B&B Happy Goats....journal

[Baymule]

I am going to have to start getting up earlier in the morning as it's getting too hot to do anything after noon time. Even the critters shut down by noon ,goats are in shade, chickens are in their chicken pits they have dug and the dogs are inside soaking up the AC ....and leaving sand behind.
We did get the solar light up in the chicken area, the motion eye is pointed at fence height "in case" a racoon attempts to enter before the hot wire is done., just have a few more insulators to put up, run the wire and do the ground rods. The directions say to install three copper rods 6'deep....they are $30 each at TS...got to find a cheaper price, will try Home Depot or something. .....With the lightning we get here, I sure want it grounded properly.
Have a great night all....time to go play with the dogs and magnificent Mel

It only got up to 85* today. But the rains will kick in Wednesday and cool it down a little, just won't be able to go outside and play.

 

[Mike CHS]

I think I prefer Tennessee weather. At least we have a month or so of spring. You have what I saw in Pensacola for 20 years. We might have a few days in January where the temp got in the 20's then come March it was time to put the garden in.

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, come on!

 

[greybeard]

So much for getting up earlier....failed at that one, lol
Got up at 7:30 to a soggy , foggy , humid, swamp butt day.....one of thoes days when you wonder ...why on earth did I move here ?
Got chores done, watered new forrage seed and garden plants, cleaned goat house and took down nasty fly strip paper and replaced with new ones..(.that stuff sticks to your fingers and is beyond gross when full of flies) going to make brunch and see what the day brings ......ya all have a fine day

Got up and finished mowing my yard, tho all that was left was what used to be my garden area...barely beat the rain that's pouring now. It was tough mowing but if I had waited, I would have had to do it with the 6' bushog and tractor after the ground dried out who-knows-when.

Right now, and every year this time, we get a crapload of little gnats inside the house, but only noticeable in the kitchen. Probably baby flies and they congregate near the compost container (mostly used coffee grounds) and they fly up in a big cloud when I dump my morning coffee grounds in. Tiny enough to get thru the window screens. We have to hang a fly ribbon and you are right..that stuff is some kind of sticky and getting it off your fingers is a chore......directions say "soap and water cleanup". Nope. Not Dawn, not GoJo, not Tide laundry detergent or any other kind of soap or detergent I've ever tried nor alcohol. Kinda has to wear off like some of the adhesives I use when doing mechanical repairs.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

getting it off your fingers is a chore......directions say "soap and water cleanup". Nope. Not Dawn, not GoJo, not Tide laundry detergent or any other kind of soap or detergent I've ever tried nor alcohol. Kinda has to wear off like some of the adhesives I use when doing mechanical repairs.

I hate having sticky fingers - yuck. Some time back we had a tiny brown grass snake slither under the storm door in the breezeway and get stuck on a sticky trap. I used vegetable oil to get him unstuck - it worked pretty well. Don't know if it would help get sticky offa your fingers or not?

 

[CntryBoy777]

A paper towel can eliminate the sticky finger situation....or a Wally-World bag....used like a poop bag....no fuss, no muss....

 

[Baymule]

Got to love hot humid days when even the air feels like goop.

 

[Mike CHS]

I lived in Pensacola off and on for 20 years and loved the location but never got used to the heat. Our part of Tennessee get hot starting in late May but we are averaging in the low 80's until then.

 

[greybeard]

I've always believed it's a matter of where one spent their formulative years...birth to mid 20s. I was born near here, (Harris County) left when I was 17, a year in Memphis, then spent a year in SE Asia, 2 more yrs in Memphis (at which point I first lived in air conditioning) , 2 more in Cuba, 2 more in P-cola, then off the the Pacific before returning and living about a dozen years in South Louisiana. Heat & humidity still don't bother me much, nor either of my 2 sisters, but my poor wife that grew up in "quad cities" (wherever that is) is miserable here in any period other than winter.
I do admit tho, I do prefer the 5 months of very high but drier temps of West Texas over the rainy/humid weather we have here, but neither takes much of a physical toll on me.

 

[Bruce]

It's 92 degrees out, no wonder why i was hot and grumpy. ..a cool shower is a beautiful thing for sure

What are you going to do when summer comes around?