Beating the heat

Despite the heat, our garden is doing well. We have well water, and live over a deep aquifer, so I use the sprinkler a lot to beat the long string of 100 plus degree days.

I've set the chickens in the garden almost daily to get the bugs for us, and they did pretty good till the squash bugs hit the cukes.  I've had to hand pick the horrid creatures off the plants, but have also used some organic insecticidal soap.

One thing I have not watered is our yard. This is what the ground looks like!  We never did have the best looking grass anyway, so I'm ignoring the lawn and concentrating on keeping the flowers and veggies going. And the poor chickens.  We lost one to what we think was heat stroke. So now, we keep a sprinkler going on low in the flower beds so that they can have a place to cool off.

We thought we were going to lose this gal too.  One of the dogs got ahold of her, and chewed all the feathers off her rump.  No real damage, and I think she looks kind of jaunty with that one tail feather sticking up.

We keep the wading pool full too, mostly for Twinkle. She is very fat and very pregnant and likes to jump in the pool, lay back and relax to cool off.  I'm thinking about getting her a raft for it, she loves the one out on the lake. 

Well, the forecast says we have a few more days coming with no rain, and more heat. Kansas is typically hotter than Hades this time of year, but not quite this hot. Sugarwings has a couple of swimming lessons coming up before back to school time, I hope its not too hot to hit the pool this week!

If its too hot to play in the pool, we'll be back inside playing dress up with Twinkle again. That is how we spent a big chunk of one hot day last week.

Comments

[Lori]

Karla I have heard how hot it is in Kansas ~ we are stinkin' hot here to in Texas ~ bleh!! Your veggies look great though! My flowers are choking really bad ~

[Linda P.]

Oh me oh my hot hot hot over 100 days here, too! I'm glad the feathered and furry ones are finding some relief with water, both pooled and sprinkled! I see Sugarwings is enjoying herself some water as well. Thanks for giving us a look at some of your goings on!

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[Joy For the Journey]

So glad to have re-discovered your blog! Thanks for the great crafting inspiration :)
Sarah