The Tomatoes Are Coming: "I should have taken a clue from the fact that the national chains were all selling little ordinary wire tomato cages, but our local garden store sold only these scary thick reinforced wire tomato cages that came in two sizes: wolverine and bear."
This is why I'll never be an adult, on the off chance that there's still someone somewhere out there who does not understand where "Clean ALL the things!" (or, alternately, "Clean ALL the things?") comes from.
This has been the worst summer I've lived through, at least in terms of temperature. (The food's been excellent: in the last three weeks I've eaten at La Sandia four times, Zengo twice, and the conveyor-belt sushi in Tysons once.)
And for once I'm actually doing something about it. Sort of.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uilos and I were originally kicking around places to go that weren't quite so warm. My favorite of these plans involved flying down to Tierra del Fuego for a long weekend to see penguins; We scrapped this one once we realised that it would take a full day to fly down there and a full day to fly back. So we're pretty much stuck with places that are Warm. Stupid northern hemisphere, having summer at the same time all over.
Anyway, after some discussion we're heading down to Key West over the last weekend in August. It'll still be Warm, but less stiflingly humid, and surrounded by water that I can jump into to cool down. (One snorkeling excursion is already planned for Satyrday.)
(Also, over Labor Day I'm heading out to Seattle to visitnixve, but since that happens in September it feels less like something done to fight the heat.)
This is why I'll never be an adult, on the off chance that there's still someone somewhere out there who does not understand where "Clean ALL the things!" (or, alternately, "Clean ALL the things?") comes from.
This has been the worst summer I've lived through, at least in terms of temperature. (The food's been excellent: in the last three weeks I've eaten at La Sandia four times, Zengo twice, and the conveyor-belt sushi in Tysons once.)
And for once I'm actually doing something about it. Sort of.
uilos and I were originally kicking around places to go that weren't quite so warm. My favorite of these plans involved flying down to Tierra del Fuego for a long weekend to see penguins; We scrapped this one once we realised that it would take a full day to fly down there and a full day to fly back. So we're pretty much stuck with places that are Warm. Stupid northern hemisphere, having summer at the same time all over.Anyway, after some discussion we're heading down to Key West over the last weekend in August. It'll still be Warm, but less stiflingly humid, and surrounded by water that I can jump into to cool down. (One snorkeling excursion is already planned for Satyrday.)
(Also, over Labor Day I'm heading out to Seattle to visit
nixve, but since that happens in September it feels less like something done to fight the heat.)