Summertime and the Livin is......

.....Easy?
Not around here. Our song should be "The heat is on", and I don't mean temperature. The heat would be pressure, to complete a myriad of projects with the list never getting any shorter. Kind of like pulling a weed that sprouts three more shoots the next day. We are making hay at the moment, racing the clock with a stretch of dry weather, the same game played every year. Maybe this year we will get a good crop of second cut as well... we can only hope!
Mums are planted for fall deliveries, 400 pots, ever thirsty in the sun.
There are so many projects we have to do it makes my head spin at wee hours of the morning, my only comfort is getting up and writing lists, as if somehow putting it all on paper where I can read it will help take it out of my brain so I can rest.

The animals are the only sensible ones. They casually graze when its cloudy or cooler, and in the heat of the day they lay in the cool barn, or under the poplar trees. Chickens take dust baths and cows wade slowly in the pond cooling their bellies.
I guess we need to take lessons from them and work on chilling out and not stressing out.
It will all get done eventually!