I am dragging the freshly scrubbed blue water trough around the yard trying to find a good place for it...to be the temporary outdoor enclosure for my baby Hermann's (this summer, and possibly next summer as well).
I think I'd like to have it on our front step...which is akin to a balcony. Convenient...I can have her out for sun when I get back from work and am making supper...easy to keep an eye out. Less likely to have an issue with a predator - but we will be making a cover regardless.
I was worried about it being too cold. Today...it is 25 C outside, and now I'm worried about it being too hot. If the temperature gun is to be believed...the bottom of the plastic...in the sun...is 45 C.
It will be different with soil in it and in the shaded areas...and with plants...and there is a breeze up on the step...but still...
I've never had a real balcony...and I've never actually spent any time on one (outside of stepping outside to admire the view and then going back into whatever apartment we were visiting)...so I don't have a feel for balcony living. I sometimes sit out on our front step, but apparently not in the sun on a 25 C day...lol.
How hot is too hot? Suggestions? Relocate?
I think I'd like to have it on our front step...which is akin to a balcony. Convenient...I can have her out for sun when I get back from work and am making supper...easy to keep an eye out. Less likely to have an issue with a predator - but we will be making a cover regardless.
I was worried about it being too cold. Today...it is 25 C outside, and now I'm worried about it being too hot. If the temperature gun is to be believed...the bottom of the plastic...in the sun...is 45 C.
It will be different with soil in it and in the shaded areas...and with plants...and there is a breeze up on the step...but still...
I've never had a real balcony...and I've never actually spent any time on one (outside of stepping outside to admire the view and then going back into whatever apartment we were visiting)...so I don't have a feel for balcony living. I sometimes sit out on our front step, but apparently not in the sun on a 25 C day...lol.
How hot is too hot? Suggestions? Relocate?