It has been really hot around here. No rain to speak of. Mama, Granddaddy and Gran spend a lot of time watering plants and sweating. Little Guy and Sunshine spend as much time as they can in the house under the air conditioner vents. Mama went out to water her strawberry plants. She has a little patch by the pasture gate. She babies them something fierce. Little Guy thinks she's still holding a grudge from when Granddaddy killed some of them a few weeks ago. He sprayed them with weed poison. About half of Mama's strawberry plants died. Granddaddy didn't do that to his strawberry plants. Well, Buddy the bull was standing out at the gate waiting for a snack. Mama couldn't water the strawberries with him looking at her with those pitiful brown eyes. So she got him some feed and poured it over the fence and into his snack bowl. Then Blackie the cow showed up. So Mama went back and got her some feed for her snack bowl. Little Guy could see the sweat starting to gather...
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