{"id":5069,"date":"2019-07-14T21:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T02:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T20:23:41","slug":"the-hottest-part-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/the-hottest-part-of-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The hottest part of the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the cold wet spring (and late cold winter) we had some just beautiful weather for awhile there, I guess it was back in June, dry and cool, into the 50s at night so nice for sleeping, and not too humid. But I had to turn on the AC last week &#8211; Tuesday I slept on the couch because it was just too hot upstairs &#8211; and now it&#8217;s just not cooling downstairs. There&#8217;s no cold air coming out of the vent in the dining room where the thermostat is, and the AC&#8217;s blasting constantly and can&#8217;t cool the place lower than about 78\u00b0. And looky cold spring\/hot summer is the theme of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipiproduce.com\/2019wk9\/\">latest CSA newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yea, first world problems, but I&#8217;m calling the heating\/cooling company tomorrow to come take a look. I hope I don&#8217;t need new AC &#8211; that&#8217;ll be difficult to finance along with the incredibly expensive garage that we&#8217;ve been planning for a long time, although I have yet to hear what our start date is going to be. Fingers crossed the garage&#8217;ll be done by mid-October, and I won&#8217;t need new AC.<\/p>\n<p>In recent cooking adventures, the pantry meal on Tuesday was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all those muffins I made &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/16\/why-the-f-is-it-so-cold\/\">rhubarb, banana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cornmuffins.jpg\">corn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/new-recipes\/2019\/07\/05\/zucchini-muffins\/\">zucchini chocolate chip<\/a>, and just a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/date-buckwheat.jpg\">date\/walnut<\/a> (made with leftover charoset back right after Passover and frozen);<\/li>\n<li>pepper &amp; egg sandwiches &#8211; hunks of good crusty bread donated by <a href=\"https:\/\/batchbakehouse.com\/\">Batch<\/a>, oven baked eggs with mozzarella, sauteed peppers &amp; onion;<\/li>\n<li>pulled pork that came frozen in bags;<\/li>\n<li>tossed green salad;<\/li>\n<li>cantaloupe and grapes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had a pile of the peppers &amp; onions on buttered French bread, and the pork looked awfully tasty, too. But Monday night Mark and I had eaten pulled pork sandwiches at the <a href=\"https:\/\/union.wisc.edu\/dine\/find-food-and-drink\/bbq-stand\/\">Union Terrace<\/a> and mine was good, but sat very heavy in my stomach, so I couldn&#8217;t quite handle pork for breakfast the very next morning. I also burned my lower leg by getting too close the oven door; the oven in a 6 burner stove so close to the ground. I used to do it when I worked at the co-op women&#8217;s dorm, too. It looks sorta like the kind of burns people get from motorcycle tail pipes but it&#8217;s on the wrong side. It looks like hell, actually. It&#8217;s why you&#8217;re supposed to wear long pants and closed shoes in the kitchen, not a play skirt like I had on.<\/p>\n<p>I made it to work in time for my 11:00 AM meeting (changed clothes and brushed my hair <em>after<\/em>), and got through the rest of the day OK, tho I was late for my 5:45 haircut. It was a 15 minute bang trim, and I didn&#8217;t get there until something like five after 5:00, so I missed the whole appointment. They kindly rescheduled me for 5:30, and I sat and waited, didn&#8217;t dare try to drive to the library and pick up a book, I would&#8217;ve missed the new time as well.<\/p>\n<p>I came home and made quesadillas with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/calabacitas3-19.jpg\">leftover calabacitas<\/a>, a light dinner, and then rewarded myself with too much chocolate, that kept me awake, but not as bad as the heat that forced me to sleeping on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was kind of a more normal work day, fewer meetings, met a friend for coffee in the morning, went on a walking tour &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/madison-magazine\/city-life\/local-projects-build-awareness-of-tribes-as-madison-s-first-inhabitants\/769906141\">The UW-Madison First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour<\/a>. I ate a better dinner &#8211; naan with melted cheese and coleslaw &#8211; and this time my treat was ice cream with strawberry sauce and a couple episodes of Handmaid&#8217;s Tale. Which I enjoyed, although I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2019\/7\/3\/20678565\/the-handmaids-tale-season-3-episode-7-under-his-eye-recap\">read a pretty scathing review<\/a> of episode 7, one of the episodes I watched.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5075\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/icecreamwithstrawberries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/icecreamwithstrawberries.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/icecreamwithstrawberries-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/icecreamwithstrawberries-406x450.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wednesday ice cream with strawberries<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to do site visits for my practicum students so that means a boatload of phone calls, and a few in-person visits.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I had three of them, then went to Fete de Marquette to pour beer. I had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundbutcher.com\/\">Underground Butcher<\/a> hotdog from their food truck for dinner, then went to a candlelight vigil to stop the concentration camps, stopping to take a picture (like everybody else) of the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candlelightvigil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candlelightvigil.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candlelightvigil-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/candlelightvigil-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning we biked to the West Side Farmers Market and it was already hot. We bought a few things, came home for breakfast, and then I reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/index.png\">Art Fair<\/a> to do my brat grilling shift. Which was kind of fun, but pretty brutal in the heat. Mark came to meet me when I finished up at 3:00, and wanted to walk around the last two sides of the Square and look at the art. I made it the side from King St. to Pinckney St., but when we started walking from there over to State St. we were facing right into the sun, and I couldn&#8217;t take it &#8211; had to switch over to the sidewalk where there was a little shade. I biked home and had to sit and cool off a bit before I could even shower.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5072\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5072\" class=\"wp-image-5072 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/saturdaybrekkie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/saturdaybrekkie.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/saturdaybrekkie-150x148.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/saturdaybrekkie-455x450.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturday breakfast when it was already 85\u00b0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rach arrived and we had a big salad for dinner, and that&#8217;s when we noticed no cold air in the dining room.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday we had a few friends over for brunch, Carl &amp; Susan, and Heike without Steve, and Belinda without Stephen.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"7-14-19brunch\"><\/a>I made a gratin with fennel and squash from my CSA, and crumbs from a few hunks of that good donated-by-Batch bread, that I brought home from the pantry, and Parmesan cheese and olive oil. With scrambled eggs and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/recipe\/spaghetti-with-no-cook-puttanesca\">spicy no-cook tomato sauce<\/a> from Bon Appetit. And <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/U6aSBB\">Maida&#8217;s<\/a> blueberry crumb cake, and a big platter of fruit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/squahs-fennelgratin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/squahs-fennelgratin.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/squahs-fennelgratin-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/squahs-fennelgratin-529x450.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I finally found that gif of Megan Rapino kicking Trump away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-07-23.21.58.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the cold wet spring (and late cold winter) we had some just beautiful weather for awhile there, I guess it was back in June, dry and cool, into the 50s at night so nice for sleeping, and not too humid. But I had to turn on the AC last week &#8211; Tuesday I slept &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/the-hottest-part-of-the-summer\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,185,82,21],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-5069","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-climate-change","10":"post_tag-first-world-problems","11":"post_tag-summer-food","12":"post_tag-weekends"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}