{"id":1379,"date":"2006-08-04T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:42:15","slug":"scorched-baked-and-parched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Scorched, baked, and parched"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Too many of my container plants look like this one. The heat of the last week has been too much for them, despite my morning and evening watering routine. I’m embarassed even to post a photo of the pot of nasturtiums that was so pretty a month ago; it has long since given up the ghost. The geraniums are happy, though. So are the flowering maple trees and the angel trumpets. Anything in a small pot is toast.<\/span>
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This heatwave is supposed to break tonight with a *cold front* moving through from the west. Forecasts for tomorrow promise highs in the upper 80’s, rather than the 100 degree temps we’ve had since Tuesday. Hopefully the humidity will go down; the heat index the last few days was between 110 and 115 degrees! Entirely too hot for the likes of me. I feel like I’m living in a cave, with the shades drawn and all the windows closed to keep the heat out. I’ve even been working in the near dark at my job – we’ve had all non-essential lights and appliances off for the last few days in an effort to conserve energy. Ridiculous considering that the AC keeps the building so cold that I have to sit at my desk with a blanket over my shoulders. Today I decided to do a little energy conserving of my own and took the afternoon off and came home and went to sleep, in hopes of gettiing rid of the headache I’ve had for the last 3 days.<\/span>
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The promised thunderstorms haven’t come yet. While I was out watering this evening and adding some frigid well water to the pond (the fish haven’t boiled yet – what were we thinking putting that pond in full sun?) there were some distant rumblings of thunder and a light hot breeze, but that’s it so far. I’m hoping for a spectacular thunderstorm with drenching rain. I want to be able to turn off the AC, open the windows, and fall asleep listening to the katydids and crickets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too many of my container plants look like this one. The heat of the last week has been too much for them, despite my morning and evening watering routine. I’m embarassed even to post a photo of the pot of nasturtiums that was so pretty a month ago; it has long since given up the … Continue reading Scorched, baked, and parched<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}