June 1st Through June 7th 2008

June 1st: Temp: 81 high/62 low: Worked on June 1st in the evening. Already hot. How do the seasons work now? I thought June was the nice temps until the hot temps came in July and August. It seems as though the months are having really strange things going on. Remember the poem: April Showers bring May Flowers? Well, this April we were getting winds like crazy (which would have been like March) and May was rain, rain, rain (like April) so then June comes around at it is like July! What ever happened to the nice weather, to sort of transition you into the summer? Well, I guess climate change is really happening. (I am going to put the temp numbers in, kind of like a running record, to see how it changes...on www.Weather.com you can see past temps up to a week before - pretty cool!)

So I worked on June 1st, we spent the day reading and having some fun, mostly in the camper. I am reading a couple of books at the same time, Sasha reads one at a time. Of course, when you see the books that I read, it is understandable that I read a couple of different ones.

June 2nd: Temp 79 hi/50 low. I got into my head how cool it would be to garden, which is why you see the two Square Foot Gardening books. If I could just do that it would be great. I cleared off the patio before work, cleaning off the stuff from the trees and really wiping everything down.

This was after I cleaned the camper (spring cleaning - better late than never!) We seem to be getting ants yet again. I found out these were sugar ants, really small and very vigilante. They just keep coming no matter how many times I clean the counters and use the bleach. But I keep trying. 

So I wiped down the counters, the window sills, the walls with a bleach solution, washed the gunk behind the kitchen sink, washed the dish rack (it does not get as red as when we were at Prince William, the water must have less particles in it.) I then washed the wet bath thoroughly including behind the toilet (ugh! how can there be dust behind the toilet - some things I just do not understand?)  We do not use the wet bath for showers, as the private campground that we are staying at has really nice bathrooms with more room. I suppose if we had a bigger bathroom we might use it.

I vacuumed the camper after dusting everywhere. We have a small vacuum, a hand held one really, as we do not have a big floor area, and then I hand wiped/mopped the floor. I then moved to the outside.

I guess it was a good thing that I cleaned this day, as it was not too hot. We had gotten a lot of stuff from the trees onto the little patio here, so I moved the picnic table, our chairs and folding table and our outdoor mat - which was still wet from the rains of May and gave the patio a good wiping off. Of course, I'm sure that the trees will still have some stuff on them, and people do come around and mow this campground, so I will continually have to wipe down the patio, but that is not too bad a thing.

I set out the outdoor mat onto the picnic table so that it could dry out - as well as the two small mats that we have to wipe our feet. I then got the metal stairs to go into the camper away from the camper so that I could clean it out. It has lots of nooks and crannies for the tree stuff to hide, so I cleaned them out as well. We also have to contend with the birds around here, and I do not want any birds nesting in our steps. I have seen birds nesting in people's 5th wheels so I am trying to keep the area around our camper clean.   

By the time I got all of that done, it was time to have lunch and then get to work.

June 3rd: Temp 83 hi/54 low - Glad I had cleaned the day before, as it is starting to get warm. Have to work this day, so I need to go berry picking before work. As Sasha has the Saturn Ion, I will need to take the truck. Since the truck has hardly any diesel in it, I need to make a stop at Flying J. I called around to some of the other places that sell diesel, but they are much higher than the Flying J, so I decided that it would be best if I went there. Diesel is OUCH - $4.58 a gallon, but that is 20¢ less than anywhere else.

So I went to Cline's Farm for pick your own berries. I did not know the "procedure" and so found a container and started picking. It seems that you have to go to the house first, get a box, and they tell you where to pick. But I did not know, and just started in one area and picked a bunch. Their prices are the same as the farm in Berryville, $1.80 a pound. I picked a few pounds worth, went up to the house and paid.

Went to the farmers market and picked up radishes and spring onions (even though it is not really spring anymore!)

Sasha got fed up with the Hard Drives not coming in (something about a back order,) so he cancelled with one place and ordered again with Buy.com and Amazon.com

June 4th: Temp 80 hi/64 low - But very freaky day, tornado watch and severe storms - put some people without power all over the DC metro region! Thankfully we did not have anything here at the campground. I did do some serious swimming, going to try to do that every day if possible, at least in the mornings when I work in the afternoons.

June 5th: Temp 88 hi/62 low - beginning the rise in temps! I had off this day, so I went in with Sasha. I went to Wegmans and Whole Foods to buy food for us for the week/two weeks. Got some fun food for Sasha and I to have at his office and for him for work. We stayed late and did not get home until around 11 pm.

June 6th: Temp 89 hi/68 low - Getting hotter. Stephanie Miles Birthday - Happy Birthday to You! Took a swim before having to go into work. This weekend is not too busy because I think, the gas prices but also it is a couple of weekends after Memorial Day weekend. Not all the kids are out of school yet so people are not traveling yet. At least that is what I think.

June 7th: Temp 97 hi/73 low WHAT IS GOING ON! OK, it is really hot out. They are saying that there is a heat wave going on at the Eastern Seaboard. So everyone is experiencing this hot weather. That does not mean that we like it. How is a garden supposed to be fun if it is so hot it wilts the plants? Thankfully for me, I work in the mornings on Saturday.

Sasha took the Truck into the shop for the 5K mile oil tune-up. He had a coupon for $77 oil change, but when he came home the price was $116! OK -what is the deal? Supposedly with taxes and other some such nonsense, it was another $40? Scary to think what it would be without the coupon.

After work, Sasha and I enjoyed the pool with one of my co-workers. We stayed in there until 5 or 6 pm. It was very nice.

Check out the next week, June 8th through June 15th.