My lawn is cracking open.. :0(

The cats say it's too hot to sit on the outside staircase, because their bottoms frizzle..and Tigger says he won't even go out there unless his eiderdown is down on the step and he has a curtain over the staircase to shield him from the heat...I kid you not, he won't go out as he gets too hot! He's spent all today sitting inside the porch, in the shade..

And the birds are emptying their water bowl faster than I can fill it up. My mimosa tree has all but given up the ghost, nearly killed off by the icy weather and snow..and now desperate for water...She's dying by the branch, day by day...sob!   I've planted a new one, in the hope it'll grow up and mingle amongst the dead branches. I can't get the tree cut down (it's around 30foot high I'd say) because the birds sit in it all the time, and the squirrels wouldn't be able to run around the garden via all the trees, as they do now...

Wonky Weather! :0(