The Re-Farmer

Today was a much more pleasant day today. Still very humid. Kept getting rain warnings that never materialized. I didn’t end up needing to water the garden at all today, though it’ll get done again tomorrow morning. We got our stinky visitors again this morning. View this post on Instagram This time I saw four bebbies with one adult. I also so the mama with her singleton, but didn’t get…

Last night, we were expected to drop to about 17-18C/63-64F We dropped to 14C/57F It was glorious. Best sleep I’ve had in a while! I still headed out early to do the watering, after after the rest of my morning routine. While watering in the old kitchen garden, I decided it was time to remove the insect netting from the rectangular garden bed. View this post on Instagram The self seeded…

Today was another hot one, with the temperatures reaching at least 34C/93F. I don’t know what the humidex was, but the humidity levels reached 80% at one point. For all the fans and the AC going, much of the house felt like being in a sauna. … and now tomorrow is also expected to reach a high above 30C/86F, too. We continue to be under a Severe Heat Warning. Which meant I was outside early…

I was out early this morning to water and weed the garden before it got too hot, though at 6am it was 21C/70F and increasing quickly. We all stayed indoors for most of the day. My brother, however, was back out there, working on his tractor! At least it has a makeshift roof over it, so there was shade. He also discovered a bee or wasp nest inside one of the hydraulic arms! In the afternoon,…

The older I get, the less I’m able to tolerate heat. In my youth, it was the other way around. I was outside early to water the garden before it got too hot – and it was already feeling hot! I very promptly spotted a friend. View this post on Instagram What an adorable toad! We rarely see toads. Most commonly, we see wood frogs. Seeing toads is pretty rare. I don’t know that the toads…

This morning, I made sure to give the garden beds a through watering before things got too hot. I found this. View this post on Instagram On the one hand, I was happy to see another poppy blooming. On the other, I was sad to see one of the flower buds got chomped! I have a suspicion that it didn’t taste very good, or the rest would have been eaten, too. So… we’re down to just 3 Giganthemum…

So… it’s getting pretty hot out there… We’re currently under a weather advisory, due to the heat. View this post on Instagram Sunday, we’re looking at a potential high of 35C/95F. The weather warnings are saying the humidex could reach 45C/113C Ugh. Today, we “only” hit about 28C/82F, with a humidex of about 30C/86F The cats are coping pretty well out there… View this post on Instagram ……

Thanks to the generous donations from the rescue, one of the things I’ve been able to do for the outside cats is to use the freeze dried cat food powder to make a thin cat soup. Not a lot, but enough to spread around several bowls, in hopes to lure the more feral cats closer to the house. Sweetie has finally discovered this. For the past while, by the time she showed up to eat, the other cats…

So… today has turned out to be a “non” day, of recovering and staying out of the heat. I’ve been spending the time making more crochet items for the market on Saturday. At some point, I popped onto Pinterest and a random thing showed up in my feed that caught my attention. After doing my evening rounds and checking out our linden tree, I looked it up. It seems that a chocolate substitute can be…

Last night turned out to be a rough night for all of us. No one got much sleep at all. We couldn’t even blame the heat for it, as we had a decently cooler night. In my case, when I finally fell asleep, I was down so hard, I never even heard a cat knock a display off a shelf, onto the floor. Ghosty, for some reason, has been determined to climb up onto the shelf, through or over the display…

I was rather late in heading out this morning to feed the outside cats and do my morning rounds. A thunderstorm rolled in when I normally would have gone out and lasted a couple of hours. We got a lot of rain in a very short time! The upstairs window started leaking again; the same one that used to leak a lot when the snow started to melt in the winter, before we got the new roof. This is the…

We were expecting a very hot day today, so I was up early to water the garden thoroughly before things got too hot – even though we have rain in the forecast. Depending on which app I check, we’ll either get rain or thunderstorms. Just before I started writing this, our phones started going off with tornado warnings, but it looks like the system will be passing to the north of us. We might get…

But first, the cuteness! View this post on Instagram Colby is one of several cats that just love that garden bed cover. So adorable! And yes, those are garlic scapes on the netting beside him. Those are from the few garlic that are growing in the wattle weave bed. More on that later. Today was our first market day at the large animal rescue. My younger daughter and I loaded up the cab of the…