Hot and dry. Garden in the eveninglight 2018-07-25. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Hot, dry…
That grass needs some serious watering… but we are supposed to use the water sparingly. So shrubs and flowers and such get priority, not the grass. Don’t want it all to die in the hot and dry weather. So far I have managed to keep it alive, but the garden surely looks tired. The autumn flowers are in bloom now, about a month too early.
The country as a whole has had (and still has) wild-fires in several places. Very serious because of the dry weather. Grass and woods are extremely dry and there is little needed to start a fire.
You really do not want to sit in front of the computer writing blog-posts in this heat. It is about +32°C in my work corner… in the morning, all day long and in the evening. It makes it impossible to think or do something there.
On July 29th the rain finally came and we had something like 28 mm of rain in 24 hours. Since we have had some light showers now and then, but the temperature is still high both outdoors and indoors.
So what do you do when it is as hot as this?
Not much.
No gardening (except for a short while in the evening).
No cleaning indoors.
No ironing (except when you have no choice).
No cooking if you can avoid it.
Neighbour and I spend the afternoons in the garden under an umbrella in the shade. Knitting actually and having coffee and ice-cream and a lot of cold water to drink. That is slow enough not to get exhausted by the heat.
It is just as hot in the nights even though it is slightly cooler outdoors then. But then there are the mosquitos… One would think that there are no mosquitos when it is as dry as it is, but there are. Plus other bugs and flying things. The last couple of days the air is also damp after the rain we had.
Temperature indoors and outdoors 2018-08-02. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Even I, who love it being warm weather and sunny, am really fed up with this heat which you cannot escape.
Prognosis says it will get cooler and more normal temperatures next week. I’ll believe that when I see it.
Never have so many looked forward to rains, clouds and cooler weather…
Clouds 2018-08-02. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
