June 30, 2025

The chicks were completely out of water when I went to check on them this morning. How they drank all of that in that short amount of time is beyond me, but I was able to get them some fresh water before I went to work. 

The weather is supposed to be cooler this week, and it is supposed to rain all week. I hope it does. We need it and need the temps to cool off. It has not been as bad as it normally is by this time. That is a good thing. 

May was in a whole other pen today. How or why, I have no idea, but it is confirmed, her leg is broken. Poor girl. She is moving around more. I hope she will be okay and heal up quickly. She is our oldest hen here. I have no idea how old she actually is, but she has been here since before we moved here. 

Athena was up under the tree in the front yard taking in the breeze. She has the right idea. 

On my way home, I could see the storms coming in. It was thundering and lightning all over the place. It was going to be a bad storm. 

I got home and rushed outside. I got some of the things done and then it started pouring. It poured so much every thing was flooded, including my shoes. It really was a bad storm. I got things done until I could not do anymore because I was soaked to the bone. I went inside for a few minutes and then when I thought it was going to ease up, I got the rest of it done. I did have to go inside the goat pen to get May out of there. She was getting soaked and was not trying to get up and move. I put her back in the other pen which she seemed grateful for. The animals are all surviving the storms together. They know how to get in the shelters and get out of the rain. The poor pigs, every thing is flooded in there. I about fell in their lake in the pen. I know the water will not stay long and they will be okay. 

I did check on everyone when the rain let up. They all seemed fine. Everyone is wet, but they are alive. I got so soaked through. It was not fun, but things got done. 

I did have to catch Sonny, he had string wrapped around both feet making it hard to walk at all. I was able to get that taken care of. 

June 29, 2025

I got up and found Ronnie was home, had just gotten home from working all night and was filling up water troughs. 

I found May and cleaned up her wound. I am pretty sure that leg is broken. I did make sure she had some water accessible to her, and I gave her some food. I think the goats may have eaten her food though. 

The sheep and goats looked like they were ready for the day. 

I did watch as the little chicks have decided to fly up on top of the doghouse. Looks like they are about grown. They may think they are totally grown, but they are not. A lot of kids these days think they are grown before their time when they are not yet. We all want to grow up so fast until we get there and have all the adult responsibilities.  The chicks are all doing fine, even in the heat. They look hot, but they are surviving like the rest of us. 

I gave May more food, but Cinderella ate it all. 

The horses got a new hay bale. That was good. 

The donkeys and cows were trying to get along over food, but it did not happen. It lasted longer than it normally does. 

The cats were all home being lazy due to the heat. I stayed in as long as I could.

June 28, 2025

It was hot out. You could tell just looking out the window. I did watch Mattie guarding Noma while she was laying down relaxing. 

Chigger was stepping on my toes literally. That chick goes after me every time I come into the coop. She is getting big. That is a good thing. One of the other chicks decided to get on my toes also. I guess she was watching the other one and wanted to see what that was all about. 

Poor May. I know she is hurting. She did get into the shop to relax. I feel so bad for her. I hope she feels better soon.

The chicks are all growing so fast. They are all doing well. 

The pasture goats were staying in the barn and out of the sun. 

The bigger pigs were taking advantage of using the sunshade. I do not blame them. It is so hot. The other pigs are doing fine, too. I did spray them with water, a few of them liked that, but a few of them did not. 

My husband ended up going out of town to work. As I was out and about, I could not figure out what was taking the water so long to fill up. It was too hot out to wait on all of that. Turns out his truck tire was on top of the water hose and he had the keys out of town with him. Luckily the animals had enough water to tide them over until he could get home.

I was looking for the frog living in the pig pen. He was still there. 

The pasture donkeys and goats decided to come away from the barn for some green grass. 

I have not been feeling well this week, so I tried to stay in as much as possible. I did work on some projects I had going. That was nice. 

I had seen Yeller and Onyx, but I had not seen Athena. I did finally see her as I went out for one last time to let the dogs out. 

The fireworks were going off tonight in a couple of different areas. I could see 2 different areas from my house. It was also lightning pretty good as well. 

I went to check on May one last time and found she was in the goat shelter with Tinkerbelle and Sonny was actually in there also. At least she was safe.