Tough time to be a wheat farmer. (I'm not one, I just grew up on and around a lot of a wheat farms.)

We've been pretty lucky. Seems like just enough rain most of the time and no damaging hail, winds, or tornadoes-knock on wood. I do feel for those who've had an overabundance. Wouldn't it be lovely if some of it came during our sure to be hot and dry August?

Oklahoma City could really use more rain. We've missed a lot that everyone else has received.

Yeah, things are looking pretty wet here. I was gone for 2 weeks and everything survived just fine, even potted plants. Looks like the next few days are going to be wet. I did manage to pick a bunch of kale this morning, and some getting-more-bitter lettuce. If it does not rain by evening, some mustard greens will be added to that process list. I have a ton of beans flowering, not sure how their production will be impacted. I am sure at some point here, the spigot will get turned off, and we will be begging for rain again.

I hope those of you who want/need rain get some, and you can have mine but you'll have to hurry down here and take it as it is just beginning to fall at our house now.

The Good: We had hit 84 degrees before noon when we still had sunny skies. Now that the rain has arrived, the temperature here has dropped to 71 degrees. In more northern parts of the county where heavy rain has fallen already, they've dropped into the mid-60s and have a Flash Flood Warning for the rest of the afternoon. The 71 degrees feels great compared to a hot and humid 84 degrees.

The Bad: The thunder and lightning drove me indoors long before actual raindrops arrived, so I didn't get everything on my Garden To Do list done, but I got most of it done. I harvested everything I could (lettuce, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, bush beans, and wild plums), so if these storms bring hail, there's nothing out there in the garden that I could have brought indoors and didn't.

Also bad, the ongoing flash flooding north of us. I expected some flash flooding with these storms, but maybe not until tonight or tomorrow. The areas flooding had rain falling at a rate of 2-2.5" per hour, though I am not sure how many hours (or minutes) of rain they've had. We've only had a brief period of light rain here so far. It was dark and thundering well to our west and northwest for a long time before I came indoors, so parts of Love County may have had some pretty good rainfall already. Well, obviously they have had substantial rain since they're under a Flash Flood Warning. The ground here is so saturated and ponds and creeks so full that it won't take much rain to flood roadways.

Most of my root crops are either harvested already or are in very high raised beds (the Irish potatoes) so even heavy rain shouldn't hurt them. Still, I'd rather be outside starting to dig the potatoes than sitting inside staring out the window at the rain.

It would be so lovely to get about an inch of rain a week year-round. Instead we go weeks without it and then get 6 or 8 or more inches in one month.

On the latest 3-day QPF, they've dropped our 4.68" to 3.99". Now, let's hope that number falls some more, or my potatoes and tomatoes will be out there in the garden scuba diving and water skiing.

Dawn

As Farming and ranching goes, yes and no. We have hay down so no we don't need the rain. Yet we do need rain before the real heat moves in. Are we hard to please or what???

we have missed all the good rains, we have just gotten the showers. That's why the hay is still laying in the fields. It just needs to rain a good rain and move on out. These little piddly showers don't do any good and just shut us down. I am very glad we have not had heavy rain. We can get some stuff done.

we pasture all our wheat out so we don't harvest any more, yea!!!! But I know what it's like to have everything ready to go to the field and here comes the rain. Still deal with it when we cut corn silage in July, only rain we get all summer. Ha ha

Spoke to soon, we are getting it now. Still missing the heavy stuff.

You would think by looking at my weather app and listening to local weather watchers that all it does here is rain rain and rain some more but it rarely pans out and that is so aggravating! However, I sat out on my patio for an hour early this morning and enjoyed a mighty good rain! And it is about time. Tomorrow's forecast calls for more rain so I'm expecting it to be hot and dry! Yes an inch per week would be lovely! Where can I put in my order??

We've had rain all around us, and tons of thunder and lightning, but we've been in a dry slot all day and the rain has almost completely missed our place. I'm thrilled about that. I'm sure it will get us tonight or tomorrow or whatever, but I'm grateful that maybe our existing puddles and mud will have a chance to dry up before more rain falls. There's tons of flooding in Texas not too far from those of us in southern OK, and even a minor mudslide in the Dallas area. I think I'd rather be here than there tonight.

