Good morning all! It's still morning cool, but the forecast is for three digits for a few days. Uh, at least it's the drier heat?! Which means fire weather watch time. In fact, there was one locally, on an island in the Columbia River, yesterday that cancelled our afternoon walk. Well, the heat will do that today.
The leg is better, but there's still that bruised feeling that comes later and the weakness that lets me know how long it's been since I used it normally. But at least I'm not moving like a weeble any more! That of course, makes me wonder how people can stand moving like that all the time. It hurts, it messes up all sorts of other spots in the body as one compensates for the discomfort. So how on earth can they accept that as normal, especially as dropping that excess weight would remove the stress on the joints. Sigh, I know, rhetorical question, that's how it is, it's a normal part of aging.
I will walk myself strong again.
I got a clean bill of health from the cataract surgeon's office, glasses appointment is scheduled for this week, yay!
Sue, potato blight, as in the fungus that was responsible for the Irish Potato Famine, that one? Total bummer! Were you able to salvage any of the crop at all? Most of our flower pots have what I think is a type of powdery mildew. I've only ever dealt with that on a lilac bush, and it was cosmetic. This seems to be compromising the plants. I've cut them back severely to see if that can help. Sadly, the tomato plants are also infected. So I fear that will be a race between the fungus and the crop. Poop.
In this heat one gravitates toward meals that put the most minimum of heat in the kitchen. For us that means "picnic" foods, lots of cold salad dishes. I tend to think of them in three parts, top, middle, and bottom. Top is beans and lentils, like three bean salds for example. Sometimes that's as simple as a can of Bush's vegetarian baked beans. Middle is the veggie salads, slaws, tabbouli, fattoush, etc. Bottoms is the starch, potato salad, rice salad, etc. Today I'm going to try a new middle dish that has been floating around in my head, red slaw. I have a lovely red cabbage, red beets, red radishes, honeycrisp apples, and raspberries. So I'll have to see how this experiment works out. The potatoes are in the Instant Pot, oh, what a wonderful thing to have discovered when wanting to make potato salads!
We had a hummingbird party in our back yard the other day. In Ohio there was a female ruby throated hummer that annually came to the hanging fuschia pots. But you'd only hear her when she flew past your head, never any vocalizations. Here though, there is abundant chittering, delightful! We had the sliding glass door open and wow, a chitterfest! We counted four of them, all in the cherry tree. On a side note, I have to look up how to reconfigure my binoculars for no glasses. Anyways, I saw one very clearly, it was quite fluffy, so I wondered if what we saw and heard was the little ones fledging. Haven't seen or heard that since, although we still see one come to the hanging fuschia pot.
Okay, time to get moving. Have a good week all.