I brought the horses down here to Missouri yesterday. It is hot, really hot, here with temperatures right near 100 degrees. It is unbearable outside. This hot weather has apparently been like this for awhile. Everybody is complaining about it.
The inside of the house was about 95 degrees. I had the A/C off while I was gone. It took about three hours to get the house reasonably cooled down.
The horses traveled fine. It took about 11 hours. Eli and Ginger are turned out in the field right now relaxing. They are back with Bella and Madison. They have plenty of water. That is the critical thing for them right now-plenty of water. And they have access to come in and go out of the barn for shade.
I brought the cat home from Michigan too. She needed to come back with me because she cannot stay up in Michigan when I am not there. At first starting out on the drive, I had the dog in his crate then right next to him was the cat in her crate. Max (the dog) does not like the cat and he was barking and whining at her and the cat (Stripes) was howling. I wasn't going to listen to that going on right in the back seat while I drove all day. So I put the cat in her wire cage in the living quarters part of the horse trailer. The vents were open and I gave her water and she traveled there all day yesterday.
So there I was going down the highway with 2 horses, a cat, a dog, hay, grain and water. I feel like a moving farm!
The fields are really tall and need to be brush-hogged. I will do it but right now it is too hot to sit on a tractor out in the sun. They can wait till the temperatures cool down.
Here in Missouri, I wait all winter for summer so I can get out and do things and then summer comes and it is too hot to go outside. Maybe fall will be nice this year.
