawn reads Sunday newspaper ads.  Pizza Hut is now offering a Garlic Bread Pizza.  Spawn is a garlic addict - when he makes garlic bread it can blow your head off.  So he's picking THAT up for us to try for dinner.  It should be interesting.

Winter is Cold

Blessings, Darlings!

It's January.  It is Winter.  It is COLD OUT. 

The last two nights the temperature has dropped to 12 degrees F.  Certainly colder than THIS witch's tits! 

Since I only run the heat a few hours morning and evening to conserve energy and resources (including money!), the house can get a bit ... nippy. Even when the heat is on, I keep the thermostats no warmer than 66 degrees.  I have taken to wearing my 'lighter' winter coat in the house, and am actually wearing shoes.  Hot flashes are now welcome.

How are things in your neck of the woods?

Frondly, Fern