I know that as soon as this cut-off low moves out of the region and takes the rain with it then we'll probably instantly be 90 or 95 degrees and hot and possibly dry for a while, and I don't care. I know rain is good, but we had 78" last year, and we are probably right at average for this year, and I'm just tired of constant mud, dew, rain, mist, fog and clouds. I think mostly I am starved for actual sunshine. You know, I spend a lot more years in drought than in heavy rainfall, and I'm used to drought and used to dealing with it (though I certainly don't exactly like it) and being drippy wet all the time makes me uneasy as it causes a lot of fungal and bacterial diseases on the plants that we normally don't have to deal with.

Of course we're hard to please. We're human beings. lol. We want rain when we want it and don't want it when it isn't convenient for us. I doubt we're going to change.

My other rain complaint is related to the snakes. When the Red River floods as it has been recently, the rising water drives all kinds of snakes, both venomous and non-venomous, up out of the river bottom lands and onto our property. I've already had too many scary snake encounters this year and don't need more. Once the snakes move up here to higher ground, it it a long, long time before they leave and the snake population drops back to more normal levels....and, at our house, normal levels still are pretty bad.

We did prepare for this rainy spell, mowing and getting all the lawn and garden work done that we could, and I made sure I had all the food preservation supplies I need to spend several rainy days in the kitchen doing several types of food preservation. I'm going to make plum jelly while it rains today, and two kinds of sauerkraut, and I just made one batch of quick dill pickles yesterday, and started a new batch of fermented pickles yesterday to go with the batch of fermented pickles I started the day before. I bet there will be enough cucumbers to pick either today or tomorrow to make something else---maybe pickle relish, or possibly the old-fashioned bread and butter pickles with lots of sliced onions in them. So far, the only B&B pickles I've made this year have been quick pickles made with a Mrs. Wage's mix and Tim likes the homemade ones with lots of onions better than he likes the quick pickles, though he happily eats them all. Then, if it keeps raining, I'll make onion relish. Since the onions are curing in the greenhouse, I haven't been in a hurry to process any of them, but if I'm stuck indoors all day and run out of things to keep me busy, then I'll make a batch or two of onion relish.

I also intend to turn the basket of tomatoes sitting on the kitchen counter into something for dinner tonight---maybe chicken-tortilla soup or tomato-basil soup or something else. There's too many tomatoes to eat them all fresh before they get too ripe, but not enough yet for a big batch of salsa. In the constant gray, misty, foggy, cloudy skies, the tomatoes are very slow to ripen this last couple of weeks. So, I have plenty to keep me busy, but if I had my choice, I'd rather be outside in sunshine.

I can't agree with you more Okie. I had started to harvest my greenbeans Monday but my hubby invited people to my house to watch the big (sad) game so I ran out of time. This is what I got yesterday...

I lost a great deal out of this corner garden. That is actually a drainage system running alongside my yard. If you look to the right of the pic, in the middle, you can see the drainage ditch white capping.

This garden is up in the yard a bit but is halfway under. Sigh.

Yep, the last of what I had sowed is floating away.

My maters should have ripened within the next 2 weeks. I have tons. Looks like they'll taste all watery and splitting and cracking will be the order of the day. Hope you all do not get near as much as I did. It took all of 5 minutes to do this much damage.

We have been in a flood watch since sometime Wednesday morning. As of noon on Thursday we have received a whopping 0.04 inches. I blame Dawn for stealing all my rain and expect her to have 50% of it shipped to me by Friday morning.

Karen, That's a lot of rain. Too much! I feel your pain. That was my garden last year when we got about 78" for the year, in an area where the annual average is 39", our all-time record was 59.something inches, and drought years often bring us 19-28". I'm good at coping with drought, but not so great at coping with excess water since we so seldom get it. My raised beds (and I was grateful to have them) looked like islands in a sea of water for pretty much all of April,May and June, and part of the first week of July. Then the rain stopped falling for 6 or 7 weeks, so we got really dry and fairly hot anyway. At least the garden dried out and some plants survived. May was our killer month---24", so this May with about 7" was mild by comparison.

I hope your plants survive that onslaught of moisture as well as can be expected. Gardening here in Oklahoma is not for sissies! There are days I wonder why we all do it, but then I realize we have to do it feed our souls, if not our bodies, and we will do it....rain or shine, hail or high water, wildfire or ice storms....we are in it for the long haul. No matter what the weather does to us, we march back into the yard and garden, save what we can, haul in soil and compost to fix whatever parts washed away, cut down or remove what cannot be saved and then we just do whatever we have to do to salvage something from the messy remains of our beautiful dreams, and we start over again....one more time. Replanting should be our motto here. Replant. Replant. Replant.

