It was another weekend -- another hot weekend -- here, though this weekend we actually had a bit of rain! I'd been hoping for a good thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, which did not materialize, but we did get a couple of good soaking rains. Still a drop in the bucket as far as our deficit is concerned, but I'll take it!
We ended up going out to dinner with my parents on Friday night to a new-to-us place that we all agreed was a place we'd go back to. Saturday Molly worked, the Mister rode his bike, and I managed to go for a 6+-mile walk (in addition to my regular walks with Ruthie). I made a chocolate zucchini cake (from this cookbook) using the two zucchinis I managed to harvest from my plants before the heat killed them. Ruthie took naps -- and apparently had some interesting dreams:
I finished an ebook and an audiobook and pondered which of these variegated skeins to use with the light green semisolid for a new shawl (Ravelry link):
I was up both mornings a little earlier than I'd like, but I slept well and managed a brief nap both days, so I can't complain. The only cooking I had to do all weekend was make a salad to go with pizza on Saturday night and prep some potatoes and asparagus for the oven last night. As weekends go, it was a pretty good one! And now it's back to the usual. It's Molly's last week of summer break, and in addition to working two shifts this week, she's got to finish her summer reading assignment, which happens to be what might be my favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. It looks like it's going to be a little cooler this week, so maybe it'll be less sweaty than it has been. There are already leaves drying up and falling in the neighborhood, so fall is on the way!
The weekend was hot and sweaty but yours sounds pretty good in terms of activities. I hope you had a big piece of that zucchini cake after your 6+ mile walk. It's cooler here this morning and today's high is predicted to be 20 degrees cooler than yesterday, so I'll take it. I hope your week is off to a good start!
ReplyDeleteI am so over these temps although the early morning walks have not been horrendous! The later in the day ones are most miserable! Lorna's Laces!! Oh my! I have a few precious skeins in my stash! Happy Monday to you!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you had such a nice weekend despite the hot temps. It is. cooler here today (but still pretty humid). That cake sounds delicious. Pretty yarn and that shawl looks very interesting. I wonder what Ruthie was dreaming about....
ReplyDeleteThat shawl is lovely. I finished The Names - so good but also hard to- and started Elena Knows which is very interesting . Also started a new pair of socks so it was a lovely, wet weekend here.
ReplyDeleteIt has certainly been a hot-and-muggy August . . . although I woke up to a cool-and-rainish morning here in northern Michigan today. And the acorns are raining down, too. Fall can't be too far off . . .
ReplyDeleteThere's definitely a change in the air! Cooler nights & mornings -- dare I say it? It's almost sweater weather! It's coming, anyway. There isn't an 80-something-degree day in my forecast (and that's HUGE).
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