There is a large 'garden' store here called Gamm Vert, which you would think would have lots of good plants, just looking at them from the parking lot...but most of them are nearly dead, the trees are sad and forgotten, and we cannot for the life of us think how or why the store doesnt care??? Why? We can only surmise that the growers are the ones that suffers financially when nobody takes care of them in -store. Something needs to change, but I dont know how to rant in French...yet!
Today I bought two orchids. I wasn't going to...dont really need to spend the money right now, yada yada...and while Waz was off buying something essential, I was buying non-essential plants! Sigh!
Cant help some people, but you know....they smell great!! Relly!
The yellow one smells faintly of cinnamon, and the orange one smells like...well, orange blossom!:)
The orange one had not been watered and was in dire straits. The yellow one, on the other hand had been watered from the top and was sopping! You should only water orchids from the bottom. Give them plenty of time to soak up moisture from their roots.
I love the small Oncidiums. They make great house plants, are plentiful of bloom and small enough not to get in the way. They are also colorful and smell good.
We slept better last night, after a shockingly hot day. It was amazing how it suddenly became much cooler around 11pm, and even though the fan was on full blast mode, the fresh air coming in the open window was cooler than the previous night when our sleep was very disturbed due to the heat.
Looking out the window this morning we saw plenty of haze, no bright blue sky and some cloud. We knew there was a change coming and welcomed it.
Looking at the view as the sun was not quite above the trees, it is still cool, at 22C, around 7.15am.
I was still in my PJ's as I raced around the house this morning, opening all the windows and doors, and reveling in the cool. There was a stiff breeze blowing and some banging as the shutters I had flung open were not secured. The wind rushed through every open portal and anything not secured went flying, lol. The wind was coming from the south, strangely, so those windows were closed and the others stayed open with a more moderate air-flow.
North eastern France is going to have a huge change in temperature tomorrow, and they are predicting some hail in some areas. We aren't included in that area, but we can expect showers. I will let you know how that goes.
We feel we should be outside making the most of the cooler day, but it is still over 30C out there right now and Waz is now taking his siesta, so I guess it will wait for later in the day.
Doing a small shop for food was essential, but we wished we hadn't as the supermarket was a mad house. Obviously the entire population had been lying low in the extreme conditions and decided today was a good day to replenish supplies. We needed to get some hardware supplies...hence the rant about the plants. I had better not go into the plant dept. of Brico Marche again, or I will cry at the state of the plants. I need a job caring for them, I think.
We had to get some Calcium and Magnesium for our tomato plants which have flower end rot. This is due to a lack of calcium apparently. They taste good though!
At the supermarket we were delighted to find our favorite Pork Ribs on special still. We bought three packs last time and so enjoyed them that we bought three more packs today. 2 are in the freezer, and one is going on the grill tonight, for dinner. They are so well priced at 5,90 euros per kilo. These are the BEST ribs we have eaten anywhere. I lightly oil them with my favorite walnut oil and salt them well. Let them stand at room temperature and then bar-b-q. They are so meaty and juicy. Waz does a fab. job of cooking them perfectly.
Time for me to go upstairs again and attack another box of photos and memorabilia. I will take a bottle of water and turn the fan on again.
We took a car load of cardboard boxes to the very busy recycling place this morning. Slowly getting rid of the packing debris. Which reminds me...I need to advertise some of it on one of the local sales sites. We would otherwise have to cut it all into small enough pieces and put in the trash, and we dont want to do that. Plastic is involved!
We cant wait for France to NOT be on vacation. Every business we want to go to is closed for part of August. It is pointless making plans for anything this month, so roll on September.
I have to say we are definitely looking forward to the Fall weather and making plans to visit another city in Europe some time then. We want to put train travel to the test. Will let you know what we decide when we have decided!!:)
Bye for now...work awaits!
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