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"Mad as a wet hen" must not mean what I always thought it means.

I have assumed that it means something like: hens don't like to be wet, so if they get wet then they get really angry.

Where I live it's been grey all day and there's been a drizzly rain most of the daylight hours. Wet. Our hens have all been outside. All day. Wet.

And not a single one gives any indication of being angry.

So the saying "mad as a wet hen" must mean mad, as in crazy. Because there's nothing stopping them from going inside, except I guess that on sunnier days they don't go inside until evening. They're just a little wack-o, loopy, batty.

Next time you hear about wet hens being mad, think more along the lines of the Mad Hatter. At least if they're our hens you're hearing about.

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So for a week or so, the A/C has needed to be on when afternoon temperatures hit the upper 80s (degrees Fahrenheit). Today we are in the mid 40s (degrees Fahrenheit).
So the heat pump has switched back over to heating instead of cooling.

A lot of the lettuces and spinaches planted from seedlings last month have already started to bolt- we'll save seed from those. Meanwhile many plants have to be pulled and new seeds planted or seedlings plopped in. We were able to harvest most of the leaves before the bolt happened, so not much lost in the way of crops, but it has significantly altered our normal planting rotations and schedules. We still deliver bags of free produce for local families in need of fresh fruits and veggies- this year is going to be tough to keep up with requests if this keeps up.

If the weird weather is affecting small #Microfarms like ours this way- imagine how much it is affecting larger "small" local #Farms and even larger commercial production farms.