HOT!!!!

This has been one of those weeks of summer in North Carolina where you just really need to "suck it up" and bear the heat. I tell myself this is the price we pay for the otherwise mild year round climate. But it ain't easy when the heat index is 105 degrees and the window AC units in the rental house just can't keep up. When the kids go up to bed it is so hot upstairs it reminds me of summers growing up in "the little gray house on the corner" without AC. Mom use to call us down after an hour or two for a cool glass of Kool Aid! Course I can't give our kids Kool Aid, but we do bring them some ice water. They don't seem to complain, ... I suspect partly because they were used to the heat in Africa. The AC unit happens to only plug in, in an outlet in Ethan's room... so it all works out.

Because of the heat we have been laying low this week. However we did get out to our land early each morning this weekend to do some work before the day got too hot. We got a bunch of old wood and some heavy and large bedraggled piece of antique farm equipment drug out of our future garage. Shalo knocked all the old mud wasps nests down from the ceiling joists. We will level of the dirt floor and perhaps later in August haul in some crush and run for the floor. It is looking much better in there now that it is cleaned out.

Our "new "farm truck" being put to use

Sunday morning Karen and I got out our respective tractors and mowed again. Hot, Hot , Hot!!! The kids find things to play around in while we are working.

Mike on his toy tractor!

Because of the heat the garden is winding down for the summer. Tomatoes are petering out, cantaloupes are ripening. Then we should have a few weeks off until time to plant fall garden crops.

We are hoping to make final changes to house plans this week. Then we can apply for building permits and get the new house under construction... hopefully in about 5 weeks? I wish I took more pictures, need to get better at that. When I am working I forget about it. Our pet vultures are out of the barn and flying regularly overhead ! Will try to get a photo.