97 degrees. No rain. We watered for hours. Our water bill is high.

I made a peach cake first thing in the morning, before it got too hot, from Joy of Cooking. It is more like a peach shortcake, made in one pan. You turn it out when it's done, and the cake is on the bottom with the peaches on top. The recipe said 2 cups or more peaches. We thought 3 was better and it probably was, but when Ray turned it out of the pan, hot peaches slid off and it made quite a mess. (It was very tasty and appreciated at dinner that evening, though.)

Ray and I went over to where there is a tree down and cut some more of it to bring home and split, because it will be cold again in a few months and we will need firewood. I just carried some of the smaller logs, pieces of branches that were surprisingly heavy, and rolled some of the big ones over to the truck for Ray to lift. My back is hurting today, even though I tried not to do anything hard.

I spent time at the computer after that, but tried to do some other things too. We watched Blade Runner, from 1982, with Harrison Ford, a very interesting dark futuristic movie, sort of a 40s-style noir detective story, with flying cars and tall buildings. Apparently it is dark and rainy all the time in the future. Maybe so. Especially interesting from a writing and cinematography point of view. The story is a little simplistic, and the acting...

We made some curried chicken and rice to freeze for later. I entered some old expenditures into Quicken and filed the receipts.

At six, we went to Rosemary's house for dinner. She had invited Shane and Allen and Chris and we had a pleasant time. Ray looked like he was falling asleep about 8:30, so I said we had to get home. I read a little bit, but slept pretty well until 5. Then I managed to get back to sleep and sleep some more. In my dream, our family (molli and amelia and Ray and I, I think) were buying someone's business--a restaurant with a wave pool in it, like Lake Lanier, except indoors...Not a good idea, imho. Dreams!