I just typed “How to stay in a good mood when it’s hot” on my Safari search engine. Not even kidding. I also searched “Do outside temperatures affect your mood?” YES, they do. They affect mine A LOT. I am a native Texan. I am proud to be a native Texan. HOWEVER, I am miserable during the summer months in Texas. Not just June, July, and August either. I usually start being uncomfortable in about mid-May and stay constantly uncomfortable until about the first of October. I wish I were exaggerating. It is HARD to conduct farm life with temperatures hovering constantly above 90 degrees and staying over 100 degrees for days and months on end.

The thing that I hate the most is that I sweat more than the average person. A lot more. If I go outside or work too hard or get hot while I am doing chores, I start sweating and I don’t stop sweating for hours after I come inside in order to cool down. I whine about it. I complain about it. I’m exhausted living with myself and REALLY feel sorry for my poor husband who has to hear about it every minute. He swears it is okay and I do apologize to him for being such a whiny baby when it’s hot. Hahaha!

The other HUGE issue I have is that I have skin allergies to just about everything blooming on our farm and in our garden. I am not only hot, but itch so badly it makes me want to cry at times. I told my husband I feel like I am laying in a huge ant bed sometimes and I don’t know how to find relief. It is really hard to fall asleep at night due to the itching I experience after being exposed to grass, hay, leaves, and many of our garden plants. I even wear long sleeves or long, leather gloves in the summer to help combat the issue!

We literally just sat and talked to my husband for the HUNDREDTH time about moving somewhere cooler. I feel like a traitor. Texas is my main country. The USA is next. I don’t want to leave Texas, but Mother Nature, I’m really needing you to calm down with the weather. For years in Central Texas, it’s been like a weatherman is pranking us all. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN FROM WEEK TO WEEK. Drought. Yes. Flood. Yes. Hotter than Hades. Yes. Freeze. Yes. Snow. Yes. Ice. Yes. Hail. Yes. Another Freeze. Yes. Lightning. Yes. Hot again. Yes.

I would REALLY like to stay in Texas and I REALLY love Green Acres and I REALLY want to be close to our family and friends, but it is definitely getting harder and harder to work around the weather.

So, this morning, on our one hundred and first conversation about the heat, we decided we ARE DEFINITELY staying in Texas and I need to get off of Land.com and Landwatch.com and stop looking in Northern states for relief. (Again, I’m exposing myself as a traitor to Texas here, but this is how desperate I am for relief, Folks!)

We love being so close to our children. We enjoy being only two and a half hours from our parents. We are thankful we have so many friends in Texas. We both REALLY like being native Texans.

We decided the heat is worth the inconvenience so that we can spend more time with our favorite people in the years to come. How will we manage? This morning, we decided to slim down our animal operation. That means a fire sale on the already advertised fire sale. Getting down to way fewer animals. Getting some fencing and boundaries put into place so we can enjoy ourselves more each day.

I’m looking forward to having fewer animals to care for. I’m also looking forward to October. 😉