!Garden produce, heat, mosquitoes
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agk's diary
25 July 2022 @ 16:30 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1 via puTTY & Unicomp keyboard
on 6th floor of College of Nursing after SIM lab
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I eat chard, onions, mint, and juicy tomatoes with
morning eggs. Our countertop's buried under cucumb-
ers and yellow squash our daughter found under big
squash leaves in my sponsor's garden. Crows didn't
eat the corn this year. Sweat shines perpetually on
our skin. Extraordinary abundance of beans await
the pot.
The summer children's free lunch program advertised
on facebook and ran out two weeks ago. They didn't
advertise on facebook but got more donations this
week. We froze about 5 flats of blueberries and
blackberries so far; ate about as many.
To freeze fruit for smoothies and snacks
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* Wash; spread on baking sheet, freeze.
* You can dump each batch in a freezer bag once
the surface of the berries is frozen hard.
* This prevents clumping.
To cool off
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* Sit in shade, feet in turtle-shaped thing that's
supposed to be a sandbox but which you filled
with water. Watch toddler hypnotically fill and
dump a cup.
* Drag box fan with extension cord outside for
breeze. Splash or spritz with spraybottle of
water to evaporative cool.
* Drink seltzer, switchel (honey, dilute apple
cider vinegar, pinch of salt), lemonade, sweet
mint sun tea. Exclaim: Lord, it's hot.
