CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[CntryBoy777]

@Bruce we had a 20% chance of showers the other day when we got 3.5" and today was a 60% chance without a single drop.....go figure.
@frustratedearthmother I hope your Shower felt as good as mine did....but I still have the whiskers....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My shower was awesome! I was so dirty while I was outside that I couldn't stand myself...hair plastered to my head...feet sweating inside my rubber boots...yuckiness! I'm so much better right now! (and whiskerless, lol!)

 

[greybeard]

Meanwhile here closer to the Gulf.

Yep, you read it right.
92% humidity and 81.7 degF.
Wife and I just came in from our bicycle ride at 8:30pm. 5.2 miles this time. We're getting better every day.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That's really Good GB....I couldn't even stand still outside under those conditions.....and my days of riding a bike has well passed me by.....it is difficult getting anywhere only peddling with 1 foot....

 

[goatgurl]

how about one of those hand peddle bikes @CntryBoy777?? naaa, i'm with you that tough old Texan is going to have to bike by himself.

 

[CntryBoy777]

No new developments here to speak of, but I'm beginning to think that these ducks aren't going to hatch anything. They keep moving the nest mound and shuffling the eggs along with them except for the bottom layer of eggs. We are giving them til the end of the week and if nothing by then, we will clean out the pen and toss the eggs into the ditch....lesson learned. The way the showers have come thru here, I'm getting behind on cutting grass. The dew, with the humidity so high, keeps the grass wet til noon and the showers at noon or shortly thereafter, makes it impossible to get to cutting it. The goats are still in the process of getting comfortable with their new space and routine. We have the grandsons coming to spend a wk with us....without parents...in a couple of wks, so gotta get started preparing for that. It will only be hotter and just as humid, so I have to try and put on the "Happy Face"......PawPaw refuses to be known as an ogre by them, but I believe this will be the last yr for such summer activities for me. There has been a really big change between last yr and this yr with my ailments, so I don't see me being up to it next yr. There is still a bunch to do here, but just no energy in the "Tank" to do very much at all....sure glad I got the fence up and functioning when I did, I don't think I could make goat walk each day in this heat and humidity....just standing outside becomes rather difficult for 30-45mins. Joyce injured her shoulder last wk doing some clean-up....pulled a chest muscle using the loppers...so, she has been side-lined for a few days resting it. We both would welcome an early Fall, but certainly are not counting on it.......

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We both would welcome an early Fall, but certainly are not counting on it.......

Ditto that!!

 

[Bruce]

Ah geez Fred, I'm sorry things are going so poorly. You and Joyce rest up some. Maybe now that the fence is done your ailments won't be so aggravated.

 

[Baymule]

You know your self better than anybody, but I am hoping that it is just the heat and humidity that is dragging you down.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Thanks @Baymule .....right now....when I go outside it is hard to breathe....if ya laid on the floor....with a 50# sack of feed across your chest, it would come close to feeling what I feel with every breath.....also, the circulation isn't moving enough oxygen thru the leg muscles to oxygenize them and they start cramping like ya had done climbed Pike's Peak. I am in "Unchartered Waters", but there is a "Roar" around the bend....down the way.....guess we'll just see when I get there. The breathing and muscles are fine in the AC, so that is what has me thinking the weather is the cause....for now....