End of July Weather Report: Hot

 It's a long, hot summer here at the Merry house. 

I did go with the kids to the water park one day. It was miserably hot. Since my bathing costume is a shirt and capri's, I was melting. You can't bring your own chair with arms so I was forced to sit on a lounger 6 inches from the ground. Luckily I brought my stroller so I could pull myself up. I will not be doing that again. 

We do go to a wonderful park near my house in the early mornings, before it gets too warm. Then we come home to eat chicken nuggets and watch minion movies. 

My class reunion is approaching and I had to have a long talk with myself.  No more shopping. Nothing will help me look 50 pounds thinner and 50 years younger. Accept it Miss Merry. 

We still haven't started the remodeling project. Mr Merry broke a tooth yesterday so we will have to look at that cost and the effect of the trauma on his work schedule. He was eating ice cream at the time. He is in no pain, but his bp is through the roof. He is very upset about this. I hope hope hope I can get him into the dentist tomorrow. 

Our oldest granddaughter is in an art competition or experience or something where she will be stationed on a street corner in a city almost two hours away and painting for the next three days. We are driving up this afternoon in our air conditioned car, sweating on the sidewalk to watch her and driving home. 

I have a confession. I have an unhealthy attachment to inanimate objects and another one is furniture. My youngest daughter recently married and she and her husband are combining two households. When my kids were setting up households, I was dispersing items that belonged to my mother and my grandmother. And my great aunt.  I can't bear to see these on a curb or on Facebook Marketplace. While we are watching the artist, a couch and china cabinet will be placed in my garage.  Tomorrow I will see if I can stretch the walls of my house to make room for them. . . My youngest granddaughter has made room for my grandmother's Victorian vanity and my daughter has found a place for my great aunt's hope chest.  I can't bear to part with any of it. 

Well, as I was typing the furniture arrived. Luckily Mr Merry was in the shower and my moving crew moved the couch in front of my couch and the china cabinet is wedged in my dining room. Tomorrow my 12 and 9 year old furniture movers can assist me in my first plan. I think I can move the hutch into my guest room where there is currently a book case.  I guess my first step will be measuring tape. Mr Merry will have to lend me his box of "sliders". 

The "garden", 2 tomato plants, 2 green pepper plans and 4 pots of lettuce have been thriving in the heat and city water I provide. We are getting enough tomatoes I have been freezing them whole for spaghetti sauce, as well as eating tomato salads every night for dinner. Neither of us eat stuffed or raw peppers but I freeze in strips for sausage sandwiches.  We enjoyed lots of salads but the plants have gone to seed. Next year I am only doing iceberg. I had 3 varieties but we thought the other two were bitter.  The daylilies are all brown and cut down but the Rose of Sharons are blooming.  

I think that is all the trivia in my life for now. My teacher daughters already are scheduling classroom days so the quantity of grandchildren during the day is increasing. I think I need to stock up on bread, milk, butter and popsicles for the coming week. 

Stay Cool Fellow Bloggies!