10th day of the heatwave and more to come. It's now uncomfortably hot at night and midday it's scorching. We spent the last 4 days beside the sea. It's cooler but tiring being there all day, in and out of the sea. Today we are staying home and will spend the midday hours in an air conditioned room. I need to do some home work. Washing, cooking and a very little cleaning.
Every day the main mountain road is blocked by the Municipality. Only residents can move through the area. Beside us there is land full of long dry grass, we are right next to olive groves and only a stone's throw from acres of pine forest. There has been a steady breeze most days but today it's blowing a gale. The fire warnings are on red alert.
We took down our big sun umbrella. The wind was threatening to tear it to pieces. The washing I hung out dried in half an hour.
Fire fighting planes drone overhead several times a day either looking for fire or on their way to put one out.
WELCOME
POROS
ISLAND
Fried peppers from our garden
Plain or stuffed with feta cheese.
Cro, on his blog (Magnon's Meanderings) the other day, pictured his lunch plate with fried green peppers. His were padron peppers from Spain.
I picked some green papers from our garden and began frying some for us. It took 30 secs to remember why I don't fry peppers. They spit hot oil all over me and the kitchen. A minute later they were out of the frying pan, into a baking dish and in the oven. 15 minutes later and they were ready to eat. They had a thin coating of oil and all they needed was salt.
Both K and I preferred the ones without the feta. They were nice hot and later cold.
We ate them as-is although I thought of drizzling over some balsamic vinegar with honey.
A piece of watermelon skin
and a scarab beetle
K saw on Facebook a photo of a piece of watermelon skin with a bunch of scarab beetles feeding on it.
I thought maybe we could feed a few of them too. We always have a scarab beetle or two whirling round our heads in the evening. However, ours don't like watermelon. This one on the watermelon is actually dead and the brown spots are seeds from the peppers.
Scarab beetles land and overturn themselves. They are very fragile. I turned this one over so it could fly away but must have been a bit heavy handed. It never moved again.
Alas Poor Scarab
Today we have been advised there is a water shortage.
No washing of cars or watering gardens.
I shall give my pumpkins a little each day, using a watering can, not the hose.
For the rest it will be survival of the fittest