3 3/4" of RAIN!

last year's potato patch tilled yesterday

and then rained on!

This is a picture of mud.  I’m posting it just in case I have to have something to look at later this summer to remind me of what mud looks like.   That’s the way it has been for the last three years.  Though right now we have a chance of rain everyday in the next 10 day forecast.  Whoopee!

Let it rain.   Let it rain.   Let it rain.   

Back when I was young I was working for a farmer, an older man,  who said to me, “I’ll take mud over dust any day.”   At the time the two of us had thick mud up over the top of our boots and everything from our knees up was splattered with mud including our faces and hair.  I had so much mud on my hands that I was constantly flicking them in the air trying to remove some of the sticky stuff so that I could keep working.  I remember thinking to myself that this was not my idea of a good time.  But I also understood what he meant.  Crops and livestock grow with water.  I like living where it rains.  Especially now that I am growing fruit and vegetables for more people than just me.   After all, what I sell is water.   Every leaf on every plant in my garden, every fruit that I pluck from my plants is almost all water.  Colorful, nutritious, tasty little packets of water.    I have water enough in my well to allow me to irrigate even in dry weather.  But the plants perk up after a rain.  They like it better.   Maybe it taste better to them.

Here’s hoping I’m not talking about too much rain  and crop damage a month from now.  

But for now 

LET IT RAIN!

After three years of drought rain is a blessing.   I’m also blessed to have a granddaughter on the east coast.  Isabella is the child of my youngest son, Lee and his lovely wife, Alaina.   They are kind enough to enhance my email from time to time with pictures that put great big smiles on my face. 

If you look up adorable in the dictionary you’ll find Bella’s picture right next to the definition.