{"id":1082,"date":"2009-07-03T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T12:25:12","slug":"hot-weather-and-summer-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2009\/07\/hot-weather-and-summer-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot weather and summer produce …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh it has been hot for the last few days. \u00a0So hot we have been staying outside to try and keep cool as the house has been unbearable. \u00a0Even the tiled kitchen floor didn’t cool us down.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
An indoor - outdoor thing ....<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mum purchased earlier this year an indoor – \u00a0outdoor room for the garden. \u00a0This has allowed us to keep cool in what breeze there has been away from the harsh sun outside.<\/p>\n

It is a great gadget and with the lights dad put up a few days ago allows mum and dad also to enjoy the outdoors into the late evening.<\/p>\n

\"Just<\/a>
Just chillin' in the warmth ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today the temperatures have dropped to be a manageable 23 degrees and to celebrate dad is playing music by Dire Straits and other tracks from iTunes.<\/p>\n

We can see that his help is going to be limited as the occasional air guitar is played and the pencil drumsticks are used. \u00a0It is going to be a long afternoon…<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A cool dip with a friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let us hope he doesn’t start mixing song titles into our blog or we will have to carry out a Private Investigation and remind him who are the Local Hero’s.<\/p>\n

A cool river dip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night we travelled to Dalston. \u00a0We went the long way around as it gave us a chance to cool off in the air conditioning.<\/p>\n

First stop was the river where we both got some welcome relief from the heat in the cool water.<\/p>\n

\"Gooseberries\"<\/a>
Gooseberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here we met up with another friend who had an interesting twist on the searching for stones game we often play.<\/p>\n

She ran into the water and popped her head under the water gathering up a stone from the river bottom and bringing it to the waters edge. \u00a0She then ran back into the water and got another and another.<\/p>\n

Summer fruits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mum has started the annual harvest. \u00a0First crop has been some of the many gooseberries from the allotment.<\/p>\n

The red and green fruits have been topped and tailed and put in bags for the freezer.<\/p>\n

\"Strawberry\"<\/a>
Strawberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are not allowed them as mum thought they would be bad for us but dad tells us they are great in a crumble during the winter.<\/p>\n

Mum thought she was working an a Chain Gang as she worked her way through hundreds of berries.<\/p>\n

The many hanging baskets full of strawberry plants are dripping with fruit it being Wimbledon Tennis Season.<\/p>\n

\"Sugar<\/a>
Sugar Snap Peas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The hot sunshine has really ripened the fruit and mum has started going to the garden on a morning, picking some of the fruit which she then slices for her breakfast on top of some yoghurt.<\/p>\n

You can not get fruit fresher than that and with no transport costs.<\/p>\n

One harvest we have been able to try has been the Sugar Snap Peas mum was processing this week.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>
Water Lilly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Again from the allotment, they were very crunchy and fantastic to throw around before we eventually ate them.<\/p>\n

Again another big bag full went into the freezer after a few were lightly steamed for an evening meal.<\/p>\n

Finally we just had to share a photograph of the water lilly flower in our pond. \u00a0It was lapping up the hot conditions during the daytime only to close in the cooler evenings. \u00a0it is quite clever for a plant.<\/p>\n

Thats all for now as it is now not Too Hot for Dancing in the Street as gardeners start Singing in The Rain as the heavens open with a welcome Downpour….<\/p>\n

Until next time<\/p>\n

Buster and Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gosh it has been hot for the last few days. \u00a0So hot we have been staying outside to try and keep cool as the house has been unbearable. \u00a0Even the tiled kitchen floor didn’t cool us down. Mum purchased earlier this year an indoor – \u00a0outdoor room for the garden. \u00a0This has allowed us to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1409,1418,1420,1430,1427,1413,1419,82,956,1407,1405,1416,1406,1408,1424,52,1411,1423,1426,1428,1414,1429,1410,615,1431],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-weather-general","tag-23-degrees","tag-air-guitar","tag-chillin","tag-cool-river","tag-cool-water","tag-dire-straits","tag-drumsticks","tag-few-days","tag-gadget","tag-harsh-sun","tag-hot-weather","tag-itunes","tag-kitchen-floor","tag-late-evening","tag-local-hero","tag-mum-and-dad","tag-playing-music","tag-private-investigation","tag-releaf","tag-river-bottom","tag-song-titles","tag-summer-fruits","tag-temperatures","tag-waters-edge","tag-welcome-relief","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}