Doing: Whinging about the humidity. DH had to mow the lawn with the petrol mower - with all this rain and hot days lately, the grass virtually grows while you are looking at it (bit the like the zucchinis, really). Spraying the zucchini and cucumbers with sulphur spray to (hopefully) stave off fungal disease, but having another shower of rain come through later in the day and wash it off. Sigh.
Making: Wholemeal bread.
Dinner: Free-range ham and salad with fresh bread.
Challenge/s: Dealing with washing that won't completely dry because of the humidity (and smells bad after a day or so of hanging on the line).
Solution/s: Does anyone living in the tropics have any suggestions?! I've been hanging it around the house after I take it off the outside line, but that doesn't work so well for big items like sheets, or heavy denim jeans (which I have been sticking in the clothes drier to finish off... *ahem*) .
Reading: Off-topic (alternative) parenting books: yuck weather + all kids at home = frazzled mum.
Contemplating: Polly's suggestion of coffee-flavoured ice cream :-)
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You won't regret it Julie. I'm thinking of adding some chopped pecans next time I make it. :-)
I'm hoping to pick some strawberries at an organic cherry farm next week so strawberry ice cream will be on the menu here soon. Oh and strawberry jam too if the strabs are cheap enough.
I don't envy you the problem with the washing. I remember my SIL in Queensland complaining about the same thing.
What on earth are strabs? LOL I meant strawbs or strawberries. :-)
I wish I had an answer for dealing with the humidity ~ I much prefer the dry hot heat of WA where we moved from.....
I'm getting totally weirded out by the weather here in Melbourne.
This time last year, I was throwing mulch down a foot thick under our tree ferns, because the earth was like dust. We lost two anyway (they were over 10 years old and well-established). I cried. We also mulched over what was left of the back lawn. No rain. I was heavily pregnant, and I couldn't sleep. I'd go walking at night, to the sound of whirring airconditioners, and wondering what hellworld I was bringing my daughter into.
This year we're getting tropical downpours, but are still on 3a water restrictions. The tree ferns are growing like mad, and have dobled in size. We planted a new lawn (because we're readying to sell) and 15 new native bushes, and everything is lush and gorgeous - we could put our garden in a magazine! Yet still I worry.
Our next home we'll be growing a food forest and doing our best to be as self-reliant as possible, including our own tanks for 100% of our water.
But I worry so much about the world. Having kids does that to you, I expect. But even if I didn't have kids, I'd be worrying for the earth right now. I wish I could do more, but one person is so small.
Still, I'll do what I can and a little bit more.
I finish drying my washing in the house on days like today where a storm is brewing (SE Qld). If the humidity is really high, I put the pedestal fan on, where it turns from side to side to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
Oh, and for the big items I'm grateful to have a four poster bed ;-). I hang everything over the top and it works a treat.
Plus our house is a Queenslander so it is nice and high up off the ground on stumps and we get a good cross breeze through.
Shell.
Can't ofer any washing tips, I grew up in Darwin - but given how hot it was most days the washing dried in the sun very quickly, and we never seemed to have damp problems. I know my sister doesn't have a drier (she still lives up there) perhpas it could go on a clothes horse so you could put it out in the sun when it is shining - I used to do it in Melbourne when I had cloth nappies - I remember a book calling it "chasing sunshine".
Ooooh yum Polly! Coffee and pecans... I'm drooling. Pity I've only got walnuts in the cupboard, they wouldn't be quite the same.
Hi Ali, yep the humidity has me stumped...
Hi Daharja, I know it's just bizzare weather isn't it? And I know what you mean about worrying, I suffer from insomnia (caused by a medical condition) and in the middle of the night I frequently think dark thoughts about what kind of future my kids will have...
Hi Shell, sticking the clothes on hoists under the ceiling fans seems to be the only thing that helps with the smaller stuff. I'm starting to think a Queenslander would be nice down this far south too at the moment!
Hi Lis, yes that's pretty much what I'm doing, but it takes a couple of days because it's been overcast (hence the humidity). Blerck!
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