Summer Days

The one thing that is good about hot summer days is my garden loves it. When I went out to water this morning, everything looks like it grew over night. My pumpkins are blooming. This picture is from the area that I planted Jack be little pumpkins.

I just love the way they look in the early morning sun. They just seem to glow. Lots of bees were out this morning and they were not happy about the giant getting in the way of the work.

Yesterday I was sitting and watching my chicks. I know this week is going to be really hot and I was trying to think of how to juggle animals and keep them cool. The cage that my chicks are using is a old rabbit hutch cage. In the summer I put the bunny in there and put in under the shade in the yard with damp towels on the cage. He had decided he doesn't like ice bottles anymore so that is what I do. Except now it has chicks in it who are rapidly out growing the small wire cage. Every time I get chicks my chicken pens have to go through a remodel. I am not ready for that yet as I don't think the chicks are ready to be put in my small coop with my crazy Mille Fluers. As I was telling my husband he said," let me go look around my shed and see what I can find."
He came back with an old hot house we used and the shelves got used for other things and it has just been out by his shed. He also had chicken wire from all of the previous chicken house remodels and he made this.

It is bigger and roomier and I can move it from place to place on the lawn. I can put the bunny in the rabbit cage now and he is happier and my hens are just out in the yard. I spray down the pens and if they want to go in and take dust baths in the damp dirt that is okay, but they like to sit out under the trees and sit in little groups talking the day away.
They also get in my flowerbeds. When it gets really, really hot they sneak up on the porch and get up next to the house.

Our heat hasn't been that bad because even though it is over 100 the humidity isn't bad. That is going to change this week when we start getting moisture. Then we get the thunder showers over the moutains and it
really heats up down here in the valley. That is when I worry about the animals. The one good thing the water in the pool is great.

I hope all of you that have been in unbearable heat get a very nice cool down this week.
Bye for now, I have to get my housework done early today.
~Kim~