Hot!

Monday, August 5, 2024
Hello friends,
              HOT!  I am ready for summer to slide into fall.  The grasshoppers are flying as we crunch through the dry grass.  It’s not just hot, but actually low humidity and breezy.  That sucks the moisture out of the plants quickly.  If we don’t get some rain relief soon, we’ll have to start feeding hay, which we don’t have delivered to our farm yet.  The nightly chore of watering everything is becoming tiresome and honestly, not nearly as good as a beneficial rain.  This is typical Kansas summer weather, but I don’t like it at all.
              The dairy cows still get their ration of alfalfa and non-GMO grain, so they are not as dependent on grass as beef cows would be.  Bill takes his “Carr-y’all” loaded with provisions and the cows follow him out to lane 10 after morning milking.  That’s the lane that has a large woodsy area for them to hang out in when it’s so hot.  They are managing so far with milk production dipping just a little.  Perhaps a little higher cream content in each jar as they conserve their moisture intake and put less into fluid milk.  The chickens don’t like heat much either.  I find a tomato or two that has a bad spot and then freeze it.  They have fun pecking the tomato popsicle!  Lord send rain!….