{"id":21481,"date":"2017-06-21T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21481"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:29:55","slug":"an-even-hotter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21481","title":{"rendered":"An even hotter day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was even hotter than yesterday. It is now the hottest June day for forty years. It’s as hot as the memorable summer of 1976. I remember it well as it was the year I did my exams.<\/p>\n

It was 95 degrees f (34.5 degrees c). My husband took a photo of the temperature gauge in his van.<\/p>\n

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Today’s temperature<\/p><\/div>\n

Mid morning Emerald was sitting in the shade where it was still damp from me soaking it last night. That gave me an idea and I took several watering cans full of water and soaked all the areas in the shade. I also soaked the inside and outside of the wooden shelter and the patio area.<\/p>\n

I thought this would keep all Emerald’s favourite, shady, areas damp and cool.<\/p>\n

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The girls all gathered in the first corner that I dampened<\/p><\/div>\n

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The girls in the foreground are busy preening<\/p><\/div>\n

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The girls gather in another dampened corner<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emerald has pins above her missing tail feathers<\/p><\/div>\n

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They have all taken turns in the damp shelter<\/p><\/div>\n

In the afternoon I gave them a dish of peas in cold water again. Emerald had her beak open once more and came straight to the dish of peas. She picked out some ice granules as well as the peas which must have helped to cool her down.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow it is forecast to cool down a bit. I like the sun but this is too hot even for me. I think we will all be glad when it cools down a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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