The heat, the drought and the smoke aside, this is also the year of hornets and wasps. We have never seen a summer such as this with no rain now since June but we have also never seen this abundance of hornets and wasps. They are everywhere. Any place there is water, such as the bird bath and the dog's water dish if full of them, both drowned and trying to drink out of them. My German shepherd, Quinn, has been a hornet chaser since day one (the fool) and she gets stung multiple times daily as she snaps at them until she catches them in her mouth. Doesn't seem to bother her though as she chews them until dead and then eats them. Watching her roll on the lawn when she gets stung is pretty funny though. The plus side is we have had zero mosquitoes.
My grass hasn't been mowed now for 2 months mainly because it isn't growing and is pretty much all brown. My new Bad Boy zero turn hasn't been used once. And we are the lucky ones as the southern areas of the province are in dire straights for the farmers. Our crops are not great but most south and east of us it's a total loss. I have wheat in my fields which is a little more resilient but barley and canola growers are cringing. Definitely a year for the record books. Hit 36 today and due to the smoke, we never saw the sun once. Hopefully this is not typical of years to come...
My grass hasn't been mowed now for 2 months mainly because it isn't growing and is pretty much all brown. My new Bad Boy zero turn hasn't been used once. And we are the lucky ones as the southern areas of the province are in dire straights for the farmers. Our crops are not great but most south and east of us it's a total loss. I have wheat in my fields which is a little more resilient but barley and canola growers are cringing. Definitely a year for the record books. Hit 36 today and due to the smoke, we never saw the sun once. Hopefully this is not typical of years to come...
