{"id":15998,"date":"2015-06-25T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15998"},"modified":"2015-06-25T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T23:01:39","slug":"wake-me-up-when-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2015\/06\/wake-me-up-when-its-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake me up when it’s over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is VERY rare to see the NOAA “HOT” icons in my (Northwest Montana) forecast…<\/p>\n

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Holy cannoli!! <\/p>\n

So, I am a bit hopeful that since NOAA has made such a BIG deal about this forecast…that like Winter Storm forecasts…the bigger the deal, the greater they are likely to fizzle … this is one forecast, I seriously hope is WRONG.<\/p>\n

To help that along, I have gone overboard on preparation. My thinking is that if I have prepared to the max, then via Murphy’s Law, the max will not happen…<\/p>\n

So yesterday (Wednesday), I went to the grocery store and bought like a Winter storm was forecast. I bought fruit and veg and meat and all manner of supplies so that I could hunker down and wait out the heat wave.<\/p>\n

I have roast, shredded chicken in the freezer. <\/p>\n

I have turkey meatballs in the freezer. And bread and rolls and hot dogs and cooked sausage and cooked bacon. And salmon and halibut. I have canned salmon and canned tuna.<\/p>\n

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I pickled a mix of onion\/cucumber\/radish, I made a veggie-chicken broth, cold brew coffee, cranberry salsa and pickled jalapeno. <\/p>\n

You might think the broth is a bit of a head scratcher, but a brothy soup with a bit of whatever else…it can be a light meal on a hot day…especially with a bit of that chicken or a couple of turkey meatballs!.<\/p>\n

Foodwise, I am ready for good meals that do not require the stove or the oven.<\/p>\n

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Example: cold, roasted garlic broccolini with hard boiled egg for breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Bear and Auggie practice staying in the shade…<\/p>\n

Last night, it clouded over which meant that it stayed warm overnight. Fortunately, it stayed cloudy this morning so took longer to heat up.<\/p>\n

But, it did heat up … to 92F.<\/p>\n

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The chairs said they were glad to be in the shade.<\/p>\n

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The A\/C is on in Wild Thing. She is our backup if I can’t keep the house cool enough.<\/p>\n

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The first day of HOT and Auggie headed for the cool of the porcelain.<\/p>\n

WHAT??? I keep it clean :) <\/p>\n

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Wake us all up when it’s over…we do NOT LIKE the HEAT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is VERY rare to see the NOAA “HOT” icons in my (Northwest Montana) forecast… Holy cannoli!! So, I am a bit hopeful that since NOAA has made such a BIG deal about this forecast…that like Winter Storm forecasts…the bigger the deal, the greater they are likely to fizzle … this is one forecast, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-pets","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16002,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}