Not!
Well I am bare foot – to a degree. I am wearing
sandals. And I have been in the proverbial kitchen since early morning making apple
sauce, salmon pate, and chicken liver pate and preparing a cold summer dinner
for a neighbour who will be our guest this evening. And John has been chasing a
rabbit away from our morning glories, which have become a regular delicacy for
any number of young rabbits.
John also managed to capture a critter in our chipmunk live
trap this morning – a young skunk! Rather than risk driving it to a new home, with an old yardstick, he managed to prop up the gates
of the trap and encouraged the rather cute, timid creature to scurry away from its entrapment. This it happily did. In gratitude, no
spray was forthcoming. Past experiences with adult skunks have not been so fortunate.
Today, it is a glorious 28 Celsius, a little better than
yesterday’s 32 degrees. Even the thunderstorm that swept through in the late
afternoon did not cool it down much. It did produce a wonderful rainbow.
The current heat is quite different from just three days ago when we had the fire on in the
summer kitchen to stave off the chill.
However, it has been too hot for a long walk these past couple of
days. Nevertheless, I did manage to walk down the road to a neighbour’s farm late this morning to
return a pan. While there, I picked some beets, parsley and onion greens from
the vegetable garden, - upon her invitation. I returned home with my treasure at a leisurely
pace, walking next to a wall of corn. I had just finished stewing the beet
greens and cooking the beets when John came home from errands with another bag
of beets. But these will be his chore.
One can only take so much of a kitchen
on a lovely summer’s day.
