Had to sleep.

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It was 79 up there, when I crashed.  It was 81 when I was finally able to crawl back out of bed, escaping sleep.  Not feeling the best, but didn't have a choice.  I put the fan output, the little but stronger one, right on my feet.  Which made it, oddly, too cool at times, in spite of being too hot.

Downstairs it is 75, pretty much everywhere.  Cooler, but not exactly comfortable.  It seemed suspiciously cool, even at that temp.  A check outside explains why, it is 92 in the shade.  It'll be warmer later.  I'm in a bit of trouble.  As soon as it cools off, or tomorrow morning or evening, I will attempt to set the hammock up.  It won't be of any use in the day, but, maybe, will be good later.

Then again, I haven't ever actually slept in a hammock.  I'm not sure I can.  I am generally a side sleeper.  And, even with it being cooler out there, I have to think it will be like sleeping in a compression sack.  The materials seem as if they would be hot, right until they become frigid.  Out of the frying pan, into the meat grinder... sausage press... some such?

The ducks are being fed and watered.  I try to hit them, with short bursts, two to three times a day.  Fifteen minutes or so.  Though may have to skip some, from time to time.  I reset waterers right before I crashed.  I had fallen behind on those, with the heat being what it is.

Life is definitely getting rough.  It could have been, has been, this hot earlier in the summer, even late spring.  It has definitely been worse.  Sometimes there is more of a lead in, though to be honest, this year, I really didn't need it as much as I have in the past.  Acclimatization?  Or just slightly better health?  I can't say for certain.

The switch isn't so bad, and I can handle the heat slightly better.  But it is busting my chops pretty violently.  I am running a mild fever, or that is the feel to it.  Along with other flu-like symptoms, minus nasal issue, coughing (other than dry, from being parched), and such.  Makes me wonder, does the flu cause the fever or the fever cause... at least... the other symptoms?  Come to think of it, when I crack the fever, I... that is the hard turning point.  I'm not sure how to crack this fever, light as it is, without functioning ac.

A shower might help.  But I am so weak.  Not sure I can do a shower, or right quite yet.  I still have to put bottles out for the rabbits.  I dread going out, but then, 92 with a bit of a wind out of the south isn't too bad.  It just adds to the slight sense of a fever.  Later.