By Sunday afternoon, I could
see water every way I looked. It was
like living on an island, well sort of. We had a lot of rain and since my new rain
gauge is still laying here in my office, I don’t know how much we got but more
than I have seen in a long, long time. It
was the perfect rain, not hitting all at once and passing by, but it rained
most of the weekend and everything got a good soaking. I haven’t been down to the back of my swamp to
see if it actually got full but I do know it must be a lot fuller than it was
the last time I looked. With all this
rain, the TV weather people say that the drought is still not officially
broken. I am sure this weekend did a lot
to improve conditions and being a slow steady rain, it had a chance to soak in.
The tree pollen was bad
before it started to rain and the rain washed most of it out of the air and off
the vehicles. I don’t know if the trees
are still putting off pollen, but if they are, everything will be yellow again.
This is the time of year when everyone
drives a yellow vehicle (grin).
As you can see, I don’t have anything too important to
talk or wonder about, so for now I will just wish you all ado. You all have a great week now, you hear?
well, keeping the rain gauge in the box, in the house will certainty make it last longer. :-)
ReplyDeleteShoot, just put an empty dish pan out in the yard and go measure the rain with a ruler.
CA will be getting rain starting tomorrow and going on for the rest of the week. Lots of snow in the Sierras means water for everyone the rest of the year.
ReplyDeleteLoved our rain, about 1 1/2 in.
ReplyDeleteBen, I just went out and measured the amount of rain in a bucket I had left on the deck after washing the RV. It had 5.25" of rain in it.
ReplyDeleteGypsy, yep and some of that may come this way. But is will be nice for you all out there to have drinking water for the summer.
Trouble, yes I loved ours, too. Actually could use more.
so...how are the frogs? loving the water?
ReplyDeleteJill, you better believe it. They are at the top of their voice. I will post some pictures tomorrow of the swamp's status.
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