Coping with Summer

Summer has arrived.

Here it doesn't arrive like other places, with hot sunny days and baby birds. Here it arrived on a Thundercloud, so it can stifle the city with heat and humidity. As I write this it is 90 degrees, 30 percent humidity and not a bit of sky to be seen. And June is the 'nice' month.

Matt and I decided that, in the favor of marital bliss, we should buy another AC unit. We had 2, a noisy but ineffective one for the huge living room, and a small quiet one in the bed room. This makes sleeping ok, but doing anything in the rest of the house (like conversing) really irritating. The purchase of the new AC means we are going to take this seriously- set up a system of fans to move the gross air away, close off spaces we don't use, and figure out which appliances we can still use. I'll keep you updated.

The upside of summer, is that my farmshare is back. This year the the system has been really updated, so I can order ala carte items in addition to my vegetable subscription, and it actually gets delivered to our break room. Farmer friendly places like Austin probably have programs like this too... This week, the vegetable box included enough leafy greens that I bought a salad spinner, and two items I need help with. I got a bunch of rosemary (yum!) and a bunch of radishes (eh). I can't think of anything to do with rosemary that doesn't require the oven to be on a long time, and I am not sure I like radish enough to just eat that many. Thoughts?