Getting acclimated to country

[baymule]

My female Great Pyrenees leaps in the air snapping her teeth at hawks.

 

[Country homesteader]

I have no dogs but the neighbors do but the dogs aren't allowed to run!

 

[baymule]

I love my Great Pyrenees! We have our place fenced in 2"x4" non climb horse wire to help keep varmits out. Our GP's keep our sheep and chickens safe.

 

[Country homesteader]

That's what my Uncle doesn't want- keep the chickens locked up all day either in the coop or in a run.
The outdoor cats are pretty good at keeping the small varmints to a minimum, it's just the bigger flying ones that are a pain in the you know what part of the body.

 

[Country homesteader]

Yesterday got a new push mower and I LOVE IT!!!! So easy to start and use. It's a Toro, got it from the Home Depot. Well, I didn't get it- my Uncle got it!!
So far we haven't got the chicken run out back up yet but got 80-85% of the yard mowed and a couple other small projects done.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Congrats! Hope it helps ya out with all that work you have on your plate!

 

[Country homesteader]

I wish I could have made a video of my EE hen (Boo) following my Uncle around whenever he went outside. I bet if she wasn't so small still she would've jumped onto the John Deere tractor with him. I had to be outside in this heat just to distract her from him so now my shoulders are sun brunt- applied SPF 55 to any bare skin and I still got burnt. I even tried to use aloe but nope that didn't help.

I guess I'm too fair skinned to enjoy the outdoors during the day.

 

[baymule]

I buy aloe vera gel with lidocaine in the sun product section. It works for bug bites too. I wear a light short sleeved t-shirt and a long sleeved denim shirt over it when in the sun. Yes it is hot, but no more so than wearing a tank top. The sweat on the shirt act like a cooler.

 

[sumi]

Oh ouch, that looks painful! You be careful out there in the sun and cover up. I burnt like that a few times and I'm paying for it now. Best do as baymule suggested and wear shirts to protect yourself AND sunblock under, the shirts only help so much.

 

[tortoise]

I'm pale and burn easily too. I stay indoors midday, and have to ease into sun exposure very slowly in spring. I haven't burned *yet* this year. Yet.