I have 1 inch in my rain gauge in Naperville! Now, with some cool weather for a few days, gardening may be fun again....
Jean

I'm so damn skippy happy I could cry!

My temp is down to SEVENTY DEGREES as I type this! High tomorrow should be 80.

Yeah, it's going to get hot again, but this tiny respite is a blessing.

If I wasn't at work, I would have been playing in the rain!! every bit helps....

We had lots of rain/thunder/ tornadoes during our county fair last week, but you know what, everyone was soooo happy to finally have rain that we didn't mind!! And the tornadoes didn't touch down where we were at, (I hope no one else was injured by them.) Even the animals seemed to be doing the happy dance for rain. We had a hard time getting fair-goers to come in from the storm, they were glad to be in the rain.

I'm glad to hear the rain has finally gotten to you folks further south. I was going around to other county fairs this week, and saw some areas that still need some rain. Their corn was all curled up still.

We had some rain relief last week here, but conditions are back to hot and dry, so it didn't last long. Mid 90's and sunny tomorrow, 97F and sunny tuesday. The grass has been like straw since early June... Our last month with more than 2" of rainfall was back in February... Chicago has 13.90" so far this year, which leaves us with a very good chance at beating our all time record low rainfall of 22.22", in 1962. Watering has just become a daily part of life here...

Chitown