July 25, 2010

Another steamy week in CT as the heat and humidity continues to grip the Northeast and from the looks of it most of the rest of the country.  The weather conditions have decreased our energy for doing much so we had a pretty slow weekend.  But have brought in the black-eyed susans which are making the front flower garden pop with color. 

Friday was rainy, which was nice to water the garden during the heat, so Jo headed out to shop while I curled up with a good book to read a little.  Dinner was pizza on the grill which gives the crust a nice crunchy taste, but I still need to work on not giving it a blackened, crusty taste (blackened sole - good, blackened pizza crust - bad).

First thing Saturday morning we headed out for our long run for the week into what were already warm temperatures.  We managed to struggle our way through about 7-8 miles, but this resulted in us being wiped out for most of the day.  After our gym workout it was home to finish the windows on the second floor - in case you were keeping track, that only leaves the windows on the deck to complete.  We also had the chimney folks into fix the chimney on the furnace.  We felt really sorry for them as it was in the high 80's, sunny, and incredibly humid.  Not the time you want to be climbing up and down from the roof or working on top of it.  But we now have a new chimney system and are back up and running.  For dinner we met up with Barbara and Mike at the River Tavern in Chester for a great dinner while we caught up on each other's lives and solved a few of the world's problems along the way.

Today, we hit the garden to do some harvesting and then made some pickles from the freshly picked cucumbers (bread and butter in case you are wondering) and froze some beans (two hours from picking to freezing - let's see Green Giant beat that).  Just need to wait a few days to taste the pickles to decide if we want to do some more.  Also, given yesterday's exhaustion a nap was in the order for the day.  ShHame I can't get naps during the week only on weekends.

One interesting story from the week, Wednesday storms knocked out our power for a couple of hours.  Instead of finding some candles to struggle to read by, we both whipped out our tech gizmos - Blackberry for me, Iphone and Ipad for Jo - and sat in the semi-dark playing games or surfing the net - such as checking on the power companies web site to monitor progress in repairing.  How times have changed.  Given the Ipad has a book reader, we could have even read a book in the dark.  Of course, all this works until the batteries give out, but the power was returned prior to that happening.  Viva new technology.