Not much you can do if they don't appreciate the hose. If'n it were Rusty, you could just turn on the hose.
We should have sent you home with some trees :~)
Well, they don't mind the hose, but I wouldn't help for long, so, IMO, it might just make the times they are hot harder to bear. If they could stay wet all day, which they just about do on their own, might help, but I'm not on well water, and can't just leave it on 24/7. Besides soaking wet supposedly makes them hotter if it can't evaporate due to humidity.
The 2 days of showers we had before I left made my yard really grow back well, I'm seriously considering putting my fake hot wires back up around the yard to give them some good green grass before I mow it...Mack hates my fake wires tho:)...I just hate to "waste" all this....
Becky