Am I The only one cooking?

[Roy and Vicky]

We're roasting here in Idaho. I run the laundry and dish washer at night as i get ready to go to bed. Everything for the past week has been made on the grill or cooked late at night for the next night to go on the grill lol.

The animals are miserable. Fryer chicks are bad enough trying to get around but in this heat it's even worse. i have them plus a calf and 4 more half grown sexlinks under trees in pens with tarps over their pens to help keep the sun off them. lots of water changes during the day to help. thankful i think w'ere out of the 90's for a day or so!

 

[Cricket]

We're steaming--temps high (for us) high humidity, thunderstorms every day. Watching the hay go by (but grateful we're not in drought). Potatoes rotted, onions are starting to, and the soil is just soup.

 

[Rocco]

*sigh*

...what I'd give for a bout of wet weather.

So dry. Again. Year after year. Texas.

Pasture baked brown. Stock tank, normally with significant amount of water in it this time of year after the Spring rains, is bone dry and has been for months.

*sigh*...another year of this.

The good news is some folks east of us got enough rain that I can buy local hay to feed the hungry mouths that reside in the various pastures.

 

[AshleyFishy]

Was about to say here in east Texas we aren't that bad off this year. Sure we are still below average on our rain fall but no were near as bad as two years ago. So far we have only had two rolling power outages! I still have grass and most of it is green still, people are cutting hay and the pig mud isn't just instantly evaporating!

However August is our worst month here so we still have a ways to go....