Finally, some rain!

Forecasters were saying rain would return Wednesday. It came early this afternoon instead, just after leaving my shift at the county extension office where I volunteered for four hours (a total of ten hours this year so far).

It rained hard and intensely, but by the time I got home the rain had stopped, leaving small flooded pools around in the back yard. The water barrels were full, too. Although this wasn't enough rain, it's enough to keep the shrubs from going into drought stress. We won't need to spend our own water for a few days.

Hopefully we'll get rain for another month.