I'm not sure what day this is of 100+ weather, maybe 6 or 7, but we have another week of it ahead of us. It really wears you out, especially if it becomes very humid during the day.

I gave 4.5 lbs of green tomatoes to a friend so he can make green tomato relish and we went to lunch today at a local little catfish restaurant that has a specialty condiment of green tomato relish. He's the same friend who took me over to Schlotzkys to try their little pesto pizza when I was inquiring about his use of pesto. I love it that he has this catalog of specialty little dishes (and these places are all quite reasonable. I think lunch today was about $6.50 each). I'm a convert - green tomato relish is a great way to preserve the remainder of the crop if you have to pick it all fast before the first frost of the season. (The tomatoes came off of a plant that was a volunteer and was in my way and leaning too hard on my precious eggplant shrubs. So I trimmed it out and picked all of the fruit for relish.)

I've been working on my air conditioner this evening. I had some leftover tubing from hooking up the ice maker on the fridge, so I cut a length of that to push as far down the air conditioner drain as I could, then I used a big equine-sized syringe (I use it in the garden) to fill with chlorine bleach and inject into the drain. Hopefully it will dissolve whatever algal growth is in there and it will clear out. I hate the fact that I actually had a little extra cash this month and the possible need for a plumber arises. If nothing else, their sewer snake worms its way into the wallet and empties the extra resources. Is there a gremlin that sets this up?

SRS