It's hot and humid today and the heatwave that threatens us hasn't even started yet. I have to get into my greenhouse to control my rampant tomatoes and the attendant weeds and I think I'll need a cold shower after that. Then I really must start picking the broad beans before they go "black in th' eye." The horseflies are having their best summer ever so it'll be out with the DEET spray (and the sun lotion on my balding pate).

I won't go over my opioid tale of woe again, but suffice to say the way they made me dependent (and shattered my confidence in just getting around) made for the worst few weeks of my life. They didn't even work after the first week or ten days.