(no subject)
Saturday, June 13th, 2026 10:16 pmAnother hot blowy day. Played clothesline bingo, got several tanktops and sleep bottoms out to dry/ bleach in the hot hot sun, and lost a tanktop and a shirt to the birds, not the cherries. The cherries themselves are beginning to both ripen and fall so that's it for clotheslines until maybe a month from now. Underwear of course is hanging from the living room chandelier and drying in the living room fan.
It felt hotter than yesterday, which is probably the difference between going outside at noon like today, and 4 pm like yesterday. But what I wanted was a Johnson cocktail-- that's gin, dry vermouth and sweet vermouth-- and I didn't want to go out to buy the fixings. So I put in an order with UberEats and all was tickety-boo until the very end when they wanted me to take a photo of my ID, take a photo of myself, and upload both. Previously it's been the delivery guy who photo'd my ID and in each case had extreme difficulty in so doing, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't manage it either. So hell, let's try SkipTheDishes, even if I keep having to correct my address with them. They said the Dupont LCBO has gin and sweet vermouth but no dry; the Bathurst outlet has gin and dry vermouth but no sweet. Uber said they could get both. Yeah, and both Skip and Uber's interface lagged like a lagging thing. The hell with it, I said, and closed the browser. Johnson cocktail erases the owies better than anything but my system really hates it, a fact I tried to ignore.
SNDs were out back gardening. He-SND was hacking away at the great overgrown clump of vines on the fence between our yards, with a battery operated trimmer and a manual hacksaw. And even with both those and a male's upper body strength was finding it hard going, so thick are the stems now. I have a bigger trimmer that might work but I've never used it in the seven years I've had it and discover that it needs some assembly. Also an outlet and extension cord, of course.
But tomorrow will be rain all day so no gardening happening. I slept with just the fan last night but am not sure that will work tonight: and I did keep waking up sweating. A modest hydro bill came in last week and I overpaid 300% so maybe I can afford the luxury of a window AC, especially since next week is forecast to be window fan cool at night.
It felt hotter than yesterday, which is probably the difference between going outside at noon like today, and 4 pm like yesterday. But what I wanted was a Johnson cocktail-- that's gin, dry vermouth and sweet vermouth-- and I didn't want to go out to buy the fixings. So I put in an order with UberEats and all was tickety-boo until the very end when they wanted me to take a photo of my ID, take a photo of myself, and upload both. Previously it's been the delivery guy who photo'd my ID and in each case had extreme difficulty in so doing, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't manage it either. So hell, let's try SkipTheDishes, even if I keep having to correct my address with them. They said the Dupont LCBO has gin and sweet vermouth but no dry; the Bathurst outlet has gin and dry vermouth but no sweet. Uber said they could get both. Yeah, and both Skip and Uber's interface lagged like a lagging thing. The hell with it, I said, and closed the browser. Johnson cocktail erases the owies better than anything but my system really hates it, a fact I tried to ignore.
SNDs were out back gardening. He-SND was hacking away at the great overgrown clump of vines on the fence between our yards, with a battery operated trimmer and a manual hacksaw. And even with both those and a male's upper body strength was finding it hard going, so thick are the stems now. I have a bigger trimmer that might work but I've never used it in the seven years I've had it and discover that it needs some assembly. Also an outlet and extension cord, of course.
But tomorrow will be rain all day so no gardening happening. I slept with just the fan last night but am not sure that will work tonight: and I did keep waking up sweating. A modest hydro bill came in last week and I overpaid 300% so maybe I can afford the luxury of a window AC, especially since next week is forecast to be window fan cool at night.
