I wish you could have some of our incessant rain; I know you need some down there and I would gladly swap 2 – 3 days of rain for some of your high temps. I’ve honestly not seen the sun since Wednesday and that was just a brief bit of light before another 18-hour drenching.

If I’d known, I would have sent you our summer weeks ago. I took a screen shot from WeatherUnderground last week showing our heat index a toasty 132 degrees. We’ve had so many days in the hundreds that 85 feels like fall. And, I learned something new and important – one symptom of dehydration can be vertigo. At least it’s easily cured!

Anyhow, we’ve got good, vine-ripened local melons available now, along with peaches and plums, so it’s time to make use of them. This looks like a good way to do it.
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I’ve always had a Cuis but never had a blender till just a few years ago and what a bargain I got. It’s an Osterizer, probably from the Seventies or Eighties — it’s harvest gold *cough* — and built like a tank. All metal, except for the buttons & decorative front, with a heavy glass jar. Anyway, it was filthy and only $2. I bought it, cleaned it up, bought an Oster replacement kit with a new lid and blade/screw-on part for $10 and voila, I have a $12 blender that runs rings around anything new at 10x the price. I stopped at another yard sale just Saturday and there was a jar & lid for a KitchenAid blender. I asked about the base and was told it cracked when she dropped it. If I dropped my base it would be fine but would crack a floor tile. (Sorry for going on, but I do love a bargain!)

Your summer sounds warmer than ours. I’ve worn light sweaters almost constantly and vegetable gardens are rotting from the rain. It just rains and rains. Mark Twain was right….

Something I don’t know is can one use a food processor instead of a blender to chop ice? Or would my cuisinart die trying?

I have actually been enjoying this “year without summer.” We had a week or so in June of high humidity and high temperatures when I couldn’t think straight, but since then the weather has been mostly warm and pleasant. Though I admit there has been a lot of rain, and I was cold enough last night to want a blanket on the bed with the window open…
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