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vacuum trucks of Hurley
Monday, April 16 2012
Today temperatures topped out near 90 degrees Fahrenheit, necessitating a few hours of fan use in the laboratory (which never got as hot as outdoors during the duration of the heat wave). A place that was even less affected by the heat wave was the greenhouse, whose huge thermal mass of insulated concrete and bedrock still had vivid memories of winter, anemic though it was. Today while I was down there I repotted the last of the tomatoes that will ever need repotting for this season, and for this particular tomato it was its second repotting (or third, if you count the initial transplanting of it when it was merely an enthusiastic pair of cotyledons). Multiple transplantings are unusual when working with annuals, but remember that these tomatoes began life back in early January.
Before going off to something work-related, Gretchen made a tempeh stew with rice from a recent batch of tempeh I'd made using soy beans. Unfortunately, though, this particular batch wasn't very cohesive, and the beans had all broken free of their matrix of white mold. Still, it was a good lunch, and we ate it outside under the shade of the pines near the woodshed. It was too hot to sit in the sun. Meanwhile the Town of Hurley kept slowly driving vacuum trucks up and down Dug Hill Road, slurping pine cones and chunks of shale from the ditches on either side.
This afternoon I took a recreational dose of pseudoephedrine, which I found very helpful for cranking through a set of changes to a data migration tool I'd professionally built.
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