"It almost feels like Groundhog day here on the blog when I talk about the weather these days, but what can you do. It’s still hot, it’s still dry…and it’s going to continue, oh my."

I stole this sentence from fellow blogger Nina from 'Wheeling it'.
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!

                                                                                                                                                                 

I plan my walks early and choose the shadiest routes ...
Not much is flowering, but I found some wild and heat-hardy ones ..

                      

                               
 

A lot of my vegetable plants are a dud, but some corn came up, I've got a few snack-size mini-zucchini and the rattle-snake beans and roman beans are (only just now!) taking off  ...

               

The deer family is keeping a close eye on things ..

What else? Oh yeah, we got a new (to us) dishwasher. Our old one had died and I'd been on the lookout for a replacement for forever.

It needed to be an 18" apartment size to fit in the closet space under the cook-top in our RV. Those units are ridiculously expensive when new, being of an 'odd' size, and I hoped to score a used one on one of the online sites.
Last week I finally scored one for only $50 on Marketplace!

                                                     

As usual, it needed a little 'mickey-mousing' to get everything to fit, but James is good at that ..
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:

Starting to put everything back together:

Connecting hoses under the sink ... James' least favorite thing to do, plumbing ..

And voila, all done:

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.

Afterwards we attended the Red Carpet reception celebrating the opening weekend of the show in the upstairs bar area.

It was fun to be able to talk to all actors and enjoy some 'Rose bubbles' and German chocolate cake (James' favorite!).

OK, that's all folks! The weather is a little cooler at the moment but it looks like we're back in the 100's next week again!

Oh, well, it's summer after all ..