If finally stopped raining!  Yesterday was beautiful, clear and sunny at 72 degrees, today is looking like more of the same.  The highly accurate and fully calibrated Jetmex rain gauge nailed to the back fence says 2 inches, which brings the total for last week to 7 inches.  Now I gotta mow the damn grass again.

60 degrees here now.

Bright & shiny like a billy goats hiney this morning. 50°.

That additional 2-3 inches amounted to a half inch, but it took its sweet time adding that.

We're in a sandbox down here, so that rain took no time soaking in...

Its just wild to think we have not seen 4" of rain or equivalent in 6 months total.

We were supposed to get 2-2.5 inches.  Got 6/10's!

4 inches in the guage as of 7:00 this morning, 2-3 additional expected by 6 tonight. Watersports commencing.

Raining this morning.  Depending on which alarmed weather guesser you listen to, it's either going to be a biblical deluge or it will pass us by.  To add to that, the power has been blipping on and off since about 5 this morning, like it always seems to do when it rains.  (Add colorful expletives here) power company....

Our big scale model show is tomorrow, weather supposed to be a lot better for that!

I asked my doctor if I could administer my own anesthesia.

He said, "Sure.  Knock yourself out...."       

I just looked at the Austin radar. South part is getting 14+ inches/hour right now! The wife is in Pflugerville on the north end and only getting 1-2. Down in Luling we have partly cloudy and 70s.

Wild little ol' state, Texas...I'd sure like to will some of that north Austin rain to you, Honcho...

That stinks! Praying y'all get the rain you need.

Well we finally got some rain that would measure in the gauge, .4" its so dry it only made the dirt damp, but will help a bit. Probably too late to make the grass grow much, but will make it at least come out of dormancy which it had not so far, 1st time I can recall having leaves on trees before grass is green.

We still have not heard what our irrigation water situation will be, but the ditch company down stream across the border on our ditch said they will run 30 days, on .6 of their allocation and start on July 1st.

We have a little more water banked from last year than they do, but that means we won't get water until they come in the ditch, I suspect we will also be at .6 of a foot per share for allocation. Usually we don't have allocation at all, meaning we can order as much as the ditch will hold and when we do its usually an acre foot or so which is enough for me to irrigate as normnal. Unless we get some serious rain in there some where, probably looking at only 2 cuttings of hay.

I may be on the street corner with a sign, "will work for hay"