It was a hot and humid hike this morning but I guess it's gonna get a lot hotter before the cold front comes through this evening. A good afternoon to get the hose out and wash the screens and maybe the cars.

Yesterday was the first day I really felt hungry. I was keeping my calories down to allow for leftover rabbit and pasta at dinner and I wasn't burning many calories in exercise so I didn't have much room to negotiate. But I had the dinner to look forward to and it almost felt good to have such a keen sense of what was going on with my body.

I cooked my first harvest of rapini, other than the thinnings I've used in salads, and it's doing well this year. As the asparagus season draws to a close, the rapini and the chard become the veggies du jour. And so it goes...