The sun is just now, at 08:30, breaking through the haze and things are warming up once more. I’ve gone round the house drawing blinds and curtains and setting up the electric fans to keep the air moving. Works surprisingly well.
The washer is chundering quietly away on its first load of the day and, if the state of the laundry basket is anything to go by, another three loads will see it all away. Then I’ll do one last, very small load to get things like trousers and shorts washed and dried.
I really do need to get a washing line set up–it’s all very well drying laundry in the machine during the rainy months but now it’s close to criminal to waste electricity like that. An hour outside in this weather leaves the clothes and linen dry and sweet smelling, and a 20 minute warm cycle in the drier softens them ready for the store.
Yesterday’s allocated task–shopping–got done in spite of it being yet another ‘hottest day this year’.
I timed it so’s I arrived in time to take a late lunch in the supermarket restaurant and enjoyed a plate of fish-cakes (cod and cheddar cheese), salad and chips, followed by strawberries and cream, all on special offer. My evening meal, very late, was ‘southern-fried’ chicken breast ‘fillets’ and beans. That was my food intake for the day–I forgot breakfast until it was too close to lunch time. I’ve settled on a fruit compote with unsweetened yoghurt for breakfast.
Even allowing for the chips and cream, I think I did ok there. I’m not dieting for weight loss, more to get a good, healthy routine going to see me through the summer. It may all change at the end of the season when Graham gets back.
Dolly is moaning at me, or perhaps cussing me out, it’s difficult to say. The Frontline is doing its magic thing but I decided before applying it to give her a good brush and comb to see if there was anything in the way of a tick infestation. Couldn’t find any, for which I’m very thankful. Nasty things, ticks.
And then, feet up, glass of wine, and another episode of The Tudors. Being capable of repeat viewing is the sign of a good bit of TV drama, I reckon.
I suspect that my day today will be a repeat, too, except that you may substitute laundry for shopping.
This time I had to chase Rascal and hold him down to give him his Frontline treatment. Makes his mouth water and drool.
One of my cats has a similar problem with Frontline but I think it’s because she manages to lick it, however inaccessible it seems to be.
We’re using Advocate at the moment because the dog has a problem with ear mites and that doesn’t seem to affect the cat as badly. I expect they’re all different though.
I was telling Kate (from Canada) how I don’t use the chemical stuff anymore on the animals, for ticks and fleas. Have been using ‘Nupro’ for years now.
We began using it for our dogs ‘hip’ problems and found the joint formula. The side benefit was – no fleas or ticks!
I’m not recommending taking Dolly off her Frontline – just lending a little info.
Too hot to cook supper, so I stopped at the pizza shop on the way home. I got a nice 12-inch combo-pizza for about US$5 with a little side-dish of pickles, sweet gerkin slices with a touch of cloves. It’s not diet food, but once every few months, I do treat myself. Lunch was a salad with some kiwi bits.
The weather guys are teasing us saying we may get some rain. Fat chance and probably too late for our yard. Unless it rains for days, which it won’t.
Your day was sure more productive than mine.
Nancy’s comment recently when we had finished the first disc from season 7 of “24″ was that having watched the first two seasons of “Tudors” it now made “24″ seem a bit flat in comparison. “Tudors” never lets history accuracy get in the way of being entertaining, but it is certainly entertaining television. Can’t wait for Netflix to have season 3. Heck, if they could keep on at the level of the first two seasons, I’d be happy if they followed with a “Stuarts” series (or perhaps hop down to when Thomas Cromwell’s great-great-great nephew Oliver took charge).
What’s the deal with all your hot weather? My pal in (usually soggy and grey) Belgium has been roasting in the heat too. Must be all of our American cars and factories warming up the skies over Europe, eh????
Dolly seems to get on fine with Frontline, always has. Harry used to froth a bit but then he was a total drama queen and could put on any kind of act if he thought it’d get him an extra helping of Carnation milk…
Boy, those must have been tiny portions. Obviously I do not move around enough to get rid of my small meals for I seem to be growing again. Glad to frontline works. Do we have any new Dolly pictures?
Strawberries and chicken. Now that’s the way to handle the heat, John. You’ll do just fine.
We’ll be getting temperatures up in the 90′s tomorrow and up until Friday or Saturday here in Oregon. We’ve had glorious weather the past few weeks–mid 70′s with light breezes. I just woke from a brief afternoon nap, made a salad for dinner, and ate a bowl of fresh raspberries and milk to tide me over until then. I love summer!
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Good idea about hanging clothes on an outside line to save energy.
Alas, I live in Mississippi, where the humidity rarely dips below about 95%. If you hung something on the line, it would just get more wet.