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Ok, so if a few readers happen to be a bit chilled because you live on the Pacific Coast, especially if you're lucky enough to live on the coast in Oregon, let me try to warm you up. Or at least make you appreciate the chill. Since about noon the temperature has been 100F (and rising to 106 for today).
I like to get up early and enjoy what coolness there is in the mornings, so I went to the gym and to the chiropractor this morning. Since I've been back I've thought about going to Costco and Home Depot, and even gathered up my phone, keys, and purse several times. Then I think of the awful heat out there and come back and sit down in the flow of air from my swamp cooler.
This is terrible because I'm out of ice cream! Fortunately I have a few cans of beer in the fridge, although the canned beer is just the rot-gut stuff (PBR). I bought a quart of Miller Hi Life last week and nearly choked when I actually started to open it. The bottle is made of plastic! It's bad enough to pour it into a plastic cup at a picnic or while camping, but from a bottle in the fridge? I swear it didn't taste at all like Miller Hi Life. I need to make a trip to my local craft brewery and buy a few bottles to bring home, although that means I'll stand around talking to the staff and have a couple of glasses while I'm there.
So I don't know if it's worse to be out of beer or out of ice cream on triple digit evenings. I think I'd vote for the ice cream to tell the truth.
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Trying to beat the heat
Ok, so if a few readers happen to be a bit chilled because you live on the Pacific Coast, especially if you're lucky enough to live on the coast in Oregon, let me try to warm you up. Or at least make you appreciate the chill. Since about noon the temperature has been 100F (and rising to 106 for today).
I like to get up early and enjoy what coolness there is in the mornings, so I went to the gym and to the chiropractor this morning. Since I've been back I've thought about going to Costco and Home Depot, and even gathered up my phone, keys, and purse several times. Then I think of the awful heat out there and come back and sit down in the flow of air from my swamp cooler.
This is terrible because I'm out of ice cream! Fortunately I have a few cans of beer in the fridge, although the canned beer is just the rot-gut stuff (PBR). I bought a quart of Miller Hi Life last week and nearly choked when I actually started to open it. The bottle is made of plastic! It's bad enough to pour it into a plastic cup at a picnic or while camping, but from a bottle in the fridge? I swear it didn't taste at all like Miller Hi Life. I need to make a trip to my local craft brewery and buy a few bottles to bring home, although that means I'll stand around talking to the staff and have a couple of glasses while I'm there.
So I don't know if it's worse to be out of beer or out of ice cream on triple digit evenings. I think I'd vote for the ice cream to tell the truth.
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- Another Great Day!
Not great from the weather aspect though. At 7 pm it's still 99 degrees and I was gone during the coolest part of the day so I didn't get the swamp cooler turned on until late afternoon. I'm going to take a beer outside and sit...
- Hot-hot-hot!!!
I never did like Sacramento during the summer, and the older I get the more I hate it. Triple digits for at least the next week are not healthy for me. I've been out twice today - early this morning I went to buy strawberries at the farmers'...
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I just put the last pieces into the jigsaw puzzle I started on June 14. That is 1000 pieces. I thought I was missing 3 pieces but moved the coffee table a bit and found them on the floor. I'm posting a picture of the finished puzzle,...
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