One way you might be able to save the tomatoes if they are unfit for fresh eating is to dehydrate them. We used to have a little countertop dehydrator from Wal-Mart (so it was not anything fancy) that worked great, but the last time we bought a stove, it came with a convection oven. I didn't care if it had a convection oven or not and guess I tuned out the salesman if he even mentioned that feature, and didn't learn about this next feature until we were driving home with the stove in the back of the pickup truck and I was reading the instruction manual....the convection oven has a dehydration mode, so I can dehydrate things right in my oven. Now this feature is my favorite feature of this stove and it strikes me as hilarious that we got that feature without even knowing it.

We ate a big, beautiful Vorlon tomato on BLTs last night and it was pretty bland but we ate it anyway. Even the worst home-grown tomato beats store-bought hands-down, every time.

Another way you can save them is to slice them, drain out all the excess water you can and then can or freeze them for cooking. Then, later on, when you use them in soups or pasta sauce or whatever, either add tomato powder or tomato paste to them to flavor them up. I've learned a few tricks over the years for saving cracked, watery tomatoes....even if they are ruined for fresh eating.

For what it is worth, my tomato plants survived 24" of rain last May and still went on to produce well and the tomatoes got much tastier a couple of weeks after all that rain slacked off. So, I think there may be hope for yours.

OSUengineer, I was going to laughingly tell you to get off my back because we've been in a dry slot and the rain has repeatedly missed us all week, so....you can blame Karen for stealing your rain. But, while I was typing this, the big band of rain from Texas finally arrived here. Oh my, I apologize for stealing your rain. It is here now, all one million gallons of it. And that's just what has fallen in the last 10 minutes. I'll go outside in just a minute and stand on the porch and have a chat with the rain and urge it to come visit you and to go away and leave me alone. How's that?

When I started this thread, the 3-day QPF showed my area getting 4.68" and we only got 0.20" during those 3 days. I wasn't mad because we're still wet from last week, so I was, in fact, relieved. The rest of our forecast was fairly unimpressive. Ha. What do they know. It rained pretty hard for a brief while this morning, but lighter for a longer period and we were up to 0.90" for the entire week. Now, I think we'll double that easily before today ends. Or maybe we'll triple it. The rain is falling at a scary rate and I'm watching it just pour off the roof of the house. All the chickens were free-ranging around the property before the rain started. By now they may be floating down the Red River.

If I can find a shipping carton that will hold 500,000 gallons of rainwater, I'll ship it to you, Overnight Express, so it should arrive by tomorrow. It's gonna take a big FedEx truck to transport all that water though.

Dawn

P.S. I'm going to link the radar I'm watching. It is from D-FW station WFAA and will load kinda slowly, but if you give it a minute to load and then animate, it will show you the massive storm moving our way. Looking at the small amount of rain over Love County on the radar and comparing that to what I see outside my window, it is horrifying to comtemplate how much rain may still be headed our way from Texas. I think we may get enough rain today to push us above our average June rainfall by the end of the day. That is disturbing. We still have flooded areas from last week, and we still have damaged areas in our county not fully repaired from last summer's and autumn's floods.

WFAA Radar showing North Texas Deluge Headed Into Southern OK

We've received 2.8" this afternoon in maybe a smidgen over an hour, for a total this week so far of 3.7". That first heavy band of rain has moved on and I'm in the kitchen making sauerkraut, after staring in fascination at the hardest rain we've had at our house in a long time.

At our house we're now up to 4.7" for the week, the last time I checked the gauge, so 3.8" for today. Because this rainfall is coming from rotating bands with varying amounts, the rainfall amounts in the county vary a great deal, and some folks have had a lot and others haven't. Our bar ditches, creeks and ponds are incredibly high here, and even the water rushing downhill across the front lawn had little whitecaps at times. It has been insane. Our VFDs down here at the far south end of the county have been paged out numerous times for wrecks on the interstate because blinding rain makes for poor traffic conditions.

For our county, we have a Flood Advisory, a river Flood Warning and a Flood Watch. Yep. A Flood Watch, meaning we are sitting here and watching it flood. (grin)

If anyone thinks they are headed to Lake Murray for the weekend, plan an alternate route because Scenic 77 is closed at the Lake Murray spillway as the highway is flooded.

