Good Fences on a Hot Summer Day

Far from fresh water the dogs followed me

Here's the fence I crawled under to help find water...

in a dry creek.

Lil, the oldest in this pack, not counting me,

 thought the water should be here.

Lil was walking where water used to be.

I'm not sure she trusted me to find water.

but I did!!! It was a short walk for me...a long run for them.

Every dog was thrilled.

We celebrated and thanked God for leaving us such a treasure.

We headed home.  The pack leader (me) knew some secrets the dogs didn't know. These "dry" creeks carry the run off from rain and wet weather springs but are empty when it gets really dry.  We're not REALLY dry... yet.

Joining TexWisGirl for Good Fences.

Triple Digits

and the clouds are melting.

Even the water lily hides under its own leafs.

The native fish in my water garden may be cooking.

The statues are sweating.

I believe the bottle tree may be melting

or wilting...which would it be?

The tiny Japanese lilies still smile no matter how hot it is.

Visit the wonderful photo artist and my friend, Madsnapper, 

to see how beautifully she improved my photos today.

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I've always had something to say but never thought I'd write this many posts.  That's a lot of words even for me!

What we did today was important to my peace of mind.

We played in water.

We looked under trees

and up trees

as we played in water.

We drooled with the sheer joy of it all.

How Hot Is It???

My friend is Florida has an air conditioning malfunction along with an incompetent repair man.  There may be a homicide tonight.  It is so miserable you can wear the air!

It has been that way here for almost two hard weeks with 107, 104, and 105 showing more days than I want to count.  I'm glad I did not have a thermometer in the shop.  I would have just died on the spot.

This past Saturday we received some much needed rain.  Didn't last long and may be too late for plants that have gone dormant or died but it DID rain.  We are very pleased.

Hubby and I were outside enjoying the possibility of rain when it hit. He stayed in the boat shed while I made it to the house.

We got wet.  My camera got wet and all the dear dry plants got a small but appreciated drink of water.  It was magic.  Green seemed to appear over night.

Enjoy the sound of rain, if I did this correctly.  May you all get just the amount of rain you need.

Today this is the photo I took while walking.  I imagined, because I was wondering what the chance of another rain was, that this cloud plainly says 2% chance.  May we have better odds than that.

Roses and Chain Saws...

Roses and skull

Trim and recharge with caffeine 

Another way to trim limbs you can't reach.

We cut and piled trees and branches until there was not a dry rag on us which did not take long in this weather.  Five useless trees too close to the house and miscellaneous limbs have joined a growing pile.

As TM rested I did some more digging, testing and digging and had a dry (wet) run before I put things in place permanently.

 I did a water test 

as the dogs played.

Friday

Every creature is looking for food

Every creature is looking for water.

Even the moon is looking strange

in these dry hot times.