Day 185
Apparently it wasn’t hot enough in the house today while I painted (about 145 degrees upstairs in that oven-like bedroom) so after I cleaned up I ventured out to a few garden centers in the nearly 100 degree heat (and the I’m sure … 106 degree heat index).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again …
I am an idiot.
I feel like absolute CRAP at the moment.
That’s what I get … a fair-skinned, blue-eyed, heat-intolerant, burn at a glance at the sun idiot … out traipsing around in the heat in the blaring sun of non-shady garden centers!
Oh and yeah, great idea … let’s go in a GREENHOUSE when it’s 105 out … so that our internal temperature can match the temperature of the greenhouse which is nearing 140 degrees!
I actually stopped and had two workmen hose me down. Seriously. And I’m sure they were delighted as I brought the wet t-shirt contest TO them … and I didn’t care one bit. Just hose me down, mister before I have a convulsion!
Egad it was hot today.
I know, I know. EVERYONE is hot. EVERYWHERE is hot. I wouldn’t feel like this now if I had an ounce of sense … but I have to explain my lunacy.
The lawn guys came and made my yard pretty and nice and one look at it and I couldn’t keep myself from jumping into the (air-conditioned) car and going to the nearest garden center and looking at things. Again. The last time I did this I brought home soon-to-be planted treasures that are yet to be planted and all but naked from the damn bugs eating them!
So, that is what I did. In a weak moment of lawn/yard bliss I went off and fried myself. I may as well have just put honey on me and buried myself in some sand pit. Well, at least ants didn’t eat me … but I was a bit roasted. Too roasted for my own good.
So, I did what any person would do in that situation … thought back to my girl scout days for a remedy for heat exhaustion and sun stroke … and followed the directions to a tee!
However, I think that eating an Italian beef sandwich and washing it down with a margarita and Fritos wasn’t exactly in the handbook. I must have had the counselor’s guidebook!
Anyway, I am relaxing and drinking vats of water and have some cool towels on my neck … and am feeling MUCH better. My sketch pad is at hand and I’m drawing up plans for the yard … the Rose Cottage garden is coming to be! It’s going to look so great!
Now if I can just enlist some elves to help me dig!
In any case … tomorrow I will go back and get some plants … others I will wait until it is cooler (like next month which is ALREADY … September) and plant those at that time. I have hostas and daylilies to dig up and move to new locations along with my fox gloves … and I’ll get some lavender and sage and some daisies to fill in for now.
And then I’ll sprinkle in the bark so it’ll look exceptionally wonderful and hope that the dog doesn’t dig everything up within the first week!