High of 93° today, 4% humidity.
Snake season is here. There have already been multiple reports from ERs about people coming in with bites. We have pit vipers, including mohave greens, in this area. Very nasty venom and quite deadly. I have seen a mohave green kill an adult donkey.
89° and 11% humidity at noon. High of 98°. Chicken delights today are pumpkin and chopped oat grass.
Some quail made a little nest under my friend's garbage can.
They are Gambel's quail. They're everywhere here. We will start seeing families running around soon.
I love their jaunty little...
96° and 9% humidity at noon. Will be 99° today.
This time of year is usually upper 70s/lower 80s. 😠
Chicken delights today are yogurt, chopped spinach, and frozen blueberries.
We're breaking all kinds of temperature records. This year we've had the earliest 100+ temps ever recorded. In April! What in the world are July and August going to be like? 😱
On the 2:00 P.M. ice run to the coop my phone overheated and turned itself off. I didn't even know that was possible...
76° and 7% humidity at 7:45 A.M. Red flag warning (high fire danger) today, rather unusual in April. We've gotten snow in April in the past. Now we're getting June in April and I do not like it. 🤬
Just finished walking the dogs. It will be 102° this afternoon so they will have to wait until...
I never thought much about humidity either until I lived where it gets down to 1%.
When you hang up clothes to dry outside, the first ones you put up are dry by the time you've finished hanging up the last of a load. It takes literally only a few minutes. If the desert is good at anything it's...
It was a little overcast and that brought the temp down to 69°. Bonus: double rainbow! No rain but I love the cooler temps. I spent some time outside lazing in the hammock with a cup of tea, watching the chooks.
I'll be reminiscing about this day next week when it's 100+ again. 😣
I wish you could send it to us! We probably won't see any rain for another four or five months. The "rainy season" here keeps getting shorter and shorter. When I moved here 25+ years ago it would begin in late June or early July. We'd get huge storms every afternoon around 3:00 or 4:00 P.M. That...
It's overcast and windy and in the mid-80s. Chicken delights today are frozen peas, sprouted wheat grass seeds, and Greek yogurt.
We've been granted a reprieve of six days from the hell temps. After that they go right back up and will stay up until November.
I'm working like a madwoman to get...
78° and 4% humidity at 8:30 P.M.
The turkey vultures are back! Nature's clean-up crew. They are migratory birds that come up from Mexico this time each year. They will return to Mexico in the winter.
The ranger said it is more than 100 years old and very healthy so it could easily live another hundred years. As of 2021 it had 78 arms, I don't know how many it has now.
Here are two others. I don't think they have names. This one is near Apache Lake which is northeast of Phoenix.
This one...
91° and 4% humidity at 2:30 P.M.
Chicken delights today are yogurt mixed with flaxseed and diced apples, and spinach leaves packed into the suet cages.
82° and 8% humidity at 10:00 A.M. Should be in the mid-90s today. I'm getting ice ready for the waterers.
I have never heard so many people complain about the weather as I have lately. It is TOO hot TOO early. A/C in March was unheard of but everyone has had theirs on for days now. We used to...