Still very hot and dry. We set up the sprinkler in the main garden yesterday evening. A couple of our tomato plants are dead and I'm not seeing any new blossoms. Still lots of peppers and a few eggplants. And the herbs are great. The hens are laying again--yay!

I spent a couple hours at the Land Trust putting labels on postcards. They apparently don't have a bulk mail permit and are putting stamps on over 600 cards. I was supposed to meet my editor at noon for lunch, but she called 10 minutes before and said her babysitter had cancelled. I hadn't brought any food, but there was plenty at home, so I went on home. We drove the truck yesterday so we could pick up the lawnmower. At 2:30, I went back to get Ray and we went to Riverside Mowing and got it. When we got back to Kenney Ridge, I went to the Community Center and put away the clean dishes from the night before. The building is lovely and I wandered around, checking to make sure it was clean. It is very light, with lots of windows.

My parents had brought us 6 ears of corn, picked Thursday, so we should have eaten them Thursday. We cooked them about 4 on Friday and they were delicious. I meant to freeze some, but we ate them all, along with some tomatoes and mozzarella. I was going to make chard omelets, but it was too hot to pick the chard! We weren't very hungry either and debated what else we should eat.

We picked up Janna's sister, Dani, at 7, and then my parents. Except my Dad has a cold and decided to stay home. We saw Blue Angel, a very old black and white movie, where Marlene Dietrich sings, "Falling in love again..." in German, with English subtitles. The differences with movies today were very interesting. The cinematography and editing were quite basic. I liked the historic information: the cabaret was dark and crowded and not very enticing. Marlene was very cute, not as I had thought of her, but mannish and brassy. We enjoyed it. I had a drink and we split a somewhat stale oatmeal raisin cookie. We took people home and went to bed.

The AC is running full tilt and I seem to have lots of things to get done that I don't feel like doing: laundry, cleaning, cooking, gardening.