On 8/3/16 12:53 PM, Malvary Cole wrote:
Malvary in Ottawa where it is very hot again today (very
hot being relative - others probably have it much hotter)
and I'm dripping perspiration having just got home from
playing a 12-end lawn bowls game.
I'm just now drying out from having been outside long enough
to carry a plate of garbage to the compost heap.
Harrumph! The weather station says it's only 78.4 F out
there. But *its* thermometer is in the shade.
Shade temperatures were in the nineties a week or two back,
which is unusual for northern Indiana. Whenever I checked
the weather, I got a "dangerously hot" warning and had to
page down for the details. My brother-in-law told me that
he'd stopped playing tennis, but I kept on cycling. However
hot it is, it's not too bad with a ten-mile-an-hour wind.
(But when I stop, sproing!)
When you ride a bike, the universal farewell from strangers
is "be careful!"; that week it changed to "drink water!".
I was mostly drinking tea and switchel; I have discovered
that I can freeze switchel concentrate in half-cup
containers and boop up water I've picked up along the way.
Switchel is an eighteenth-century hayhand's drink consisting
of ginger, molasses, vinegar, and optional oatmeal. I
substitute honey and freshly-squeezed lemon juice for the
molasses and vinegar.
A little starch in a drink helps it get from the bowels into
the blood stream, and ginger keeps the cold water from
upsetting the stomach. I think the sweet and the sour are
just to make it taste better, but I *have* found that lemon
water -- after squeezing a lemon, I put the spent peel into
ice water -- goes down faster than plain water.
--
Joy Beeson
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where it's sunny and clear, the corn is stressed, and the
beans are starting to feel it.
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