Having Iced coffee at Sharron and Merv's site

 

Wow, did it get hot this week! Temperatures of 92F(31C) to 95F(33C) !

…de mussen vallen van het dak! This Dutch saying literally translates to it’s so hot, the sparrows are falling off the roof.

I had to look this up (of course) and found out that this saying has actually nothing to do with sparrows falling off a roof but dates back to times when lots of the farm roofs, for insulation purposes, where covered with moss (mos). During very hot and dry weather the moss would crack and parts of it would fall down.
When the moss wasn't used anymore, the saying became misunderstood and the 'mossen' changed into 'mussen' meaning 'sparrows', somehow making more sense to fall of the roof when it would be hot enough. Not that it would ever be that hot in Holland!

Merlin found a cool(er) spot in the basement

 

It got warm enough to turn on the air conditioning (my limit inside is 86F), mainly for the dog (right), who has a thing lately that she only seems to want to be inside the RV for some odd reason?
I sure like to be able to cool down the bedroom for the night too tough and I'm also happy our electricity is free!!

My tomatoes are much happier these days and are coloring quickly now. They taste so much better than the ones from the store!

 

 

Since James has been promoted to greens superintendent he now has his own office :

                                                                 And a big workshop....

                                                              

So know we have free golfing at the Los Lagos golf course which is a step up from the Lake Dessert one. The grass, aka, the greens, are definitely much greener over here and the warmer weather has brought out the flowers (African daisies)!

We're golfing in the late afternoon again, around 5pm, when it starts to cool down a bit and are just making it through 9 holes before it gets to dark to see where you're going.
It reminds us of Lake Arrowhead where we used to do the same thing almost every day when we were members of the Country Club up there.
You usually have the course to yourselves and the evenings are so beautiful and quiet.
  
I've started a new knitting project for which I'm using the very first yarn I ever spun. I just liked to have it hanging around as a colourful 'hank' and proudly looked at it as my first spinning achievement but I finally decided to make something useful of it.





So guess what I'm knitting in this heat? Gloves! Off course, why not?
And yes, that's pretty crazy, I guess, but at least they're fingerless ones :)!

The warm weather has brought the farmer out on the fields again. Who knows what he's doing, just plowing away...

 


He has help from this little yellow airplane that makes long passes over the fields. I can't SEE that he's spraying but I'm pretty sure he is.

 

  

 

I don't think I want to know what it is.................