There is something inherently wrong about shifting cows, or milking or gardening with sweat running down your legs. Arms and face seem to be acceptable places for sweat. Maybe the brow, or even the belly. But the legs should be a sweat free zone in this cheap sauna we are living in at the moment. I mean – REALLY! 
Naturally the pigs always win when it comes to temperature control. And they always lie in their wallow is exactly these positions, facing West. Lined up. Waiting it out. Good piggies.
Sometimes good. 
The only one to show real suffering in the heat was Aunty Del. Once I noticed her panting, and droopy tongue we hosed her down, especially her feet. She perked up pretty quickly. Like I said yesterday it is not the temperatures it is the excessive humidity with the high temperatures that gets them.
In fact it was so humid that my camera fogged up so I had to leave it outside in the barn for the day so it was acclimatised. 
Today I take the boys up to the train but I will be back to watch over everyone by lunchtime.
Last night the thunderstorms came in about 11pm, storm after storm, more lightening, more torrential downpours, more thunder, more of everything. We lost electricity for a while but that happens in these storms. I scheduled this to post early just in case I did not get back to you.
The power is flickering wait
The Kitchen's Garden 
42 responses to “Cheap Sauna”
Ladies don’t sweat – they glow 🙂 Love that glider glad to see it is still around. Laura
I was taught thus also 🙂 !!
I was taught thus also 🙂 !
I always remember Harper Lee’s description of the ladies of Maycomb, Alabama, in To Kill a Mockingbird. melting in the summer heat like soft teacakes in their icing of sweat & talcum powder. (She didn’t say perspiration as we always said in Kentucky long ago.)
My dad always said… “Horses sweat, gentlemen perspire and ladies glow.” So yes, we’re glowing perfusely. 🙂
I know the humidity you speak of C – we lived it for 3 years in Mauritius. You can’t explain the thick air to someone unless they have experienced it.
Have a beautiful day and adore those piggies in their wallow.
🙂 Mandy xoxoxo
The piggies pic reminded me of the delightful, old Hippopotamus Song by Flanders & Swann~ Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me, follow / down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in glorious mud! <[:~D
Ha! Love it 🙂
Yup, sounds a lot like the height of the Wet in Mackay. The air is hard to breathe, stepping outside is like walking into a hot, steamy bathroom. Every garment wilts and sticks to you, nothing dries. And the rain just keeps falling…. We have a few months of that to look forward to, come November. Right now, though, it’s a balmy 26C/78F, cool at night, not much rain, and pleasant breezes. It’s called Winter! I know what you mean about sweaty legs, though, I found that bizarre when I first experienced it. I found beads of sweat standing on the backs of my hands a little strange, too!
Miss C you don’t sweat you SPARKLE! All that nighttime rain will give the garden a good soaking.
Since I left off city life working in an aircon office and living in an aircon apartment to non temperature controlled life sweat is a whole new ball game… and now travelling through dry season – winter in the north the temps are what is normally experienced for summer in the south.
Thinking cool thoughts 🚿
Ah, yes. I was thinking along the same lines yesterday afternoon while I was enjoying the Galveston Bay humidity and heat. There’s hot, there’s hot-and-humid, and then there’s the next level. I’m not sure what to call it. Wishing you cooling breezes — or at least a drop in humidity.
A friend of mine referred to it as “air you can wear”
Well its a free sauna
I don’t mind sweat on the legs arms or body – it is when you feel it running on your scalp and onto the forehead that I hate. I have been known to take the water hose and douse my head if I am outside in the teeth of it.
Oh yes I totally agree. I wear a bedraggled straw cowboy hat just to keep the sweat from running down my face. I find that if I can stop it from dripping off my nose and chin and ears that I don’t feel as desperately hot! Now I’ll be taking wagers on how long it’ll take before the hat rots away at the sweat line!
I have never found a cowboy hat big enough to fit my head comfortably – I have a really big head! c
My palms once sweat long ago after a day in the humidity and sun at an outdoor concert. I didn’t even know that was possible. Fingers crossed for some relief your way very soon.
Those warthogs look cool – no doubt that camouflage will keep the crocodiles away 😉
Ah yes…..when you drink every breath you take, it is never an easy day. But remember in the dry crack of winter, what a lovely thing that all that humidity did to your skin.
The pigs are so shiny, like they are dipped in oil. Poor Aunty, maybe she needs a walk in tub of water, or maybe a pond with little goldfish. Don’t forget to drink your water while you are watering the livestock.
Glad you are able to make the cows more comfortable with a cold footbath – helpful for humans, too!
I don’t work WELL in excessive heat, but it’s tough working at ALL when it’s humid. It’s been a challenging summer here, starting way back in May. I can count the comfortable days and have several fingers left over. Whew.