Rain!

We finally got rain! If you're not in the Houston area, you may not be aware that Southeast Texas has been experiencing one of the hottest, driest summers on record. The last serious rain we got was in late April. We had a couple small rains in early May and one in June. Other than that, zippo! Doing our best Arizona imitation. Jonathan's back yard has born the brunt of it. A few bushes and most of the grass died. He started off watering, but it kept dying anyway, so he gave up on the grass in back and just watered the front and bushes. Now we are under a drought restriction and are only allowed to water twice a week.

So the good news is that Saturday we had a really good, 30+ minute downpour. We even lost electricity for a couple hours. Normally that would be annoying, but it actually seemed worth it!

The July picture is actually after the rain, so it is a bit greener than it was a few days ago. Let's hope we can back in a normal rain cycle and let our slice of nature flourish. And of course, anybody around here that relies on rain for their living, like farmers, is much worse off than us. Pray for rain!