random thoughts – Day 1,643 – (Monday) – summer threads

The beautiful sunshiny summer weather and temperatures in the 80s are hanging in there, for another day or two anyway, before it's back to the 60s. There hasn’t been any rain for a few days and yesterday I had to water the flowers. I can’t remember them looking so parched this summer. This morning the petunias, dahlia, and the new red one and the purple one which I can’t recall the names of looked much perkier than yesterday when they were all keeling over in the blazing sunshine.

Clinging to summer.

The beautiful weather today had me wearing summer linen and cotton gauze and clinging to the threads of summer tonight. One of the last two Luigi’s Italian ice cups was pulled from the freezer. The blue one, whatever that flavor is. That just leaves a lemon one. A half hour after eating the ice, the blue color had finally left my tongue, probably due to the help of a big glass of water.

The summer of Italian ice cups will soon transition to the fall and winter of soup containers. There are enough onion skins and ends, broccoli stems, and carrot bits accumulated in the freezer over the summer to start the first vegetable broth. It feels like the perfect project for a chilly weekend. 

It won’t be too long before the stove is once again regularly hosting simmering pots of soup and the oven is roasting vegetables. Many people look forward to fall for the pumpkin spice everything, but I like it for the oven-roasted veggies, baked casseroles, and quiches, all the lunches they generate.