It’s time

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Follow the link for recipe and commentary. You will not be disappointed. Nothing like a salad of Spicy Frozen Cucumbers on a yucky winter day.

Recipe: Spicy Frozen Cucumbers | You could set your calendar by it!

But it’s a dry heat

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The good news is the humidity is only 46%, and the temperature is only 99.9 100 making the heat index only 111. This is considerably better than last week, and the week before. No complaints.

The model is still forecasting pretty high temperatures for later in the week.

108 will be interesting if it does happen.

Happy Summer!

& Co.

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See the fellow on the right in the blue-green tie dye? That’s Oteil Burbridge of Dead & Company, a band consisting of former Grateful Dead band members and a few new fellows. Next to Oteil are Bob Weir and Mickey Hart.

The text I received from Miss M last week said, “Bob Weir is touching a shirt I dyed.”

That’s right! The tie dye Oteil is sporting is from Dyed & Company! As is all tie dye from Dyed & Co., it’s custom made. More Oteil-inspired (and coastal Carolina-inspired) apparel and home goods at

dyedandco.com

Father’s Day–June 18, 1972

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The Heart of a Father. Mary W. Lightfoot (compiled by). The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland. 1970

These sorts of findings are unsettling. Earlier in 1972, Bill and Mary had given their mother Far Above Rubies: My Mother. The maturity of the handwriting suggests that Mary, at least, was probably in her teens or older. The books themselves are in very good condition. Based on their entries in my card catalog, I must have gotten them at the Friends of Library Book Sale (in 2013). At that time, it was not at all uncommon for people to donate loved ones’ (there’s an assumption), or one’s own library to the FOL. So we might concoct any number of stories about how these two books of Bill and Mary’s parents’ came to be on a shelf of poetry in my den. I’m sorry to say that I cannot come up with a happy tale.

“Pitch them in the library pile…

  • obviously they meant nothing to Mom or Dad, neither of them even cracked the books open.”
  • I don’t want them. Do you, Bill?”
  • we don’t have room for sentimental stuff in our room at the retirement home.”
  • I don’t even know why they thought we’d like crap like this.”

And on that bright note, Happy Father’s Day!