The Cure For Earthquake Weather

That's what my grandma called it, it's what my mom called it and it's creeping me out. ...big time. It's hot out, there is not a breath of air stirring. The deer are coming down from the hill looking for something to eat or drink and there's a new squirrel I haven't met before. His ears are too big and he's giving me the hairy eyeball. I can't explain it but I feel about him the way I usually feel about clowns.
It's hot out there, 7 pm and still close to 100 degrees. I'm working and I need something cool,and frosty. I can't stop thinking about that organic green tea/watermelon juice Arnold Palmer type thingy I had this week at the brilliant Umami Burger in LA.
So, ok. I tore the city apart looking for sweet basil seeds to put in my drink. These seeds are used in Ayervedic medicine and have many healing properties. That's a bonus for me because I loved the fact that they looked like little tadpoles swimming around in my drink. I had to have them. My work meeting was sandwiched between a search for sweet basil seeds and corn smut in every corner of LA. I lived in that city for years and I was positive I'd find both items. No. Such. Luck.
Maybe I should have gone to Monterey Park, but I didn't ok..so now I'm going to have to send away for a packet of sweet basil seeds and the postage is gonna cost me more than what I'm buying. I hate when that happens. As for the corn smut, forget it. I'm not buying a can of that unless I can eyeball it. So, the search goes on.
But meanwhile, back to this frosty cool drink. Here's how it went down.

I happened to have a seedless watermelon in the fridge, and of course powdered Japanese green tea. So I made about three glasses of the iced tea. Tossed a hunk of watermelon in the blender with a dash of water to bring it to the proper consistency...mixed them up in a tall pitcher and voila! Instant Umami..almost...or at least it'll have to do until I go to LA again or they open a Umami Burger in Sonoma.If I'd had those seeds I'd have popped them in at the last minute...but I didn't.
So, now I'm ready for whatever the weather brings, I've fastened my seat belt and I'm in for a frosty evening.
As I'm thinking here, this would most likely work with any sort of melon you might have lying around the house. Just sayin'.