Not going to do much, Kayla is staying in Cheyenne to watch the show they have planned there. It so dry here with high fire danger we won't shoot much fireworks or guns, but will do a little, its the 250th after all.

But will be mostly grumbling about irrigating which is at least something to be thankful for.

We had 2 NASA painted jets, and F15 and F18 stop in Cheyenne on the way somewhere for today. Along with a B29 "Doc" apparently. Love the sound of freedom.

 Hope everyone has a good one!

Turned out they were right, more or less, we got 6/10 by 1 PM when it quit, but had a pretty big area of thunderstorms build up and rain just before dark and picked up another 3/10 or a little more, close enough to an inch for me, and no hail. Going to make a big difference on grass at least, and weeds of course.  Kind of sucks for all the guys who had hay down, and the places that flooded and hail that smashed windows and and roofs the other day, but right here is a godsend.

Yesterday day we were in the apopcoplype, apocolips danger zone for weather, rarely will we be in the yellow much less orange shaded areas of risk, but we were yesterday, all day they warned about supercells forming, grapefruit size hail, tornadoes, flash flooding in flood prone areas etc., we got a sprinkle from a couple passing storms and some wind. Not that I'm complaining, it just felt wrong yesterday, lot of damp energy in the air which tends not to work out well. Animals and people were being idiots all day.

Today. not forecasted at all, its raining, a slow set in rain, they are saying (for what that's worth) supposed to continue until afternoon, with a high of 66 and rain totals near an inch. Yesterday the forecast said near 80 and more severe storm chance.  I'll take the latter though, an inch of rain right now may not save us all, will certainly stretch pasture and ease the feed crunch.

Hot.  96 degrees and enough humidity to put the heat index to around 105.  The backyard finally dried out.

But you're right, Stetto.  The evenings have been pretty nice once the sun gets behind the trees.  Makes me wish I had a porch to sit on.

This is such a weird year for weather, fog and light drizzle for a while yesterday morning, not enough to make it any thing but feel damp, by late after noon it burned off enough for the thunderstorms kicked off, looks like south of us a few miles got whacked again. 

Some of these storms rolling through have been monsters, baseball hail in Scottsbluff day before yesterday along with some 70 mph straight line winds

These hot,muggy texas days are well worth getting through to enjoy these phenomenal Texas evenings!

And the PuddinFace came to visit!

We had 3/10" and some quarter size hail, but not much, and I was happy to get just that!

 I finally mowed the road edge and barrow pit, which is the only thing tall enough to mow yet.

Happy Father's Day to all of you!

More rain last night and today.  The Wally World Calibrated Rain Gauge now reads a total of 8 inches (maybe a little more because it overflowed once) over the last six days.  There's still standing water in the low part of the backyard that will probably be there for another six days unless the sun comes out and burns it all off.  The weeds are loving all of this!

We are actually cooling down a bit, mid 80s for a while again, chance of thunderstorms starting Saturday.

Hay is running about 20- 25% of normal so far.

 I saw a map that showed what it would take for rain to end the drought in 30 days, we are in the 14" area, which is what we get all year normally. 

My host hit the big 4-0 yesterday trapping pocket gophers. The property looks clean an clear for the first time since I moved out here.

He used a trap called a 'gopher hawk'. I wish I had some of those when I was a kid trapping for the 60 cent bounty.

My little front yard has been invaded by meadow voles, leaving raised trails in the dirt a la the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Too shallow for gopher hawk traps, im gonna have to get inventive with Tomcat bait...