Rain and Sunshine

Saturday I decided I'd better water the garden. It had been four days since I watered last and we had seen a lot of 90F+days. The soil in the beds were getting pretty dry. The forecast said it might rain but this summer has been weird with the forecasts. We get rain when they don't predict it and don't get rain when they do. Basically our thundershowers are widely scattered enough that you can't count on anything.

One night I went to bed with the knowledge that we would get rain. I was looking at the radar and it was a huge orange wall headed straight for us. How could we not get rain? When I got up and checked my weather station, we hadn't gotten a drop. So I looked at the radar history and saw the storm break up just west of us. That huge orange wall turned yellow then green. Then totally disappeared. No rain for us. So I've been ignoring the forecasts and just watering when it needs it. It isn't worth waiting.

The upside down garbage can is to get the sprinkler over the tall corn. Though I need to put it in the mustard bed to get it high enough.

So of course it rained on Sunday, but only a quarter of an inch so I didn't feel too bad about watering. Then Monday hit. We had flooding rains. It was 2" of rain in less than an hour. Then it all cleared out and was just hot and humid. But at least it was real rain. I might water my garden, but I don't water the grass or the foundation plantings or even my landscaped fruit trees. So I still appreciate the rain. And now this week we are going to have four days of beautiful nonhumid dry sunny days and it will get to be about 80F (27C) each day. I live for weeks like this. We haven't gotten much of this kind of weather. It is just perfect for gardening.

Or sitting outside reading and eating a snack. In not too long those will be my peaches, but until then I'll be getting them at the farmers market. At least the zucchini for the muffins came from the garden.