The heat here is absolutely miserable. I just don't handle it well at all. Been slugging down water all day, but the kids keep stealing my cups! They have about five or six cups SOMEWHERE! Irritates the crap out of me. Of course, THEIR cups are full of water, but I'm not drinking out of kid cups, lol. The bathroom is FINALLY ready to be painted. Washing ceilings is awful work. More like torture. I'm not a fan of washing anything, but having to have your arm in the air, wipe, rinse, repeat is just miserable. So, finally forced myself to finish it. I'm giving it a little time to dry before painting. I hope this stuff works as well as everyone says! I should get before/after pictures, though I didn't get one before I washed it, but it'll still be nice to compare, lol. I'm also back to getting baths and testing my products. I haven't done a nice candle-lit bath yet, as that still makes me a little nervous. It wasn't the candles, but still, the idea of fire around my head in that bathroom just makes me nervous now, lol. I finally finished up some soap orders, I've been procrastinating and haven't been getting a lot done around here lately. I have two more batches of soap to wrap, then all of those batches have to be labelled, but that shouldn't be too miserable. Have to go pick up some feed tomorrow as well. Was going to do it today, but they close a lot sooner than I had thought. We're also putting the AC in tonight when George gets home from prison. THAT will be awesome. Last night I couldn't sleep at all because of the suffocating heat. Other than that, I still have to get some more compost for the garden. We've been trying to top everything off to help control weeds and to help add to the nutrients. The soil is so much worse than we originally thought. It's all rocky from the old gravel driveway, plus the solid block of clay only a few inches down. The tomatoes seem to be doing alright though. I did also see some new buds on one of the banana pepper plants, and the bell peppers seem to have heard my complaints, because it seems like they grew a good bit overnight! I'm also still debating on the birds. Cornish x seem like a LOT of work to raise for meat when I can just raise a bunch of ducks, which seem to grow just as quickly, taste fifty times better and do so much better with free-ranging. I'm not super happy with the idea of Ameraucanas as my egg layers, as they aren't the best layers if I remember correctly, plus the eggs are only about medium. Even if 13/14 turn out to be pullets (the one I'm almost positive is a roo), I'm not sure that'll be enough eggs to support the family. Plus, those dumb birds aren't all that great with foraging. Even the tiny poults are doing so much better with foraging. Anyways, I really need to figure out what I'm doing, because I need to start putting birds on a diet if I'm keeping cornish x around. I plan to weigh everyone out, tag out the top ten birds, then when I go to feed, I'll either lock the tags in the room, or lock them out and everyone else in. Since I no longer plan to keep a rooster out of them, I'm not too worried about the roos being on a different diet.
Second, I don't want to have to explain to DH how I got paint on weird places 
