It's Been Too Hot . . . .

It really been too hot (in the high 90s and low 100s) to work outside--besides the only thing needing to be done is mowing, and since it's so hot and dry, the grass doesn't grow much and mowing it in this heat would kill a lot of it anyway, so I've stayed indoors--mostly working on the manuscript for my novel Arise Beloved. I got my ISBN numbers from Bowkers this week, so I'm ready to upload the manuscript as soon as I've been over it one last time looking for typos, etc. I am sure having a hard time finding all of them. They seem to hide from me, then pop up the next time I read a page. I find the same thing happens in the kitchen and other places: I can look and look for something and not find it, then the next minute there it is right in front of me. I suspect elves or fairies are involved.

I have been harvesting okra, eggplant, and black-eyed peas. I have one or the other or all three almost every night for supper. I've been giving away eggplant because if it gets too big, it has too many seeds, and the plants are producing more than I can eat myself, and since I don't really like the recipes I have for canning or freezing eggplant much, giving it away is the only thing besides letting it rot in the compost pile. I've been able to stay ahead of the okra and what I haven't eaten, I've frozen whole. I've also had enough BE peas to freeze some, but not enough yet to can.

We've been having cool nights lately--in the low 60s, which is nice because I can sleep with the windows open and the A/C off, but it still gets up in the 90s during the day. It's quite a span--30 degrees between night and day, but I'm hoping fall weather will get here soon in the day too.

I'm planning on planting some of the fall garden next week even if it is hot. I can get a lot done in the morning before it really heats up.