Summer time blues

so we have survived our first summer in the country. It wasnt easy but we survived. The hardest part was the heat. You all now we are 100% solar powered which is really cool cause we dont have a power bill. What isnt so cool is the amount of electricity it takes to run an air conditioner or even a fan for that matter. Therefor we can only run the A/C for about an hour a day and fans are a thing of the past. When you live in the desert and 98 degrees is a cool day an hour is not even close to enough. So how do we beat the heat.....daily trips to the local swimming hole known as the "REZ" to locals and we get up at 4 am to do the yard work, water the garden, work on the barn, collect firewood for winter and go to the hills and shovel up truckloads of gravel for the driveway so we arent stranded here for the winter. All this must be done before 10 am to avoid a near fatal heat stroke. We tried to do it at night after it cools down but the bugs here are the size of volkswagons, some people have had to have blood transfusions. 
 Although the barn still only consists of 4 poles standing in the dirt, the garden never grew and we only got a handfull of sagebrush cleared from the entire 60 acres summer wasnt a complete loss. The grandkids came to visit and when they saw 60 acres of dirt they though grandma and grandma had moved to heaven...they didnt even get in trouble for getting dirty.
 We went fishing a few times, thought I caught a big one once it put up quite a fight but it was just a mosquito trying not to drown. There were lots of derbys and rodeos, and the lets not forget the fair. I blinked once so i'm sure I missed most of it but there was a fair.
 I'm sure even mayberry had a bigger fair then the little ho-down this county calls a fair.
I'm not sure how you can call 2 horses, 3 goats, 5 chickens, 1 rabbit, and 1 cow a fair but thats the extent of the animal display at the fair and as fast as they were judged the owners came and took them away....probally because they were hungry(the owners that is).
 some other highlights of the fair was a pet parade where is was hard to distinguish the pets from the owners..the jack ass was my favorite, tractor pulls with 4 different catagories and the same 90 year old farmer pulling in every one of them, dirt races where cars with big lifts and fat tires race in circles in a dirt field, a community talent show in which the person who did pig calls was voted the most talented, and a duct tape contest where people submitted items they had made out of duck tape such as a wallet, beer can holder, slippers, and glasses...i'm not sure who won. If you were to get hungry there was homemade curly fried made by sticking a potato to a craftman drill, Ice cream made by connecting a bowl with beaters to a lawn mower engine, and lemonade made by hitting lemons with a sledge hammer....and people paid to consume this stuff....and lived.  It was small and about 100 yrs out dated but it was fun who knows maybe next year I might enter one of the contests top prize is $5.00.
  Well I should probally go I have to get ready for work. Yes I finally got a job in this hillbilly town. Its not much but it gives me something to do. I work at the local hotel...there are 3 or 4 but I work at the fancy one. Around here you know its fancy when the pool didnt previously serve to hold water for cattle and every room comes equipped with a fly swatter. Oh and I get a discount on rooms if ya ever wanna come visit.....I'll let ya know when clean sheet day is lol