What's the temperature where you are???

[EmmaDonovan]

52° and partly cloudy at 6:45 A.M.

This is the last week of normal weather. It's going to be 90° in a week and the Hell Months will begin. Things won't be back to normal until November.

Today:

Chicken delights today are oat grass and Gala apples.

 

[Island Coppers]

Rain

37°F
3°C
Humidity 100%

please don't ask about the humidity in the chicken coop

 

[Ponypoor]

+10 during the day, +2 C at night. However, I shut off the street water supply system, which I use to pour water for the geese, inside the barn at night and drain it so that there is no water left in it. Once I was too lazy to do this, but suddenly it became -15 C at night, as a result I had to replace some of the pipes and connections.
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The water somehow managed to freeze during the night and tore the polypropylene.
Anyway, since it's already warm during the day, I can pour a big bath for the geese from the pipe instead of carrying water in buckets.
Frankly, my street water supply system is made of various free junk - most often these are leftovers and cuttings after various plumbing works, and the pipes are absolutely different - there are gray Turkish ones, there are white Russian ones, there are even rusty, but still quite viable taps, made half a century ago in the Soviet Union. There are also Italian, Chinese and even Spanish taps. Periodically, some of them break down and I replace them with others. All this is stretched in long pipes to the dwellings of geese and ducks, and in the summer I do not carry water in buckets, but pour it from the taps. It would be possible to insulate these pipes and run a heating cable through them, but I did not do this, because the distance is quite large, it would require a lot of cable and electricity. Therefore, in the winter I just carry water in buckets, pouring it into a bunch of different basins and old pots.

Water is the bane of my existence, I have either too much or too little of it. Right now its pelting down rain.

If you have sandy soil you can try to put in a sand point at the barn, so you have a water source there. It’s a type of well but you use a special pointed ‘head’ that you screw into pipes, you pound the pointed head into the ground until you find an underground water reservoir.

 

[Ponypoor]

11:00am and it’s +8C with moderate to heavy rain.

We are under a weather advisory for high wind and heavy rain.

 

[Ponypoor]

It's 70° at 11:30 A.M. Chicken delights today were blueberries and peas.

Here we go again. They're promising rain and thunder this evening.

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My friend was driving on BLM land near the Sierra Estrella Wilderness southwest of Phoenix and saw this herd of wild horses. He said there were more than a hundred of them. Lots of yearlings and foals.

I have seen wild horses before in Arizona but never a herd this big, how lucky was he? It's so quintessentially wild west. The guy in the white truck also stopped to watch them.

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BLM land is public land set aside for recreational and conservation activities, similar to crown land in Canada.

I used to see lots of Donkeys when I would visit AZ, and have gone to see them at Oatman, AZ a few times. They are very strict about your feeding them, one can buy alfalfa cubes in the local store to feed them, but you are forbidden to give them carrots apples etc. have to say there were a few I would have loved to bring home with me They are very quiet and fairly tame.

It’s a tourist trap but also quite educational. If one hasn’t been there I highly recommend it. There is also usually a play act at ‘high noon’ with actors to entertain people, they will collect money for a local childrens hospital.

 

[muddy75]

67 with rain

 

[kikiruru]

Saturday wind don’t knock me over sitting in a chair on my patio
1153a 75 or 74

 

[Ponypoor]

Saturday wind don’t knock me over sitting in a chair on my patio
1153a 75 or 74

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Windy here also. It’s the season of wind and wild temperatures up here.

 

[Ponypoor]

16:23hrs

+12C (54F) - windy, mix of sun and cloud. Chooks are enjoying being outside.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

16:23hrs

+12C (54F) - windy, mix of sun and cloud. Chooks are enjoying being outside. View attachment 4073291

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What's the gray one in the upper left corner? Is it a lavender orp?