Dry and Dusty
We need rain around here. The nurseries around us are watering their stock. We're watering some. Thankfully, the water for the pastures and garden comes from a well. The house is on "city" water, though. We tried the well for about a year, but it has a great deal of sulfur--not a little; a LOT. We have a water treatment system--quite extensive, but it just couldn't hang with the amount of sulfur, and we decided that what the treatment system was putting into our water may be just as bad as what the city does, so we bit the bullet and switched over after a year. Also, the treatment system--well, it was breaking down; two pumps had given out, pipes were being eaten through. Tough water around here!
Anyway, we have had about a half-inch of rain--in six...seven...maybe even eight weeks! That's the total for the entire period, and that half-inch came in spurts. We've seen a number of good showers skirt us--hard ones, sometimes, totally blotting out the hills around us. But all we get is a quick shower, at best. A friend told us they had an inch one day when all we had was a light, quick shower. A good rain lately is one that gets the sidewalk completely wet.
Our pastures are really stressed. The yard is getting brown. (Up side: no mowing in a few weeks!) Keith's talking about feeding hay--in July! Hard to believe.
Our wonderful neighbor says he has never known it to be this dry, in all his years, and that's quite a few more than us. Bad as it is now, that was encouraging to hear--that this is not a common occurrence.
Funny how our focus has shifted. Not that long ago, I'd have been thrilled with so many rain-free days--kids could play outside, swimming was a possibility (not that I ever liked taking them to "the pool"), less mowing, etc. Of course, it was nice to have rain--at night, at least. Not so anymore; we--even the kids--would love to have a good, soaking, lasting rain.
Mary Susan
Anyway, we have had about a half-inch of rain--in six...seven...maybe even eight weeks! That's the total for the entire period, and that half-inch came in spurts. We've seen a number of good showers skirt us--hard ones, sometimes, totally blotting out the hills around us. But all we get is a quick shower, at best. A friend told us they had an inch one day when all we had was a light, quick shower. A good rain lately is one that gets the sidewalk completely wet.
Our pastures are really stressed. The yard is getting brown. (Up side: no mowing in a few weeks!) Keith's talking about feeding hay--in July! Hard to believe.
Our wonderful neighbor says he has never known it to be this dry, in all his years, and that's quite a few more than us. Bad as it is now, that was encouraging to hear--that this is not a common occurrence.
Funny how our focus has shifted. Not that long ago, I'd have been thrilled with so many rain-free days--kids could play outside, swimming was a possibility (not that I ever liked taking them to "the pool"), less mowing, etc. Of course, it was nice to have rain--at night, at least. Not so anymore; we--even the kids--would love to have a good, soaking, lasting rain.
Mary Susan
posted by The Bradshaws at 2:33 PM
2 Comments:
I will pray that He will send the rain. I am glad you have a well to water the garden at least.
I hope you get blessed with a soaker soon. Dry spells or droughts do wear a person down day by day.
Tom
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