Heat index today, 106. No rain in sight, again. I don't even know when our next chance of rain is in the forecast. The gardens are holding their own, but we're watering every other day. Banana pepper plants all died. They looked bad when I bought them, but it's all they had at the nursery. I got only a few small peppers off them. Cucumbers in the raised beds are finished, and I pulled the vines. The ones Cary planted in the volunteer garden are doing really good. New squash is coming along, but not as well as I would like. They are struggling in this heat.
We're going to small town to visit Mom, today. She has a beauty shop appointment this morning, so we'll wait til around noon for the visit. If she feels up to it, I'm going to get her to trim my hair. It's down to my butt, and I'm going to be sitting on it if I don't get a few inches cut off. She is a great beautician, but she likes for someone else to do her hair when she wants a perm.
As far as I know right now, we're having our Sunday home fellowship, tomorrow. It's always good to get together with the "gang". I need to get DDIL to order my freezer alarms for me while she's here, too.
Monday, shopping in small town day for groceries. I have some extra budget money this time, so I'm planning a big haul. I said I wasn't going to add anything else to our food storage, but I can't seem to help myself, LOL, especially, if I see some good deals. I'll worry about where I'm going to put it, once I get it here. I've emptied some more plastic mixed nut jugs that I save from Sam's, and rice will fill those back up.
Tuesday will be another canning day. I'm going to finish filling up the case of pints I'm working out of, and that's it for ground beef. I don't want the texture to go bad, before we eat it all. No sense in canning more than what we can eat, before it does that. I'll leave the rest in the freezers, and can it as we eat what I have canned already down some. We eat a case, I'll can another case, etc. I can actually see to the bottom of my old freezer in a spot now that I've canned all this meat. It won't take much longer to empty it out. Cary is fussing, cause I want to unplug it, but I don't trust it. Told him I would keep a few frozen items in it, but it will never be full of meat again. If nothing else, I'll fill it with bottles of water for ice, along with more cornmeal and flour. At least those won't ruin if it stops. I keep it all in freezer storage bags.
Thank you, Moldy; and those who put in sad smileys re possible covid. I've had the crap before; supposedly Omicron; it was like a bad head cold. Neighbor lady said she had a bad headache and felt lousy. Here is what gets me - I work in a hospital, doing direct patient care. So, trying to be proactive since I'm scheduled to work Monday night, I called the NHO (nursing house officer) to see if she wanted me to pop in to the ED for a test (no rapid tests available at the walk-in clinic) and she told me no, to call Occupational Health on Monday. Monday. What. The. Heck. Okay, well, I have to test weekly on Monday or Wednesday anyway; and by the time someone in Occ Health answers the phone, it's possible that testing run may already be over - which means I'll either have to call them from the dang parking lot, or maybe get tested in Occ Health, or go to the 2 to 4 pm testing, which means minimal sleep before my shift that night. I'm just wondering what they'd have told me to do if I was supposed to work tonight... 