What a pleasant sound.

[oldandslow]

I though I would post something not dealing with the doom and gloom of our today's world which is mostly what I see on this forum now. I stuck my head out of the door this morning to the sound of rain on my tin patio/carport extension roof this morning. It's just a light rain but it's rain, something that has been in scarce supply for well over a year. It's not going to break the exception drouth we have been in for months but at least it will settle the dust for a little while. This is the first morning my nose has been clear and not running for so long I've forgotten the last time it was that way. I didn't even take an allergy pill today, something else I've been doing for months. Tatum, NM. a wide spot in the road a few miles north of me, has a weather website and it keeps a record of the moisture they receive. It was 0.47 inches for the year yesterday and this morning it's up to 0.64. I hope it's the start to breaking the drouth. It would be nice to see the wild flowers blanket the prairie again and green grass for a change.

[Mule 11]

Raining at my house as well this morn. Woke up at 6 to the pinging on my wood stove cap...

[Argent 88]

It rained pretty hard here last night, but it didn't last very long.

[Doublebass73]

Raining here now.

[geezerbiker]

I wish I could send you some of our rain.  We get way too much of it...

Tony

[oldandslow]

It rained most of yesterday and was still raining when I went to bed at 11 o'clock last night. Of course I have not gotten around to turning my rain guage over so I don't know exactly how much I got. It was a slow, soaking rain and I guessed at a fat three quarter of an inch by how much was in the pan I put bird feed in. The near-by by rural standards weather station recorded .68". This gives me two things to do. Turn the rain guage right side up and hope plus mix a sprayer full of round-up as the weeds are going to be coming up in a hurry. The one up side of the drouth is the lack of winter weeds and grass this year.

It's springtime to me now. The mesquites and desert willows are beginning to leaf out and a mockingbird and and an oriole have shown up this week.

[DEACONLLB]

I have had more rain than I know what to do with I keep hoping it will dry up so I can do some work on my drive way.
Fellow across the road mowed his lawn in the rain not A  Good Idea.

Deaconllb

[Ranger99]

I'm hoping that it slacks off some
here. It's pretty sloppy in the yards
and I'm afraid my little garden stuff
will stay too saturated and screw up
the roots. 
Now,  several of the neighbors do
get out and try to mow, but they
make a crap job out of it with
everything so wet and saturated.
Not to mention making ruts.
The one dude to the south gets
out and mows at all hours and
will mow with lightning and thunder
all around. He stays higher than
2 kites and probably has no idea
that it's pouring rain or that it's
pitch dark. I saw him sitting out in
a chair in the middle of his yard
one time hitting on a bottle of
hooch and smoking a cigarette.
Must have been 95 degrees and
he's out guzzling in the full
midday sun

[Woodbridge 30-30]

Below average here in Michigan for the spring. Got a pretty good soak last night

[oldandslow]

Since it was wet I went out and massaged all the winter gopher damage with my jeep. All the tunnels should be flattened now and in a couple or three weeks I'll haul in some dirt from the back corner of the pasture and fill and level everything again. Maybe the wind will have slacked off by then and it will be warm enough that the bermuda grass will grow quickly. What I want to know is where the dirt goes from the tunnels? It always require fill after I get rid of these critters. I also found four brand new mesquite bushes and five hummingbird bushes. They each got a dose of weed-be-gone.

PS: If any of you could figuer out how to send a little of your excess rain this way everyone would appreciate it.

[Ranger99]

. . .PS: If any of you could figuer out how to send a little of your excess rain this way everyone would appreciate it.

If I only could, rest assured I surely would

It finally quit for a while here ( still intermittent)
and I can't finish a brush cleaning job like I used
to could a few years ago, I have to chip at it a little
bit at the time.  I cut quite a few more junk saplings
down, and was hauling them around to the other side,
and when I would take steps it would squish squish
squish like a mule pulling a log through a muddy field.
Now that's saturated