Rain!

Yes! After days of hot, dry, sunny weather that was taking a toll on all the growing things, we got some real, measurable rainfall yesterday.

Of course, we did not get this rainfall until after A. had started the lake pump to fill the drastically depleted cistern and I had spent an hour watering everything in the garden with the pump water and A. had hauled water in buckets from the lake for the poor little trees we planted near the road recently. After all that hauling and watering and sweating and work . . . then it rained.

That Mama N. She's got a real sense of comedic timing.

But no complaints. We needed the rain, the rain arrived, and everything is perking up nicely. As soon as the sun comes back and it warms up a little, the garden will take off.

Including the weeds. But we won't think about that now.