Tonight and tomorrow

It's the hottest day of the year (so far, and I'm really hoping it's the record; it's been hovering close to 100 F, and the humidity brings the effective temperatures well over 100), and tonight is Tisha B'Av, one of the two major (dusk to dusk) fasts of the Jewish calendar, commemorating all the bad things that have happened on this day through history (starting with destruction of the Temples, moving on through pogroms and the expulsion from Spain, and so on). It's a day of mourning. So from 8:03 tonight to 8:27 tomorrow, no food, no water, no bathing (also no anointing, no leather shoes, and no sex). Mentally, I always have a hard time with this fast; it's a lot easier to deal with the themes of Yom Kippur (repentance and forgiveness). Physically, it's always harder, too, being in the summer rather than the fall (I so wish it had ended up in the winter....). And this year there's the weather, too. Plus work currently involves a bunch of talking - not ideal.

If I start feeling really unwell, I'll consider drinking... but I'd like not to have to. I can stay late in the office tomorrow (though I don't really need the extra hours now), though not today (farm share pick up has already started, and there's a Boston Organics delivery languishing on my front steps). I'm dreading going out...

Farm share, week 9

So much stuff this week; I'm very glad I moved my car close by, because I was worried about the walk in the heat with the weight.

• two bunches of kale (I got lacinato.)
  
• twelve pickling cucumbers/summer squash (I split it between zukes and cukes.)
  
• a bunch of dill or parsley (I chose dill.)
  
• twenty new potatoes (I got red-skinned ones.)
  
• ten ears of corn
  
• a musk melon (like a cantaloupe, but with sections noticeable on the outside)
  
• ten tomatoes (including a yellow one! and some neat heirloom kind!)
  
• a head of lettuce (I got red leaf.)
  
• two peppers (I got an almost-white bell pepper, and a long pepper that's turning red.)
  
• an onion with greens
  
• a bunch of carrots with greens (I got purple ones!)
  
  
• fruit share: a pint of blueberries
  
• five peaches

And a ( Boston Organics delivery )

And now, I should eat something. Fast :-).