Its raining here, which is good. I hate spending money on water. (My father paid about $15 a year for city water which came from Lake Michigan. Here that would be a week or two depending on the weather.)
A lightening strike and power surge and my Battery/surge protector shut the computer down, although not the lights in the house. Restarted with no problems. Happy cukes! I suppose I should start some. Tomatoes are coming in. Picking at color break and ripening inside. I removed some larger suckers from my tomatoes about 5 days ago and stuck them in glass jars in water. They kicked out roots and I planted them just before the rain. (Used some of the 70-75 day varieties so hoping for some Indian Summer tomatoes.) The volunteer pumpkins are growing aggressively and will be happy. Same for the Sweet potatoes.
I picked the 2 pound Old German (or maybe Pineapple) slicing tomato and it ripened perfectly. I decided to celebrate by going and buying an excellent rosemary sourdough loaf (3 days fermenting before bake) and we had that, the tomato, and basil for lunch and dinner. Primo!
Alas tomato queen! Perhaps you will be able to salvage something after everything dries off!
The first two years we lived in MO were those heat wave years about 13 years ago with the second year being 105 - 110 for several weeks. It ended up that I found a two story house to tear down in exchange for me getting the wood so we got a 14' camper and moved to that house and spent the Summer tearing it down. AC in camper was useless until about 8pm and then would make it bearable for sleeping. We started at 6am and spent days under a carport after 1pm when it got too hot.
My wife and I ended up eating cherry tomatoes and seasoned Italian or French bread from walmart every single lunch for weeks. It was the only thing remotely appetizing to us. Too hot to eat anything heavier. Tomatoes were salted of course to replenish what we had sweated out and water was our beverage.
I threw out most of the weather injured Rutger's yesterday but ate the whole good one - with salt.
It's 6:30 now so I'm heading outdoors while it's cool. Been hanging out indoors for too long in the mornings. Guess I forgot the old hot weather working rules. I have another good tomato, salt and croissants that need nothing extra on them to eat and have plenty of Nestle Pure Life water so there's all morning beverage and lunch.