MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
Well-Known Member
As title really.
I'm the South West (East Devon). It is as dry as a chip here. No grass anywhere! We are feeding soaked hay, which OK we would be doing anyway as ours are on a track with ad-lib haylage during the summer months (and then in the winter they go onto standing hay).
But by golly it is the dang HEAT. Non-stop incessant heat. If you haven't done what you need to do either before 8am or after 8pm, then it just ain't gonna get done, period. It is just too hot to do any outside jobs, we're riding at 6.30am coz it is just too hot to ride later and as our horses are rehabbing currently we have to ride every day!
Sick of sweating and just feeling tired-all-the-time with the heat. Sick of the blazing sunshine which reflects back up off my concrete yard which makes it ten-times worse.
The horses have actually got it pretty good: we've got this lovely old oak tree in the middle of our 10-acre field which the three separate paddocks converge at, which means that the three horses sharing the area can meet up under the tree, each in their own separate "bit", and yet still talk to each other under the tree. It really couldn't be better. Lucky things! Meanwhile there's haynets to fill up, buckets to lug, poo to pick up, etc etc.
Can't even go shopping for anything like frozens as it will just melt on the way home if you've parked at the supermarket in a hot car!
Sleeping at night, you can just forget it, it's way too hot even with the window open. The poor dog is a rescue and she came from Cyprus so does know how to cope in a hot climate. My birds (banties & Guinea Fowls) are struggling too. I've moved the banties to a coop under the trees so they will be OK, but the Guinea's are just totally disorientated by it.
My ankles have swollen up so I'm finding it hard to get anything to put on them now. Am trying to find space to sit down and put them up. Crazy. Also I can't wear shorts and short-sleeved tops as have been bitten, not by horseflies but by these horrid little black-flies that are around at the moment; one of my livery's horses has been bitten really badly by them.
The countryside around is looking like we're well into autumn; on our ride this morning the Silver Birch trees are dropping, the oaks are turning, and everything along the grass verges is yellow-tinged.
But........ apparently the weather is set to change on Sunday?? Not that it will reverse the Autumnal process, coz it won't. But perhaps it won't be sooh darned hot??? I've been to the tropics, to Ghana in Africa, in the past, and can't say as how I felt quite so whacked from the heat there than I do now.
Can't even drink alcohol as it dehydrates too much!!
Anyone else who'll be celebrating hugely when (ohh please god!) the weather changes???
I'm the South West (East Devon). It is as dry as a chip here. No grass anywhere! We are feeding soaked hay, which OK we would be doing anyway as ours are on a track with ad-lib haylage during the summer months (and then in the winter they go onto standing hay).
But by golly it is the dang HEAT. Non-stop incessant heat. If you haven't done what you need to do either before 8am or after 8pm, then it just ain't gonna get done, period. It is just too hot to do any outside jobs, we're riding at 6.30am coz it is just too hot to ride later and as our horses are rehabbing currently we have to ride every day!
Sick of sweating and just feeling tired-all-the-time with the heat. Sick of the blazing sunshine which reflects back up off my concrete yard which makes it ten-times worse.
The horses have actually got it pretty good: we've got this lovely old oak tree in the middle of our 10-acre field which the three separate paddocks converge at, which means that the three horses sharing the area can meet up under the tree, each in their own separate "bit", and yet still talk to each other under the tree. It really couldn't be better. Lucky things! Meanwhile there's haynets to fill up, buckets to lug, poo to pick up, etc etc.
Can't even go shopping for anything like frozens as it will just melt on the way home if you've parked at the supermarket in a hot car!
Sleeping at night, you can just forget it, it's way too hot even with the window open. The poor dog is a rescue and she came from Cyprus so does know how to cope in a hot climate. My birds (banties & Guinea Fowls) are struggling too. I've moved the banties to a coop under the trees so they will be OK, but the Guinea's are just totally disorientated by it.
My ankles have swollen up so I'm finding it hard to get anything to put on them now. Am trying to find space to sit down and put them up. Crazy. Also I can't wear shorts and short-sleeved tops as have been bitten, not by horseflies but by these horrid little black-flies that are around at the moment; one of my livery's horses has been bitten really badly by them.
The countryside around is looking like we're well into autumn; on our ride this morning the Silver Birch trees are dropping, the oaks are turning, and everything along the grass verges is yellow-tinged.
But........ apparently the weather is set to change on Sunday?? Not that it will reverse the Autumnal process, coz it won't. But perhaps it won't be sooh darned hot??? I've been to the tropics, to Ghana in Africa, in the past, and can't say as how I felt quite so whacked from the heat there than I do now.
Can't even drink alcohol as it dehydrates too much!!
Anyone else who'll be celebrating hugely when (ohh please god!) the weather changes???
things are on fire, we’re in a drought and just leaving the house is miserable. I’m longing for the temps to drop by 5-10c!
