Last Sunday the temperature didn't even get up to 60 degrees and then yesterday it was over 90. The weather up here in the Northwest always keeps us on our toes. It usually does stay below 80 in the summer so very few homes have any kind of cooling system. We have a few window air conditioners that have been helpful through the years.
We put the window air conditioner in the living room last night. The hydrangeas had grown so tall during the last year that we had to do some pruning to make room for it. So now I have a pretty bouquet on the table. We moved the birds in front of the fireplace, they'll miss the window but it's better than the stair landing where they had been living. And they'll be cooler too.
Hydrangeas are mostly blue up here because of the acid soil. The ones in the alkaline soils of my hometown are all pink. We bought a pink one to plant up here once, the first year it was purple and since then it has been blue too. The ones I trimmed are supposed to be blue they are Nikko Blue Hydrangeas and are one of my favorite flowers.
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