Another American Adventure: the last hot day

Saturday, September 3, 2011

the last hot day

It may not yet be the end of summer, but I'm fairly sure that this is the last hot day. Well into the 90s today! Jubilee went for a swim over at Lucky Paws Resort ...

John tested out the new bike rack on the back of his car. Room for 2 bikes.

Last night we went out to eat with some of John's co-workers at a place called the "Winery" in Gibsonia PA (fun, fun people and a very popular place) ...

John wondered if the musician was a man or a woman. He was definitely Italian!

Most everyone was eating outside, though it was hot even after the sun went down.

Supposed to be somewhat less hot tomorrow and downright cool on Monday! Yeah!

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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.