So, we ended up getting the ridiculous amount of rain the QPF predicted, though most of it didn't fall until today and I was thinking we were going to luck out and not get flooded. I was wrong.

I'm glad most of my onions have been harvested already because this much rain at once wouldn't be good for them. The potatoes won't care much for it, but their raised beds are 2' above grade, so they should stay above the worst of the runoff that's running downhill through and underneath the garden. This is likely to spell the end of the life of the poppies for this year as they abhor soggy soil and our soil is going to be soggy for a while. Usually when this sort of rain falls at this time of year, the poppies rot off at the point where the plants emerge from the ground. There's tons of other flowers that will fill in the space vacated by the poppies.

I suppose the tomato flavor is going to be really, really, really watered down.

Dawn,

I had to smile at your response to me. It was very spot on. As I watched Tuesday and then again today, all I could think was thank god this is not last year. Like you, we had rain just like my pics every day til July 1. What I got out of my garden was a gift.

Like all good gardeners, I will be out there by Sat at the latest repairing the damage of both rains. There's just no other way is there? I am fortunate that seed companies and rose companies made errors on my orders so that I'm able to repair some of the damage. They may not bloom when they should have, but they will bloom this year. I have lost some things but on the other hand, it's a great thing that I like zinnias, lol.

I had no idea you could use a convection oven to dehydrate vegetables! My hubby is going to love you just as much as I do right now. I have one, lol. I just did not know it would do that. I suppose it does pay to read the instructions. I was going to purchase a dehydrator this year. Now, there is no need and I just saved some space. Thank you.

Thanks so much for cheering me up and hopefully, yours will turn out well too. This rain is the last for us for at least for the next week. I'm ready.

I don't know if all convection ovens have a 'dehydrate' mode, but mine does. You just keep pressing the button that runs through all the oven options like Bake, Broil, Regular Conection Baking, Warming Drawer, etc. until you get to the one that says "Dehydrate". Then, once you press Start for that mode, the convection oven comes on and you can choose any dehydrating temperature you want between 100 and 160 degrees. It is incredibly easy and I can fit a lot of food onto the oven's three shelves when I'm dehydrydating. I don't know how common it is or isn't to have a Dehydrate option with a Convection Oven Mode, but my stove was made around 2008 and it is a Bosch and it is the most awesome stove surprise ever. Now I am spoiled and will expect to have a Convection oven Mode with a Dehydrate option on any stove we buy from now on. I make a lot of sun-dried tomatos in the convection oven every year and it fills the house with the most incredible aroma. People who come into the house while it smells so tomatoey are just blown away.

I expect a lot of us will be out doing garden repairs, plant salvation, plant pruning/replacement, disease diagnosis, mulch replacement, harvesting, etc. this weekend after the rain finally moves on.

We have rain in our forecast through Saturday night, though it is a significantly lower chance that what we had today, and I'm hoping we don't get it. If it rains Saturday, I'll be out in the garden on Sunday.

All of us probably will have nice, sunny skies and high humidity this weekend and suddenly it will feel hotter than we think it should. We'll have mosquitoes, gnats, frogs and snakes. We'll still have mud and puddles. One thing is certain, as warm as it feels this weekend, it likely will feel ever warmer or even hotter 4 or 5 days from now. I suppose that if the rain misses any part of OK this week, those folks will have dust instead of mud and may be watering instead of cleaning up storm damage.

OSUengineer, I hope some of this rain makes it up there to you. We've had more than enough and are embarassed that some people here might think we are hogging the rain. As the storms circulate around the low's center tonight and tomorrow, I hope the next bands of heavy rain miss us and hit you.

Our outdoor Min-Max thermometer showed a high for today of 71 degrees thanks to all the clouds and rain. How often do we get a day in June when the high is 71? If we have to put up with excess rainfall in order to get a day like that, I guess we'll do it. Of course, I was mostly in the kitchen making sauerkraut, but I went outside long enough to walk down to the mailbox (300' from the house) to get the mail, look at all the water rushing downhill everywhere, chase the turkeys inside out of the rain, etc. Apparently the turkeys don't have the sense to go into their roofed turkey run or their nice little turkey coop and would rather just stand around in the rain and look miserable. I also discovered that if you are walking with a big umbrella, the male turkeys might interpret that as a big bunch of tail feathers and try to challenge you to some sort of turkey duel.

