It's been nice and cool in the mornings; we've had the windows open at night, even though it makes it a little damp in the house. Still in the 90s at the middle of the day and still incredibly dry. It now looks like Hurricane Irene will not bring us any rain, although that could change.

So I dumped water from the barrels on various parts of the garden, and I'll do it again this morning. It might be enough to keep things alive, although they won't thrive. thank goodness for sweet potatoes, they seem to be perfectly happy with no water. I'm not sure how that can be--perhaps the tubers will be smaller and not as tasty.

I discovered an invasion of green tomato hornworms earlier this week. It's hard to imagine that I didn't see them before. They were eating the tomato fruits, as well as all the leaves, but they were well camouflaged. Once I started seeing them, I picked off about a dozen, each several inches long. Instead of squishing them (gross), I fed them to the chickens, who fought over them. So we are turning tomatoes into eggs.

We made another batch of cookies for today's geology symposium, since it was cool enough to bake early in the day. And I mixed up some tabouli to chill for potluck.

Nothing too interesting at the Land Trust and my tentative lunch date did not work out, so I came home after a couple hours. I ate lunch (leftover grilled chicken, wrapped in a tortilla with some lettuce, mayonnaise and tarragon. And a little bit of the pesto that my parents had made a couple months ago). I spent a couple hours on the computer and then went to meet Ray at the bus.

Added a few things to the tabouli (tomato, pepper, cucumber) and headed to potluck. Choir went well. Watched a couple shows and were in bed just after 10.