Murder hot out there.

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Just noon forty, and it is 97 outside.  At 79 inside, it's no picnic.  A side by side comparison makes inside get the vote.  The front room is mid 70's, not sure if 74 or 76, but in there.  Just walking out in there, though especially in the sun, really pounds one into the dirt.

Rabbits were fed and watered, what was needed.  They are eating far less, even drinking less.  Frozen bottles in with them.  If I can get to it, maybe a change of those this afternoon.  I haven't been handling them.  Just too hot.  Most of them now realize what the cold bottles are, and come to them.

The ducks were given another short drink, and food.  They, oddly, eat a lot more in the summer.  I don't quite get the difference.  Perhaps rabbits over heat so undereat, while the fat on the ducks allows them to compensate both for the heat and cold?  Or, maybe, the ducks find roots and such, in the spring?  And just lower their metabolism for winter?  Not exactly sure.  Though both types of ducks do it, so... it probably isn't a singular mechanics.  As the muscovys don't have the same sort of fat stores as the indian runners, and most other ducks.

Just because it walks, quacks, and otherwise acts like a duck, doesn't necessarily mean it is a duck?  Oh, oh!  But I get that one.  In any case, I sure enjoy watching the ducklings learn, play, eat, and grow.  I know some of them will end up on the dinner plate.  Another reason to enjoy their time in the sun.  Though I am sure some of them will go on to inflate the waddling of ducks.  Just a bit.  I want no more than two drakes of each type, if I don't mind six to eight hens of each type.

Yes, harsh out there.  Burning.  I am all but certain it will get to 100, and probably over.  Further, that is how it will be for... a while.  It did cool to the mid 50s, at least, last night.  But I am not sure that will be happening much anymore, in converse.  Hotter lows and highs.  I may lose some animals, just because that is how that happens.  Weather, and predation, do their thing.

I am feeling rather crushed.  It's the heat.  It makes it, to me, feel like I am in the grip of a giant, or huge snake.  The life is slowly being squeezed out of me.  Incrementally increased.  Right as soon as I think I am comfortable, it gets a bit worse.  Tunnel vision, vision closing in.  No stars being seen yet, but headed that way.  May have to turn on ac, get both fans focused, and hope that will work.  Adding the second ac if required... if able.  Bloody brutal.

Later.