RAIN!!

Thanks be to God for a wonderful rain this past night, and even continuing on into the morning. We've gotten 6 inches so far! I think it's been steadily coming down since about 11 pm last night. There was some serious lightning around then that Mom and I went and watched, and it was still gently raining when I went out at 6:15 this morning.

Day before yesterday was a scorcher - 106F was the high. Here's the month's calendar, which shows how many hot days we've had...

A Bout of Rain!

Monnie and Ania and I went to Grand Prairie for the weekend and as we neared home on the way back, we passed through several bouts of heavy rain. Shortly after we got home, another round of lightning and rain moved in to St. Mary's.

In the end .27 inches fell, to make the monthly total 1.19 inches. A very dry month. The average monthly rainfall to date is 3 inches for July, so we're not even halfway there and the month lacks only one week to its end.

I watered Monday through Thursday this past week, because combined with the lack of rain have been the consistent triple digit temperatures the past week or so.

Here's a calendar of the month's temperature, etc. to date:

You see how we've had 14 days hit over 100F out of the first 24 of this month (today is still in progress), and the past 10 days were consecutively that high. I'm going to keep on watering in the early morning! It's 69F out right now, so I'm going to go water before the sun comes through.

At-Long-Last Update

The last in-depth news of the yard was back on May 22nd. The yard and garden beds look way different now. To begin with, the irises bowed out to make room for the Tiger lilies, which bloomed the second week of June. That week was pretty much their season - they came and went quickly.

We harvested three bunches of spinach on June 4th.