I wish the rain would just skip over us this week, but we seem to get rain everyday. Most days it is just a shower, but we could use some hot sunny days for a change.

Most of my garden seems to be taking the weather OK, but I have a lot of weeds. The one thing that appears to be a problem is one Lemon Oxheart tomato plant which wilts everyday. It is just really wimpy looking and if it doesn't shape up in a few days, I'm going to yank it out although it is blooming. I have 4 plants planted in a square, and the other three are some of the largest in the garden. They are four different varieties and only this one looks bad. I have other LO plants in the garden that look fine. I still have a few heads of broccoli to cut, and those that were cut earlier are making small shoots now. I saw a few heads of cabbage that look ready to cut also.

You southern Okie gardeners are talking about planting Fall crops and I don't even have all of the summer things in yet. I hope to plant some melons and some more okra, but first I need to spend a day weeding and removing a few 'spent' crops.

Carol, You know, all the oxhearts I've ever grown have the wilty gene and look like crap half the time. I'm forever looking at them and thinking "what in the world is wrong with you?" and then I realize it is an oxheart and wilty looking, wimpy looking foliage is normal for it. If that's the kind of wilty look it has to it, that's normal. Maybe this plant is just slower than the others and will shape up soon. My Kim's Civil War Oxheart plants looked worse than anything else in the garden until one day they just shaped up and got over it. I don't know if they had a root issue or whatever, but finally they look about as good as anything else.

I planted too much cabbage this year (specifically because I wanted to make a lot of sauerkraut) and I finally have harvested the last of the cabbage and my long cabbage shredding/sauerkraut making nightmare is going to end today. I'm glad I have made it, and I've used several recipes so we have sauerkraut flavor options, but I'll be happy to not look at another head of cabbage for a few months after I finish making sauerkraut today. I love cabbage, but too much of it is still too much.

My front garden is in really great shape, other than the diseases that accompany constant wetness, but the back garden is way behind. It has been too wet to plant for virtually all of May and now, with yesterday's deluge, I don't know when I'll get it planted. I suppose it will be pretty much a fall garden, other than the sweet corn that is tasseling back there now, because by the time I get it planted, nothing in it is going to produce much of anything until late summer or early autumn. I suspect this always will be an issue in the back garden in wet years until we finally get raised, vole-proof beds built back there.

I do not have all my summer things in either, and I blame it on the rain. I only have watermelons planted in the front garden because I had a lot of Sugar Baby volunteers sprouting in one bed where I grew them last year, so I dug them up and transplanted them to another bed at the low north end of the garden. Hopefully they'll survive the rain and runoff from yesterday. I still have 5 or 6 more icebox melon varieties to get planted somewhere, somehow. The okra I had planted died so I have to replant it, and I'm way behind on planting melons and winter squash. I did notice that a commercial farm near Thackerville that always grows southern peas and muskmelons doesn't have theirs in yet either, undoubtedly due to the excessively wet May and now June weather, so at least I'm not any further behind than they are. As soon as this infernal rain stops (we had light to very light rain most of the night), which might be tomorrow, I am going to plant a lot of melon, okra and winter squash seeds in beds where onions have been harvested (I already have lima beans and southern peas in some of that space) and where I just yanked out bush beans on Wednesday as they were nearing the end of their productive period and had developed a major spider mite infestation. I probably could have left the bush beans a couple more weeks if it were not for the spider mites, but the pole beans are blooming now, which made it easier to let go of the old bush bean plans. I've been harvesting from them for 6 or 7 weeks, so they were looking pretty tired and worn out too. Oh, and since I just harvested the last dozen or so cabbage plants, there's all that space to fill up too.

In wet years, I stay so behind on planting that it seems like the line between planting the spring and fall garden has become really blurred and I feel like I plant nonstop all spring and summer long as the wet spots finally dry out. I like having rainfall, of course, and never really am hoping for drought, but it sure is easier to get the planting done when the garden isn't ankle deep in water.

