It’s Raining; It’s Pouring!
Rain! Finally! Rain!
It’s been unbearably hot and humid here, but no rain in sight, for weeks. We were 10 inches under the normal rainfall amounts for our area. But last night, finally, a storm moved in. At first it was a noisy, tantrum-throwing storm, with big flashes of lightning and loud, window-rattling thunderclaps. but then it settled down, and it’s just a nice, steady downpour. We’ve needed this so very much.
I was watering my yard in quarters: the front half of the front yard and the back half of the back yard one day, and the back half of the front yard and the front half of the backyard the next day. By the end of the second day, the sections that were watered the previous day were bone dry. So it’s been a non-stop watering bout, three hours a day for the last eight weeks. My water bill is going to be outrageous.
I’m so glad it’s raining, I don’t know what to do. It’s wonderful. And it’s the good, steady, solid downpour that will soak the ground thoroughly and really help the flora in the area get their roots back under them.