Hot and Humid

Monday, August 21, 2023
Hello friends,
              What a difference a week makes!  Last week I started morning chores with a long sleeved overshirt, this week that sounds just awful!  I don’t know how accurate our house thermometer is, but I think it’s pretty good.  We had 104 degrees and 26% humidity yesterday, and then today it was only 98 degrees, but the humidity was thick!  Argh!  We are back to watering to try to keep the flowers and garden alive.  We’ll see if we are successful.  Meanwhile, I got poison ivy, and it is miserable!
              I had so many stories to tell last week that I didn’t even tell you that we got our baby chicks.  We had ordered 35 but only ended up receiving 27.  Of course, they rightly tell us that you can’t count your chicks before they hatch, but the 10 that I really wanted were the ones that didn’t come.  It’s not like they can send them the next week.  Only one week difference in age can make a big difference in how the chicks treat each other.  There is literally a pecking order, and it can be vicious.  No, they all have to be the exact same age.  We went from a heat lamp on them last week, to a simple incandescent bulb for light only this week.  They are very cute……