Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Getting to be time for fresh blueberries...























Even since I set this to post a few days ago, our berries have begun to ripen! This heat has them coming due 3-4 weeks early!

16 comments:

  1. Howard Dean is the first blue berry of the bunch!

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  2. Well, listener, that would involve some pretty fancy footwork with temporal relastatics, and I don't think our physics community is quite there yet. 8)



    Well, Cat, I was quoting from the writings of Lucy Maud Montgomery. And somewhere earlier today I was reading that all our decisions need not come from reasoning out with pros and cons lists, but to trust the way your gut feels about a thing. I guess in this instance, which is different but similar, I'll claim poetic license. LOL!

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  3. puddle....I can't believe we had 6 degrees hotter than you! (And no air conditioning.) Tell you what...send me some of your AC an I'll send you some spring water!

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  4. Just a tiny little window unit. Most years it never gets turned on at all. But it dries things out, which helps.

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  5. Saw my first three storey Poinsettia there, growing at one end of a guest house. A tree. Amazing.

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  6. So, my info tells me it's 65.3 at your house now, puddle...and 74.5 here still. Gonna be hard to go upstairs and sleep. Given the extra showers to cool off and the extra trips to the refrigerator, I can't help but wonder if a little AC might be better for the planet.

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  7. And the bluest.

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  8. listener, I was being flippant, referring somewhat loosely to a passage in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. So, I guess we're more or less even.

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  9. Official high on Monday of 97, with 100 in some places. Sis said 100 is forecast for Tuesday and high 90s for the rest of the week. Thank God for AC! Even a less than optimal unit is *much* better than nothing!

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  10. Oh, my, missing post. Just got eaten. About Kunming. Being 70º year round. Winter, spring, summer, fall.

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  11. 90º again. Though higher in town. Jeepers.

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  12. It was sunny and 93 on my way to work today. Supposed to be warmer tomorrow!

    Last night, we went upstairs to go to sleep and it was 81 in the bedroom as we went to sleep and 83 in there as we woke up.

    And it's humid into the bargain! Whoo! Dew point of 74 and heat index of 104!

    This is supposed to be NW Vermont, not Florida!

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  13. I had a hard time sleeping in DC because his a/c was set to 76º ~~ it was cooler *outside*. . . . I simply don't handle heat as well as I used to.

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  14. Yeah, puddle, I hear you.

    It's like that at the Library until it gets really hot outside, then it's good inside.
    But until it's a lot hotter outside than inside the AC doesn't come on.
    It can be hard on the person lugging and shelving books.

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  15. Bill Thomasson7/06/2010 10:47:00 PM

    Got back from Pasadena last night. Still in catch-up mode -- haven't written a lick of salt, although I plan to before I go to bed.

    Huge contrast in the weather. Pasadena was 70s, sunny, and pleasant. Today in Oak Park it was 88 with terrible humidity. Still 75 even after the rain. Undoubtedly hotter in my office, with all the heat-generating equipment. Really wish there were some way to get the air conditioner installed. Or at least some place to move it so I could use the window fan. Oh, well, less than two months until it's springtime in Australia.

    I really enjoyed Pasadena. Spent most of the convention sitting at a table talking to people about the Chicago 2012 Worldcon. Or waiting to do so. I was also on two panels, both of which went well. At one the other panelist had apparently cancelled out, but I had a great audience who picked up the ball.

    Went out to eat each evening. Mostly very good food, especially at a place called the Equator Cafe, where I went twice. This featured what's called "California cuisine" -- Asian-influenced American (or, if you prefer, American-influenced Asian). I largely skipped lunch after one of these big hotel breakfasts but still managed to gain a couple of pounds.

    And speaking of air conditioning, the hotel had it set for 68. I find that too cold even with a heavy shirt. I turned it up to 73, and that was comfortable.

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