I Like Thursdays

Thank God for our AC.  Here's plants not affected by the heat:

In our front yard planting.

Here's a close up - aren't those flowers fabulous?

A different cactus with colorful, wicked looking thorns.

Four Days

My lovely roses are fried from the heat. Only one survived
cuz it's low to the ground and fully shaded.

of unrelenting heat!  Friday - 119; Saturday - 118; Sunday - 110.  Today they promise 105 and it may happen - the low last night was 77 - way better than the 84-85 of the last few nights.

I suffer from heat exhaustion (I had heat stroke in 2002 and now very sensitive to high heat),  and while I try very hard to stay in an air conditioned room, after a few days it starts to get to me wherever I am.  Yesterday, I started to feel the nausea and wooziness right after 8 AM mass.  We went to one store and by the time we were home at 10am, I had to lay down. Ugh.  Today, even though I could leave the windows open last night, I'm feeling it again. What to do? I drink lots of cool water, watch tv or read or sleep.  Dinners are easy things.  For instance, yesterday, I took out a P F Chang frozen entree and cooked it in a skillet. I had leftover white rice for my husband, but I put some Romaine lettuce mix on my plate and put the Orange Chicken on top of that. Great way to lower the carb count to the dish.

Sewing?  Hah! Maybe later in the week when the temps are suppose to be only in the 90s. Has to be under 96 or else still can't function.

Hope you are well. Blessings.

Some of This; Some of That

First - the destashing:  When there's not much sewing going on, there's not much destashing either. For the six blocks I made, I used .58 yards. For the larger scraps I pulled to donate to the Guild, I found 4.59 yards coming to 5.17 yards out! This gives me a  YTD total of 40.60 yds destashed out of the 50 yards I need at this time to meet my year-end goal.  First time less than 10 yards difference - woohoo.

I'm suppose to work on my UFO #11 this month - Japanese place mats, but I"m going to work on another UFO instead. It's Christmas in July! This is a table runner I started last year. Needs to be sandwiched, quilted and bound.

I'm also reporting on what I like (On I Like Thursdays) - I'm going to show you all the flowers that I saw and brightened my days.

In San Jose, downtown is festooned with colorful planters and trees in bloom.

 At the mission - glorious flowers all over.

The Mission's cemetery had planting also. Very old tombstones here  - 1700s.

The Municipal Rose Garden has a magnificent stand of redwoods.

as well as glorious roses all in bloom

Roses everywhere we could see.

What did you like this week? I'd love to see.  To view other entries visit I Like Thursdays.