Yesterday morning I did all my weekend chicken chores. I swept the patio, washed the food and water bowls and dug over the run. I opened all the panels to let the sun in.
In the afternoon it started to rain gently. It was so dry and dusty in the run that I thought I would leave the panels open for a bit to dampen down the run.
The next minute the rain turned into to an absolute down pour. I ran up to the run and frantically started closing up the panels. Rain was dripping into my sleeves and my wellies were soon were caked in mud. The girls looked a bit perplexed.
It is so warm at the moment that it will soon dry out. No doubt the girls will leave muddy footprints on the patio that I have just swept. It was so clean and dry one minute and wet the next.
Oh dear! It’s raining
I love the way the girls line up
Then they bunch together again
They have gone from sitting in the sun the day before to standing watching the rain the next day. That’s a typical summer here in England.
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As you said typical english weather, no two days the same.
That is so true. Today we have sunshine and rain, sometimes at the same time and black skies at times.