It is going to be the first of our super hot days here today. Luckily I am at home to deal with the kitties and chooks.
At 9:30 this morning I let the kitties out into the Nirvana – they LOVE the warm weather even when it is super hot. Happy found a lizard to chase right away, it found a safe hiding place pretty quickly.
It was already 31 in the Nirvana. It was 35 outside the Nirvana.
I set the chooks up with fresh cool water and added an icecube, then they got an entire punnet of just taken out of the fridge blueberries as I discovered one had burst – when that happens mould is not far off. They were extremely pleased by this turn of events.
As I was filling up the birdbath I realised there was a bit of a chicken kerfuffle going on. I put the hose on to mist to keep the girls cool, and went to investigate.
We’ve had a couple of eggs laid from the perches recently and today I found out why – the two Pekins are bullying the younger girls out of the laying boxes. We’ll need to work out a longer term solution – they will need more laying boxes in a different place – but for now I have put a couple of boxes with wood shavings out for the girls to use.
By the time I finished putting this together, changing the water for the chickens, filling up the birdbaths, watching my lovelies dustbathe and generally faffing around here, an hour had passed. It was now 34 in the Nirvana. The kitties had settled in. Happy is lying on the cooler concrete.
Grumpy is on her favourite Nirvana chair.
Today I would have posted the monthly Year Of Buying Nothing update post, but I ran out of time to put it all together. Hopefully you will see it on Monday. :)
It is heading into our busy time of year and in my new department at work I will be dealing with Christmas, which likely means working 5 days a week, so I might have to take a break from posting. We will see. I will get to wear Christmas stuff, which makes me super happy.
I’m not a hot weather fan, but it sounds like you’re keeping yourself and the animals as cool as possible. Your kitties are so beautiful!
I’m not a fan of super heated days, so when our expected 39C didn’t eventuate, I was happy enough. We made it to 33.8C instead which is still too hot for me.
I love sunshine, just not the heat that summer brings with it.
And finally cool days here. Nirvana probably doesn’t feel like nirvana at 34 degrees!