Surviving Summer with "Showers"

Songs that come to mind: "Where have all the flowers gone?" (into the shade) and

"All the fields are brown and the skies are gray, " ( now if only the sky were gray!)

We're using every means we have to keep down the dust, the heat, the bugs. This summer is very labor intensive as , without rain, I am the rainmaker. I schedule my time away from the kennel to be late day, if at all.

For all the stress on them, the dogs are doing very well. They still come out for their free runs in the mornings, shortened, but free. We still take our trail walks, but also shortened and early before the relentless sun is too hot.

So the days are about feeding early, cleaning and filling water buckets, cleaning and filling pools, repairing tarps, moving sprinkler hoses around , hosing down dust, bathing dogs and being thankful when the sun goes down!! Ice cream is their favored late day treat.

Another wrinkle is that both of my dog food suppliers ran out. This is fully unexpected.

More of the same for the next few days, whew, enough already! Soon I'll start on rebuilding dog houses, but for now it's just summer survival.