Jamming session

Got a basket of totally ripe peaches, so they had to be preserved quickly. For a total novice of jam making and even more totally novice handling peaches, I'm pretty satisfied with the results. 4 jars or organic and ecological jam with my own mint, lime and ginger. 2 jars of chutney with sweet'n'sour spices.

Pretty day at the beach

Weekend heat really prepared me to be heat resistant: we spent a lazy day at THE BEACH. Me! On a beach! Dear readers who know me IRL may be astonished, but you know people can change. My skin is tingling&glowing from the warmth and I think I got sand in my shoes.

Zlute lazne is probably the closest it gets to a mediterrean beach in Prague area with beach volley, beach bar (genuine white sand) and angry birds as in swan family with an overprotective dad. Swimming takes place in Vltava which was a bit suspicious but refreshing, I was told. On a Monday afternoon it was relatively empty and nice, started to fill up as the afternoon turned to evening. They got DJ's, summer movies showings and lots of niceties. Could go again, maybe next weekend.

Dealing with the heat, #2

 More pics from Kromeriz last weekend, even though it's effing hot it is much easier than the heat in June. Lots and lots of ice tea, shade, sunscreen, new minimal dress (no pic), fan, ice tea, home made lemonade, more ice tea... At the moment it's still +30 outside and it is 21:36 in the evening.

Weekend trip

 This was the hottest weekend so far this summer. Unluckily / luckily it was also the weekend for a trip to Olomouc and Kromeriz. Some of the trains were air-con'd, some definitely not. Guerrilla garden and cat street art in Olomouc was charming, Poets' Corner Hostel with plant-in-a-teapot was charming, the flamenco festival was charming, Tibet jazz club was charming, Kromeriz chateau and gardens were charming. And the balloon over Olomouc! Charrminngg. Sorry, my brain melted in heat, can't think of anything rational to say. But it was a nice weekend, despite of the weather.

Life, like in the movies

Last months it has been like in feature films. From The eternal beauty of spotless mind to Stranger than fiction via One hundred years of solitude (dunno if there's a film done of it).

And latest, from a specific time and specific realization a non-published movie called "The meandering pathway of wish and anticipation". We'll just have to see whether it'll turn as slapstick farce, larger-than-life drama or pure tragedy. Speculative it is, for sure. O'boy how speculative.

Airborne in dream again

Yey! Flied in my dream last night. Not very high, just above the ground surface but anyway. The trick was to lift hands into specific angle to make an aerodynamic posture. Then off we go. I could feel the wind in my face and I could look down and see the earth beneath me. Felt so good.

I also dreamt about my high school sports hall locker room, which was a place for serious makeout  a long long time ago. A need-to-know basis dream, this one.

Both dreams were lucid ones, so I realized in awe having these wonderful dreams.

Picnic at Stromovka

I wonder if it's possible ever to grow tired of having picnic?? Doubt it. It is such fun.

Today we went to Stromovka, picnic basket included cucumber salad sandwiches (and crab salad for the carnivore, grr), apricots, peaches and nectarines. And finnish salmiakki. Picnic book Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 part 3 but I have to browse 1 and 2 before moving on. The thick book doubled also as a pillow, micronapping in wild-ish nature is so cool. Notice the bubbles, there was a bublifuk too  :D