Nope, not exaggerating at all! It's too dang on hot all the time unless you are swimming. I give out frozen peaches to the chickens and frozen peas to the ducks. I usually dump and refill the duck pool mid morning and the ducks splash and play in the pool while the chickens lay in the cool moist dirty.
After thirteen years of loyalty and love. Never faltering protection. Devotion. Companionship. After thirteen years of being the best chicken herding dog and quail catcher. Thirteen long years, Titan has come to a point where we are having to make the decision to put him down. He's in so much pain every day it's just not fair. Half the time his back legs don't work. When they do he's up and going. Those days are fading fast. This will be our last few days with the big lug. We're going to fill them with love and steak dinners.
It will be hard. He was my last childhood dog and my longest companion. Here he is yesterday debating the stairs to the house. See his squat. I'll post more pictures later this week. He's the big red hound.
My whole family is making trips to see him.
The old man is just in to much pain to be selfish anymore. Took me several hours to get him up and going this morning. Ended in me getting bit because he hurt to bad to stand. I left him in his bed with breakfast and water.
All the more reason to live out in the country like we do. Our nearest town is 13 miles away and our nearest neighbor is a mile away. The only HOA we have to answer to is ourselves.
Never give up on the dream. I was retired for 5 years before we took the plunge and I can only say I wish we had been able to do it sooner. Plan and persevere and you will make it.
The thing is that most often your bad neighbor is not right next door making noise and messing up the neighborhood. We have one "questionable" neighbor whose property adjoins ours but his house is actually a couple of miles away and there is a mesquite thicket between us and him. He runs cattle on his land and they come up to the fence to investigate our birds but they are cool. I have always thought cattle were cool. Just standing around at peace with the world totally oblivious that they will someday be hamburger.
