!Garden produce, heat, mosquitoes
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agk's diary 
25 July 2022 @ 16:30 UTC
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written on GPD Win 1 via puTTY & Unicomp keyboard
on 6th floor of College of Nursing after SIM lab
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I eat chard, onions, mint, and juicy tomatoes with 
morning eggs. Our countertop's buried under cucumb-
ers and yellow squash our daughter found under big 
squash leaves in my sponsor's garden. Crows didn't 
eat the corn this year. Sweat shines perpetually on 
our skin. Extraordinary abundance of beans await 
the pot.

The summer children's free lunch program advertised
on facebook and ran out two weeks ago. They didn't 
advertise on facebook but got more donations this 
week. We froze about 5 flats of blueberries and 
blackberries so far; ate about as many.

 To freeze fruit for smoothies and snacks
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 * Wash; spread on baking sheet, freeze.
 * You can dump each batch in a freezer bag once 
    the surface of the berries is frozen hard. 
 * This prevents clumping.

 To cool off
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 * Sit in shade, feet in turtle-shaped thing that's 
    supposed to be a sandbox but which you filled 
    with water. Watch toddler hypnotically fill and 
    dump a cup.
 * Drag box fan with extension cord outside for 
    breeze. Splash or spritz with spraybottle of 
    water to evaporative cool.
 * Drink seltzer, switchel (honey, dilute apple 
    cider vinegar, pinch of salt), lemonade, sweet 
    mint sun tea. Exclaim: Lord, it's hot.

Enjoy the watermelon, don't worry the ants.