It Is Hot and Dry!!

August 29, 2011


Another hot day in Utopia, TX!! 106° YIKES!! I hope we get some rain pretty soon. Or at least some cooler weather!!

We have had a pretty busy week. We mowed (which doesn’t take long with no rain). Then we did some watering. We can’t water much because, like everyone else who is on a city water system, we are on restrictions. I am keeping the trees alive and some of my more expensive plants and that is all.

It is interesting which plants are doing well. The Lantana is growing quite a little, but not blooming much. The Plumbago is going crazy with beautiful blooms, and has not been watered much at all. The poor Knock Out Roses that were blooming so beautifully are decimated by the deer. The deer are not supposed to like them, but when there isn’t much else to eat, they really go after them. Most everything else but the Vitex trees are getting ate or dying. I also have a couple of little paper magnolia trees, and they sure are having a hard time, even with us giving them much more water than anything else.

The garden, which was so prolific at the start of summer is not doing so well, not because of lack of water, but because of the heat. The tomatoes gave us a lot at the first of the summer but then the heat started working on them. I am going to take up 2 or 3 of them and put them in pots on the shaded porch. We will see how they do there.

This heat sure makes it hard to get all the riding done that we want to. We get up pretty early and try to get all the clients horses ridden, and then around 2 or 3 p.m. we go in and do catch up work. We would like to ride a couple of our own horses, but it is impossible. But if we can just be patient, we will get cool weather here pretty soon. It is already cool in the mornings. Hard to believe it can get from 75° to 110° in one day.

Well, stay inside as much as you can. And bring in as many pets as you can. It is too hot for them outside.