GAME ON.
When I got out of bed this morning the grass was wet and the rain was still coming––slowly, lightly, but surely. If it would last for a couple hours, we could say with confidence it would pull us from the dryness, and do so with the ideal-type rain for a garden. I got out of bed at 4:45 a.m., it's now 10 o'clock...still raining in the same, gentle way!I ran up to the garden a little while ago and the rain gauge read three-quarters of an inch. It should be near double that by now. We'll definitely need a bit more rain, but MAN, it feels good. It feels good to have rain drops on ours shoulders and mud on our boots. Boots! Something we haven't had to, or been able to, wear for over a month. It feels strangely good to know weeds will germinate and the grass will erupt, that we'll be soon be beating back nature to let us utilize our little garden, because it also means plants will perk up and the color green will return to the farm. The rain still has a lot of missed work to make up for, and it would be nice to get a few more inches over the next week or so, but the garden's wet again, so GAME ON!- Jesse.
UPDATE: 1 1/2 inches and climbing!