100 Degrees? Summer is here.

We should have known that the nice cool weather wouldn't last.  It was a beautiful spring, lots of moisture for growing, nice cool nights, warm days, and we took advantage of it, cleaning out gardens that hadn't been cleaned out in a while, weeding new gardens and planting everything we could get in the ground.  The problem is, I wasn't done.  I still have seeds and room for things to go in.  And now it's 100 in Kansas.  When it gets this way in Kansas, we don't work outside.  It is truly dangerous to ones health.  So we do what we can in the early morning, and by 10 in the morning, we are driven to shade, or inside, to work inside the rest of the day.

The upside to this is that I can get sewing and knitting done that have sat all spring while I was busy preparing for this heat.  So now I have a quilt that I'm working on that maybe I can get done, and two shawls I'm knitting, plus a myriad of hats, socks, sweaters, etc., that have been sitting and waiting for me, as well as spinning that sits waiting.  Most of our days are full of 18 hours of work, and hopefully some sleep in between.  But the older we get, the less sleep we get.  Aches and pains keep us up, or wake us up, and the sun does it's job early in the morning.  We've gotten used to getting up with the light now, and believe it or not, we do get sleepy at about 9:00 pm.  I used to think that it was really weird how older people get tired so early, now I know, it's because they rise with the sun and sleep with the darkness.  It really is the way God intended us to be, and it works if you allow your body to do what it wants to do.

I have strawberries to clean today, and will get that done as soon as I get off of here, and peaches and cherries also.  Will try to get as much done as I can inside this afternoon.

Then tomorrow morning, while it's cooler (in the 80's here is cool in the mornings), I have mammoth sunflower seeds to still go in, they love the heat, and as long as I can keep them damp, they will come up.  And also still a ton of flowers to put in.  I'll start posting pics of our flowers this year, as soon as I figure out what's up with the camera.  The last two rolls of film, came back blank, so don't know what's going on with the 35 mm.  I could use the digital, but I really do not like it as well.

Everyone here is well at this point, and we are hoping to stay that way.  We frequent the farmers markets, and do what we can as far as stocking up, but I don't keep track.  It takes too much of my time, and time is precious, so we do what we can, and just let it go at that.  I can say that this week I have planted some things, harvested some things, stocked some things, visited farmers markets, etc, etc, etc.  But it's nothing different than we have been doing for many summers and springs in the past, so to me, keeping track of exactly what we have done just doesn't make sense.  I just know that we do these things.

I appreciate all those who do keep track though, I get great ideas from them occasionally on what I don't have in the garden that needs to be there.  

Well, enough for today,

Until Next Time.