I stole this sentence from fellow blogger Nina from 'Wheeling it', because it pretty much describes this last week over here as well.
She's in southern France where they have the harshest summer France has ever seen in its history and the rest of (southern) Europe isn't doing much better.
We're better off but still, temperatures in the high 90s and even low 100s are getting more and more 'normal' here in the NorthWest!
Not much is flowering at the moment, but I found some wild and heat-hardy ones ..
As I thought, a lot of my vegetable plants are a dud, but some corn came up, I've got a few snack-size mini-zucchini, some wax beans and the rattle-snake and roman beans are (only just now!) taking off ...
The deer family is keeping a close eye on things ..
Last week I finally scored one for only $50 on Marketplace!
Also, it was white .. and of course we wanted a black or stainless steel one ... oh, well, nothing that a spray-can of paint can't fix:
After putting everything back together:
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And in it's final resting spot!
There you have it! Back in business!
We'd bought tickets for the Sunday-matinee of Neil Simon's 1959 play 'Barefoot in the Park', which turned out to be a great move since the temperatures that afternoon soared to 102F (36C)!
Just the perfect time to enjoy a fun bit of theater in a nice air-conditioned environment!
We'd been to the Gallery theater in McMinville twice before but instead of at the 'Main Stage', this time the show took place in the much smaller, very intimate, Arena Theater which only has about 70 seats.
I took this picture during the first intermission, when they changed the decor ..

The play was a hoot, set in the 60's where a young, just married couple, starts living at the 6th floor of a New York apartment. When her mother comes to visit and they set her up with their very eclectic upstairs neighbor al kind of shenanigans break out, questioning all their relationships and 'how bad is it really if you have some different views and opinions'?

The scene after Ethel (mother) and Paul (Corie's husband) arrive in the apartment after climbing 6 floors!
We thought the play was very well done, despite Paul, the husband, having to read the whole play from a script since he was a completely last minute, impromptu understudy due to Covid felling the main/lead actor!
Afterwards we attended the Red Carpet reception in the upstairs bar area, celebrating the opening weekend of the show (which was postponed for a week due to several actors testing positive for Covid!).
Oh well, it's summer after all!