Oh yes, I love the air conditioning in the morning. It hit 100 in downtown Athens yesterday, and today is predicted to be the same. Ray and I spent an hour sitting at the Democrats' table at Athfest. There were lots of people there, although I think the heat cut into attendance some. There were people there with their small children, pink-skinned, hair plastered to their heads. There were children's activities, like the bouncy thing they do in harnesses. I do not know what parents are thinking! Probably I was just as bad...but it is one thing to fry yourself in 100 degree weather to listen to music, but please be responsible adults when it comes to your kids!

Disaster struck--when I went out to do some work in the garden yesterday morning, the deer had broken down the netting and eaten every beautiful almost-ripe peach, as well as breaking the branches and eating a lot of the leaves. They never touched in until the smell of the ripening peaches attracted them, I guess. I think if we put a fence around the trees and keep Zoe in there, they will stay away. Ray and I went and looked at fencing--it would be over $200 and I am not sure he and I are skilled enough to put up a really tall fence. And it is too hot anyway.

We had been planning to go to Miller Blueberries and pick yesterday morning (early, before the heat), but when I called, they have run out of ripe berries and are waiting a few days. I think the lack of rain may be a factor. We have had several dozen berries from our six bushes and enjoyed them. I am sure we will have plenty in years to come, a lovely thought.

The four of us went to a UUFA fondue party at Stacy and Toni's house starting at 6. It was in the garage and back yard and it was something of a disappointment. The food was good. We had to pay $7 per person for meat (chicken, beef, shrimp) and we brought different vegetables. However, there were 2 pots of broth and two of oil. I guess some people were concerned about the healthiness of cooking things in boiling oil. Well, you can imagine that sticking a vegetable in a pot of boiling vegetable broth does not cook it right away. Some of the pots took a long time to heat up. They were all electric, unlike the kind we used to use, with sterno. And there were probably 40 people milling around, trying to spear pieces of food and cook them. So it took a long time. Also, they had cut some of the meat up too small. Then there were fruits and pound cake with chocolate fondue--yum! We enjoyed the people and the setting, but it was way too hot and buggy to eat fondue outdoors. So, it was a mixed evening. Naturally, we came up with lots of ways we could do it better next time. Maybe 6 or 8 to a fondue pot--?

I also got some very negative feedback from my professor and have to redo my course plan. Sara Ruth and I are meeting today and hopefully figuring it out.