Daisychick's *Journal* New Baby and it Moos!!!!

[Catahoula]

I pray that you both stay safe and the fires are out as soon as possible. It's horrible watching stories about it on the news, I cannot imagine living within 50 miles of those raging wildfires.

It is really a little haunting to once in a while see a piece of ash fall if the wind is just right or walk outside and it smells like a campfire. The haze from all the smoke comes and goes.

Thanks Elevan. I also pray for all the people who is fighting the fire, risking their lives. The heat is not helping either. It is 95 outside here...which means it is probably much hotter in the lower areas. I swears, the weather had become very very stranger the past few years....

Daisychick, how are the animals? Hope they can stay cool. Are there lots of trees or grass where you are? We need to do more fire mitigation around our house. It won't prevent fire but it would hopefully help redirect the fire not to come close to the house. Clearing even pine needles, small bushes near the house really helps. We learned that house usually don't just burn up but it is the small things around the house that burns and create a bigger and hotter fire which then is enough heat/fire to burn more.... Think of how you would start a campfire. A big log doesn't just start burning. It is the smaller twigs, easier to burn paper to start the fire. Then you add thicker branches and then your big log....

We also pray for rain.

 

[daisychick]

Luckily I am in a nice valley of irrigated grasslands and hay fields. But all around me are mountains. We have few fruit trees and shade trees on our land but No pine trees. So I am pretty safe from the wildfires. But the goats are sooooo hot. I bought them a mister thing and I hung it up on the fence. It keeps it a lot cooler in their pen. Goats aren't supposed to like water but mine sure do like their mister. My horse shares a fence line with them so she stands right by the mister too. I think without it they would be miserable.

Thermometer hanging on my backyard fence at noon today!

 

[elevan]

110?

I don't think I've ever been in that high of heat. I start to whine when we hit 90.

 

[daisychick]

I start to whine when it hits 80 degrees so when we get this hot I pretty much am delirious and just wander through my day like a zombie seeking out every fan and air conditioner vent I can.

 

[elevan]

I grumble at 80 but whine at 90. I would prefer 72 year round, with an appropriate amount of precipitation to keep plants growing. Don't want much, do I?

 

[autumnprairie]

I start to whine when it hits 80 degrees so when we get this hot I pretty much am delirious and just wander through my day like a zombie seeking out every fan and air conditioner vent I can.

X2

 

[daisychick]

This is my view of the most recent wildfire in Colorado. This is the Waldo Canyon Fire, it is about 40 miles away from me "as the crow flies". I can see the smoke and smell it!!

The big puffy white thing on top of the mountain is NOT A CLOUD, it is the smoke plume!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

WOW. That's crazy. Hope all is well there.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Oh wow, we have had those here many times, it gets so hot and dry in the summer and wild fires start. Hope you are all safe! I don't think we will have any this year, we are still getting soaked with rain and only mid 60's today!

 

[Catahoula]

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-...cials-responding-reports-two-small-grassfires

This one is near us...13 miles? Just finished taking some pictures of stuff we have. Sort of have an evacuate plan. Mainly grab the animals and financial stuff along with lab top and external hard drive.