Boy, it's hot out there: the Friday edition

Last I looked, the heat index / real feel was 105F and 93F.

Tomorrow up to 100F and Sunday 99F real temperature.

I ate granola for lunch and dinner.

Wilting in AC.  I know it's in part because

I was so busy this week.

And early this afternoon, a lady, cute young daughter and I 

went to visit our candle desk man who is at Rehab / Nursing Home

and I put up some paper icons with tape... 

It's hard to see one you loved so much unable to be on his own...

when only a few years ago he was giving me rides from church still...

but it is as it is and 87 years old at that... the age of my Grandmother... 

he was talking again how when he was a child the family had a farm

in another part of the NJ and he spent time haying and milking cows...

he saw sides of beef on hooks skinned right on the lawn

before going into the butcher's place, 

on the biggest street near ours, when he was a kid... 

***

Well, I finished a food memoir, I found it well written,

full of adventures, stories, food, social history...

and also a lot of pain and confusion and loneliness... 

I feel alternately at a loss to know what to do with the last decades

here in the States, all the "freedoms" that have come since 1968 that I see

actually has silent unacknowledged chains and the heartache and confusion

I see because of all that has happened. 

Messy, not easy to sort out, sad, but yet with advances in many areas,

including food.  But such a mix of sun and black darkness, with 

muddy greens, browns and greys with glorious beautiful flowers,

all mixed in together.  

***

Mr Husband is on his way home.

I have asked him to have water with him to drink,

of course I am worried about the heat.

But then, I worry, have a hard time not.  

***

I did some research on eye stuff.... 

I find that hard.

Like an overwhelming, don't want to think about it read about it

deadlines that is like a looming exam but instead

it's a day long trip to Philly where I will have more tests

and I will take a train there and back and have a list

of things to bring (including food, drink) and the like. 

So that's that.

***

I am thinking about cookies and how I want to bake them.

And how this heat needs to get tamed so I can do so.

***

I am glad we have watermelon, lemonade in the fridge 

and lots and lots of tea. 

***

May God help us all.

I seriously think that it was in His mercy that he made

tea for us to drink....