Peak temperatures have been lower than expected. We topped out at 83 today vs. an expected high of about 90. We typically run 2 degrees F lower than the City of Eaton Rapids (chortle, city!) and 5-to-10 degrees below Lansing.
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| The dog-days of summer arrived a little bit early |
The highest heat-index that I experienced while involved in prolonged, physical effort was a heat-index of 97. OK, I can hear the readers from Texas and Louisiana snorting in laughter. In my defense I was walking from Eaton Rapids to Indiana and knocked out 25 miles the first day and 26 the second. That was in July of 2018. So while the heat-index was not that impressive, the fact that I was out in it, walking for ten hours counts for something.
Garden
The tomatoes and cucumbers really like the heat.
Pleasant surprises
I got a text from my youngest brother who had started his new job a month ago. Today was the first day he was not scheduled to work. "Do you want to have lunch?" he asked.
His first free day in a month and he wants to eat lunch with me? Hell ya!
We ate at C&R Homestyle Cafe and our bill came to $22 (including drinks).
After lunch, we went out to the property I am managing and we took very dead woodchucks out of Conibear traps. Then we extended the height of the welded-wire mesh deer protection on some young orchard trees from 48" in height to 66" in height. We enhanced the protection of 11 young apple trees.
Once that stopped being fun, we drove over to where Shotgun was fishing and drank a beer or two, told a few lies and ate Shotgun's pretzels. Being a jerk, I caught the only fish, a 10" bullhead.
For the record, I used a strip of sunfish that I soaked in soy-sauce. To a fish in fresh-water, Salt + Protein = Edible. I think you could catch fish with the tongue of an old sneaker if you soaked it in soy-sauce.
Tomorrow's plans
God willing, I will run a mile and then brag about it.
I will plant some cabbage seedlings.
I will roto-till the corn-patch
My garden is doing terrible again this year, and I've done almost no weeding. Think it's related?
ReplyDeleteI did try that 30% vinegar weed killer in there.... It killed the stuff. We'll see if it can save some of the harvest.
You're a good man keeping the dog pen cool with a fan. A bit of shade would have been nice.
ReplyDeleteI often judge a man by how he treats a dog and how my dog reacts around him.
Proverbs 12:
Loving Discipline and Knowledge
…9Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food. 10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty. 11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.…
Standard warning about hydrating in the heat. Lots of people forget.
ReplyDeletePrepping for a 5K this Saturday and I am trying to get out and do at least 1.5 miles a day.
ReplyDeleteBeen pretty darn hot here too !!!!
Congratulations and God bless.
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