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Parched!!!

Oh my God - it is hot and so dry dry dry that my lips have cracked, despite layering on my lip balm of choice, the miraculous Jing Jang Creme (olive, sesame, almond, lemon, lavender oils and vitamin E along with so many flower extracts I can't list them all. Great on the lips and a fantastic salve for garden hands). In weather like this, your sinuses get so dry it can be uncomfortable breathing in. And my throat feels like a mummy's. I've been drinking water like someone who lives in the desert. Now hold on, Los Angeles is a desert - all our water comes from snowpack in the High Sierras, hundreds of miles away. Doesn't something seem wrong about that? One big earthquake and the pumps and aqueducts could crumble and we'd be back at square one - LA as desert! My poor garden... it shouldn't have to deal with these ... these hotflashes from Mother Nature.
My bulbs came in from Old House Gardens, but who can plant in this weather? I might create a charge of static electricity with my trowel and start a brushfire. Can I possibly whine more? Forgive me, but like I said in an earlier post, the Santa Anas make people crazy. They seem to affect my dogs, too. Sadie has been spending the day stalking an invisible beast in my shade garden.