We are having a heat wave....a tropical heatwave.....

​I have been trying to get farm stuff done, but the weather tends to defeat me sometimes. I need to clean out the chicken trailers, move the young layers and keep up with the donkey shedding, flies, sheep in need of shearing and MOWING MY VERY SMALL LAWN! 
This last problem would have been more manageable if I had expanded the garden and covered the area in ground cover cloth and mulch. But that will have to wait till next year. Right now the amount of garden I have is about all I can handle! 

Zorra doesn't like the heat and humidity....she tends to go down to the Addition basement and sleep in the farthest , coldest corner of the structure. She sleeps pretty soundly and when she comes back upstairs to find me she is a very CHILLY DOG!

The wet weather has also helped the explosion of the rat population! Zorra is working hard every time she goes outside and looks for her prey....but many times that elude her and  just laugh at her while she lies down and waits at a hole, hoping they will come back up. But I have noticed recently I have had two cats from the neighborhood hunting in my yard, but they wait till the loose chickens from the first barn are put away. It seems they scare the cat off  while the cats are trying to hunt!
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I admit I have not resorted to poison, but will have to in the fall once the ground starts to harden up. Otherwise Zorra will hurt herself trying to dig out their burrows. So...on life goes!