Yesterday the garden was more like knee deep in runoff at the worst point and I dread seeing it this morning. Our usually quiet little tame 3-season creek usually is about 6 to 8' wide in a good year and has water maybe 2-4' deep in the summer months, except in drought years when it completely dries up. Late yesterday afternoon when I went out in light rain to check it after the heavier rain had fallen, it was a good 10-12' deep, almost out of its banks, and 30-40' wide with heavy runoff. It was crazy. If a person had fallen in that creek, I believe they would have been swept away and unlikely to survive. It is not often our creek looks like a river, but it did yesterday. Our neighbor's huge, steel water gap fencing that goes across the creek on their side of the road to allow water to flow out at times like this but to keep the cattle in was lifted up horizontally by the heavy runoff, and an elephant likely could have walked under it if not for the flooding. I don't think they had any cattle or horses in that field yesterday (great planning on their part) and I was glad to see that because livestock on the wrong side of the creek would have been trapped and unable to go anywhere else.

In a lot of ways, yesterday's runoff was worse, with only 3-4" of rain falling in a couple of hours, than last year's 12" that fell over a longer period of time in one day in May and that did horrific flooding. At least it was out here in the country. I don't know if they had damage in town like we have here.

Very close friends of ours who live a couple of miles north of us on the same road have a real mess today. Tim was talking to one of them on the phone yesterday, telling him "your driveway is gone, I don't know if Amber will even be able to get her vehicle out of your driveway, which is gone". He repeated the phrase "driveway is just gone" several times. After he got off the phone, I asked how gone it was, and he said 'it is all gone'. I cannot imagine this, as the county road guys had worked with them this spring to try to correct some long-standing drainage issues on the country right-of-way where our friends' driveway repeatedly gets washed out by heavy runoff in the bar ditches. I watched the friend of ours who worked on the bar ditches and driveway and did a lot of work to fix the problem this spring, and was really impressed with all the work he did in that area to try to fix the problem. He was out there with a road grader and other equipment when Fran and I were going to fires, I guess it was, and the driveway and bar ditches looked great after a couple of days' work. It looked so great that I thought the problem finally had been solved. Apparently not. There's a long strip of homes there that have a constant issue of that sort and no matter what anyone does to repair the mess after a very heavy rainfall, it seems like the problem recurs over and over again. There's still roadway problems here with areas not fully repaired and functioning from last year's floods, and here we are with new flooding and new damage.

And, by the way, their house was struck by lighting during the early morning storms yesterday, (but at least it didn't catch fire) so it was a bad day all around at their place. I suspect all of us will be out this weekend trying to fix the damage to all our gravel (and, for some folks, dirt and no gravel) driveways. Runoff carved gullies in our driveway and washed gravel down into the road and bar ditch, but with a couple of hours of work once the rain stops, we ought to be able to fix it pretty quickly. For some folks, the damage is so severe it might take longer to get it repaired.

It seems like rainfall here just refuses to fall in amounts that are just right. It always is feast or famine, flood or drought. If it rains again today, I hope the heavy bands miss us. We've had more than enough. At our house, we pretty much got our average June rainfall all in a couple of days time.

Dawn

Ugh. We got 0.75" more rain today and the river is at flood stage again. The ground is so wet that the chickens spent much of their day sitting on the front porch, which annoyed the cats (the usual porch sitters) to no end.

It used to be that the river flooded once every 5 or 10 years. The last two years, it floods pretty much every season but winter, sometimes multiple floods in one season. So much water is flowing into Lake Texoma as runoff that it is going up about 1.5' per day, and for a lake that is 89,000 surface acres, it takes a lot of runoff to raise the lake even a few inches, much less a foot or foot and a half a day.

I'm grateful that our rainfall is so much less than last year even though it is sort of too much all at once. I feel for all the Texas communities where major and record flooding are ongoing and many people are displaced from their homes and have lost everything. There's at least 14 reported deaths in Texas this week from flooding, which is so tragic, so I guess we should count our blessings that the same thing isn't occurring here.

I hope everyone who was hoping for and needing rain is getting some and we'd happily share ours with you if we could.

We ended up with 1 1/4" for the three days we got rain. That was plenty, now we have acres of wet oat hay to put up. It is great for the alfalfa that will be cut next week as soon as the ground firms up.

I feel for those in Texas. If you have never experienced the power of water you have no idea. It's unreal!!

my grandson and I watched rabbits playing in the shower we had after lunch. He wanted to get closer so bad but I kept him here under the porch. Ha ha

I will get the tractor mower ready for hous and days of mowing to come. That is about the only chore I really could do without.