Song of the day: “Halfway up the Hindu Kush” by Katie Melua. Weird, but I woke up with that one this very morning, even though I don’t particularly like it a lot. It’s nice, and everything, just not a favorite, so I have no choice but to wonder about it.
I was a wee bit giddy this morning, seeing as I woke up with, for the first time in at least six months, no excruciating pain in my heel. The only reason I can think of that is different, is that I slept without dreams for a change, and that the cramping in my calf was therefore not in presence. It was somewhat of a novelty to be able to walk to the bathroom with barely a limp, so definite YAY! for me. Hah.
Okay, the past couple of days: Well, we’re fully harvesting tomatoes every day now, meaning that we had a two gallon pot filled with them yesterday and made a wonderful batch of tomato soup. Gawd, I’m having it for lunch today, so I am definitely looking forward to that.
Also took the opportunity to head on up to the garden patch up in the old horse paddock where we took out our second harvest of green beans…they constituted dinner last night…got out onions, zucchinis (yes they’re still going strong) some beets and admired the melons, cantaloupes and pumpkins. They’re looking great, and just looking at them makes me want to taste them.
For the past couple of days we’ve been trying to get some work done on the greenhouse, putting in the last bits of woodwork, and it is going slowly, considering we also try to put the most work in the edits and gardening.
Talking of edits: still going strong and only a 150 pages or so to go, so we’re well past half. Had a couple of excellent scenes the past couple of days, by the way, we went through them easily, meaning that edit #1 was solid. There are only a few minor changes to do, and some typos to catch. It is a simple plot, sure, but the characters are fascinating and the scenes entertaining: Yep, took me by surprise, considering my mind only registered the general strokes of the scenes, rather than the details, during writing and the first edit.
Tenant is now having a trip to the pool every day, and she loves it. Considering it is really summer now, the mercury goes above 30 constantly, the cooling off is good for her; not to mention that we can do new exercises in the water that aren’t at all difficult for her. She enjoys it too, being in the coolness and doing the movements, so those are plusses all round.
The dogs aren’t much like the heat either. Gada is constantly slipping past me when I go to the pool, so she can have a quick dip, and even Chaos is barging into the water in hopes of cooling off a bit.
Bommel just finds a shadowy spot, preferably in a breeze, flops down on his side and dozes off. Poor old fella, so hot, and so sleepy. Still, he bravely follows me up and down the mountain…when he notices.
Knight II isn’t liking the heat at all, by the way. He sleeps a lot too, especially on cold tiles all stretched out, just to try to cool off…while Dax, Mosha and Sitabah will find a sunny spot and start sunbathing every morning. Idiots!
Along with the work on the greenhouse, we used the hot afternoon yesterday to work in the carport and put together a storage closet for grandpa. It’ll be solid, made of wood and supply him the space he needs to put stuff away…he’s getting to be a tad annoyed by the mess, simply because we’re stretched a little thin at the moment. No matter though, time, as they say, is still free and until the event that it isn’t, well…
I shouldn’t yap on too much. There still is the edit and I need to go to the doctor in about five hours, so I really should get to it, darn it.
Hmmm. Since I can’t think of anything else to write about anyway, this is as good a spot as any to stop.
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