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Beating the HeatWe managed to survive a couple days of unusual heat for this area that culminated in a violent electrical storm Sunday evening. Today’s high was at least ten or fifteen degrees less than Saturday’s scorcher. Swimming helped me cool off each day and we ate out a couple of times to stay out of the kitchen. Yesterday afternoon I was… click here to continue June, 30th, 2008 Thanks to my California ChildhoodFor the first twelve years of my life, we lived in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys in California. With no air conditioning in those days and poorly insulated houses, I learned about keeping a house cool. Fortunately, our apartment is brick and has storm windows. The bedrooms also have insulated draperies. We also have some trees that help shade… click here to continue June, 28th, 2008 Food FallaciesOnce in a while, reading the microscopic ingredient lists on food products will reveal one that actually is “sugar free” or has “no sugar added.” Many packages, however, show that they contain “sucrose” or “malt dextrose” or “high fructose corn syrup” or some other pseudonym for sugar. Maybe these ingredients are not derived from cane or beets, but they are… click here to continue June, 25th, 2008 A Pleasant Sunday AfternoonSunday afternoon we drove into Portland for a Chamber Music Concert at Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos small auditorium. My daughter-in-law, who has a lovely operatic voice, sang along with a small group of musicians. All were talented and entertaining. Various groupings of piano, violin, bass, French horn and cello performed with and without accompanying soprano solos. I usually dread going… click here to continue June, 25th, 2008 Ghost WritingsAs I am attempting to arrange my memoir stories in some sort of cohesive order, I’ve discovered I don’t remember writing a few stories and some I remember writing, but can’t locate. If I can’t remember exact titles or associate them with the incidents I recall, they are hiding, incognito, in corners of my computer. This problem has previously surfaced… click here to continue June, 22nd, 2008 Warm Weather at LastWe were shocked to have an afternoon high of 87 degrees today. It was a bit muggy, but not uncomfortably hot. Our outdoor pools are still not open and the predicted lows for the nights this coming week are all in the 50’s. Tomorrow’s high is predicted to be 78. I have suspected for several years that our seasons are… click here to continue June, 20th, 2008 Weird WeatherMuch of the world is experiencing weird weather. Global warming, or weather cycles, or whatever, is baking some parts of this country, flooding others, and turning the calendar through the seasons, a day at a time, in the Pacific Northwest. We had two or three hot days in May and, since then, the weather switches back and forth… click here to continue June, 18th, 2008 |