{"id":16875,"date":"2016-06-06T18:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2016-06-06T18:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T00:09:41","slug":"too-hot-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2016\/06\/too-hot-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Too hot for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far we are staying a few degrees less than the forecast high, but today hit 90F about 4:30.  That is about 20 degrees higher than normal and higher than Bear, Auggie and I like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4378.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4378.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early morning is the time to be outside and shortly after 5:00 a.m., I had sprinklers going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4405.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4405.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then a morning walk at 6:00 a.m. &#8211; sunrise is just after 5:30 a.m. and there is light in the sky at 4:30.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4412.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4412.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short nights as we approach the Summer Equinox are part of the problem with hot weather now.  Sunset is after 9:30 with light in the sky until nearly 11:00 p.m.  There is plenty of time for things to heat up in the daytime and not so much time for cooling overnight.  We started this morning at 58F.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4416.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4416.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; yes, the behemoth A\/C unit.  It is to be in the low 70&#8217;s and even as cool as the upper 60&#8217;s by the weekend but we have another 3 days of 90 or near 90 so it was worth the setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4419.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4419.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mid-winter I bought an Instant Pot electric pressure cooker: <a title=\"Not my Grandma\u2019s pressure cooker\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=16631\" target=\" Not my Grandma\u2019s pressure cooker\"><font color=\"#424ff1\"> Not my Grandma\u2019s pressure cooker<\/font><\/a>.  After using it several times and seeing how things went, I got to thinking that I would really appreciate it when it got hot.  With the exception of a little steam as it is coming to pressure and a bit of residual heat when cooking is done, there is not a lot of heat generated into the kitchen.  This morning, it was already getting warm when I thought about cooking some pasta for pasta salad.  I dithered a bit thinking that the pasta would just be mush in the pressure cooker, but finally gave it a try:  1 part pasta, 2 parts salty water, 7 minutes and quick release.  The macaroni was perfect: taste and texture.  I had a refreshing pasta salad for lunch!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4425.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun16\/Cool4425.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afternoon outside time &#8211; everyone in the shade &#8211; too HOT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far we are staying a few degrees less than the forecast high, but today hit 90F about 4:30. That is about 20 degrees higher than normal and higher than Bear, Auggie and I like. Early morning is the time to be outside and shortly after 5:00 a.m., I had sprinklers going. Then a morning [&hellip;]<\/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-16875","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\/16875","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=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}