Rain

Yesterday we got up to 104.7 degrees!  Whew!  It didn't stay that hot very long, but it didn't cool down very much either.  We finally got some rain last night though.  Very much needed rain.

I have been real worried about the baby Bluebirds that are trapped inside the wooden boxes. They seem to be okay so far, but this heat is unusual and I am worried about them.

I never remember seeing the temperature get up to 100 degrees during the 30 years we lived in Tampa, Florida, but I hear they have gotten over 100 as well. Today it didn't get up to 100 and we got rain again, for the 2nd day.  We really need that rain.

Al is fighting another case of poison ivy.  He was mowing the pasture last week and thinks that's where he got it.  He is extremely sensitive to it and if he gets anywhere near it, he'll get it.  He never knows exactly where he gets it.  It seems to grow on the edge of the woods.  I have told him not to mow up to the edge of the woods, that I'll do that part, but  I don't think he listened!  He  noticed a few bumps on his legs and now he's complaining that he has the "heebie Jeebies."  That's code for I have poison ivy and I feel like hell inside and outside!  I've been giving him Benedryl but he hates to take it during the day because it makes him so drowsy.  The first summer we were here in Georgia, Al got it at least 5-6 times.  He was miserable most of the summer.  He didn't realize that weed-eating, mowing, changing the mower blades, or changing the string on the weed eater was exposing him to it.  He thought he could dress in long sleeves and not get it.  He didn't realize that the oil sticks to everything and since he's so sensitive to it, it doesn't take much.  I have often thought when he already has some of it, if he just walks near it, he'll get more.